Milan LLC Consulting Engineering Firm - Flood Inundation Services

Milan Engineering can help with protecting people from any kind of unwanted flood event. The flood inundation studies that we usually perform for our clients are listed below:

• Safe Channel Capacity (SCC) maps
• 100-year floodplain maps
  • A one-hundred-year flood is a flood event that has a 1% probability of occurring in any given year. The 100-year flood is also referred to as the 1% flood, since its annual exceedance probability is 1%, or as having a return period of 100-years. We can create for you FEMA 100-years flood insurance rate maps.
• Sunny-Day (SD) dam failure flood inundation maps
• Spillway Release (SR) floodplain maps
• Threshold (TH) dam failure flood inundation maps
• Probable Maximum Flood (PMF) dam failure flood inundation maps

The main purpose of a dam failure flood inundation analysis is to reduce or eliminate impacts on humans given a specific hydraulic event regarding a dam or dams.  Specifically, the dam breach analysis considers the downstream consequences that the flood wave propagation can cause.
From an emergency action standpoint, the main product of the dam breach analysis is the cartographic representation of the flood inundation maps downstream of the dam.  During the unlikely yet tragic event of a dam failure, evacuation planning can be created to simulate the fastest and safest way to evacuate downstream residents.
In order to train people to properly react to these situations in the field, these products are necessary to have before the disaster occurs.