Client
Southwest Florida Water Management District
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Location
Sebring, Florida
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Project Costs
$191,000
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Start Date
December 2005
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Completion Date
June 2006

Scope

BCI was selected by the City of Sebring to develop a stormwater utility that would serve to fund their stormwater program and  enable the city to comply with state and federal legislative mandates such as NPDES and TMDLs. BCI was also directed by the SWFWMD to develop a detailed citywide Watershed Management Plan for the City of Sebring. 

The plan was developed based on the Water Management District’s new guidelines and specifications for conducting watershed management plans. These guidelines were developed jointly by FEMA and the SWFWMD and require rigorous quality control and a high degree of correspondence between the GIS database/mapping element and the associated hydrologic model parameterization and connectivity.

The purpose of a Watershed Management Plan is to develop a plan that helps water managers make decisions and design planning  programs based on the information generated from the watershed evaluation. The Watershed Management Plan consisted of the following tasks: digital topographic information, watershed evaluation, hydrological modeling, flood analysis, floodplain delineation, digital flood insurance rate map (DFIRM) generation, surface water resource assessment, and alternative analysis for selection of Best Management Practices (BMPs).