Disaster Preparation and Recovery

GIS technologies used in flood situations typically focus on flood prevention, but moving forward GIS technologies can also play a significant role in community flood recovery efforts after the flood protection activities have ended.

East St. Paul uses GeoStack for flood fighting efforts

In East St. Paul, an affluent community of 9,000 residents, faced flood pressures in 2011. East St. Paul began planning dyke locations and vectorizing these dykes as assets into GeoStack, where they could be intergrated with other important asset information such as parcel and property values.

With GeoStack you can:

• Define pre-flood asset status and location to provide an accurate guideline for post-flood repair, restoration, or replacement activities
• Accelerate the administrative component by automating work order generation and tracking, etc. of public asset repair, restoration, or replacement
• Facilitate the sharing of GIS information between individuals within the community and local government in real-time
• Easily integrate the public asset restoration schedules and activities of multiple internal departments and external community groups
• Reduce the time to gather data and prepare reports necessary for flood-relief funding applications