- Application purpose:
- To provide awareness of areas at risk of flooding.
- Support improved decision-making for activities and development in flood prone areas.
- Reduce the cost and impact of flood events.
- Application description:
- Display flood hazard polygons on top of GeoNB base maps.
- Overlay flood polygons with DPM and GCADB.
- provide descriptions of the flood data.
- Application functionality:
- Display disclaimer.
- Search for a particular property, address, or location.
- Display flood rasters and control transparency of flood rasters.
- Display descriptions of flood data.
- Data requirements:
- ENV Flood Extent rasters from flood mapping projects. Includes current condition 5% AEP and 1% AEP, and climate change 5% AEP and 1% AEP, as well as a climate change HHWLT.
- SNB Building footprints and property map
- SNB DEM
- GeoNB base maps, DPM, GCADB
- Responsible Agency: Department of Environment and Local Government
- Issues:
- Flood data comes from two departments – DPS and ENV.
- Responsibility for aspects of flooding is split between two departments.
- Possible user confusion between DPS Riverwatch Application and ENV Flood Widget, as well as older flood information widget.
- Primary User: The public, flood responders, insurers, land use planners.
