BCI Engineers and Scientists

BCI Engineers & Scientists, Inc. (BCI) was retained to provide professional engineering services in support of the city of Tampa’s waterway management projects. This special assessment program includes design of dredging projects at various locations throughout the city including but not limited to the Westshore area and Davis Islands. The projects are partially funded by the United State Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) thereby requiring a substantial environmental enhancement element.

BCI was hired by the Lake County Water Authority to perform engineering services on Lake Beauclair, Lake Griffin, and the Clermont and Harris chain of lakes. In the Lake Beauclair project, BCI designed the navigability, habitat, and water quality of the 1,100-acre Lake Beauclair.

BCI developed a comprehensive GIS-based relational database to optimize the operation & maintenance activities of water and wastewater utilities, stormwater facilities, outfalls, and structures. BCI’s custom NPDES database currently supports operations and maintenance activities for over 3,000 facilities in 26 Florida counties.

BCI was contracted to perform environmental mapping of Brazilian Pepper (Schinus terebinthifolius) along the FDOT-maintained right-of-ways along Interstate 75 and Interstate 275 in Manatee, Sarasota, Charlotte, Lee and Collier Counties, Florida in the Fall of 2006. The mapping was performed using Trimble sub-meter GPS at 1:6000 (1”= 500’) scale.

Conducted detailed residential flood Impact evaluation of upper Kissimmee River Chain of Lakes as a result of change in regulation schedule required to support Kissimmee River Restoration and developed ARC info GIS database to locate, characterize, and dimension thousands of residential dwellings, roads, septic tanks, docks, drainage systems, and other improvements.

BCI developed a comprehensive GIS-based relational database to optimize the operation and maintenance activities of water and wastewater utilities, stormwater facilities, outfalls, and structures. BCI’s custom NPDES database currently supports operations and maintenance activities for over 3,000 facilities in 26 Florida counties.

Since May 2006, the BCI GIS staff has been using ESRI ArcObjects, Microsoft VisualBasic, and C++ to automate repetitive GIS tasks associated with watershed modeling and watershed management planning. In some cases, tasks that consumed more than eight hours, such as connecting pollutant loading spreadsheets to GIS databases, have been reduced by over 1,000 percent!  Other simple, repetitive tasks such as producing Adobe .PDF files no longer requires opening multiple ESRI map document files.

The Historical Lower St. Johns River Water and Sediment Quality Database, V-2, is a unique productspecifically designed to meet the needs of those who would like a simple method of accessing and analyzing extensive watershed data within a geographic context. The database was developed to help organize and make readily available water quality and sediment data collected by the St. Johns River Water Management District (SJRWMD) and other agencies.

GIS database support is a crucial element of a Stormwater Utility  during both the initial database  development effort and during long-term database maintenance. The City of Haines City in conjunction with Polk County and the Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD) had sufficient data resources available to establish the needed utility databases.

The BCI GIS staff have been performing aerial mapping and photo-interpretation collectively for over 20 years.  Recent projects include: aerial delineation of Brazilian Pepper in the maintained right-of-ways along Interstate 75 and Interstate 275 (FDOT1); Florida Land Use Classification (FLUCFCS) mapping for Jahna Industries; and creek and ditch network delineation for CF Industries.