Flood Risk and Vulnerability Analysis Project - Atlantic Climate ...

Warning Systems
1. It is recommended that WRMD expend additional efforts focused on those communities
identified in the high priority group towards specific identification of risk in each
community‟s watershed, for a given flood event. This effort would benefit from the
acquisition of additional detailed spatial information to determine exactly what resources
(e.g., critical infrastructure) are at risk in each community‟s watershed, for a given flood
event. The collection of community plan and parcel data, identification of specific
damage estimates and/or flood damages modeling, and mapping of critical infrastructure
would greatly facilitate vulnerability studies for Newfoundland and Labrador. This
information, combined with efforts to model flood inundation levels and hydraulics would
not only help determine vulnerabilities, it would also guide the selection of the most
appropriate flood forecasting and/or warning system.
2. It is recommended that the WRMD conduct a thorough performance review of the
forecasting systems in place for the Humber and Exploits River basins. The main goals
of this exercise being the identification of extendable information or approaches to other
Newfoundland and Labrador watersheds, as well as the identification of data gaps in the
current forecasting systems that could be filled with additional resources.
3. It is recommended that the WRMD maintain/update the decision matrix when new
information becomes available which has founded the prioritization of communities that
could benefit from a Flood Forecasting / Flood Warning System.
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