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Davie receives state-funded flood vulnerability assessment; study identifies priority mitigation zones
Summary
Town staff and consultant Arcadus presented a state‑funded townwide vulnerability assessment that modeled 42 flood scenarios across roughly 1,500 assets, identified primary and secondary focus areas, and said the work will be used to prioritize projects and unlock state and federal resilience funding.
Britney Ze, the Town of Davie’s intergovernmental affairs coordinator, introduced Arcadus, Inc.’s final vulnerability assessment and told the council the study was funded through the Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s Resilient Florida program at no cost to the town.
Melissa Hugh, senior management consultant with Arcadus, said the assessment followed state statute and focused on flood risks — rainfall, high-tide flooding, storm surge, compound events and sea-level rise — across present-day, 2040 and 2070 time horizons. She said the project evaluated about 1,500 assets and ran 42 modeling scenarios to calculate exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity for each asset.
Hugh described a prioritization exercise that produced “focus areas” — clustered locations where aggregated critical assets score highest for mitigation need. She said Arcadus produced both primary focus areas (which exclude road assets to avoid skewing results) and secondary focus areas (which include roads), and ranked each area into three tiers for near-term, mid-term and monitoring priorities.
The consultant said the deliverables — models, maps, and data outputs — will be transferred to the town and packaged for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Hugh urged the town to use the assessment to apply for follow‑on funding and to coordinate with Broward County and neighboring municipalities to increase competitiveness for state and federal grants.
Council members asked whether the county’s list of priority projects had been overlaid on Davie’s focus areas. Hugh said that specific overlay work was out of scope for this grant but recommended county partnerships when pursuing additional funding. Council members noted a county resiliency grant round expected to be announced in early June and discussed aligning county and town priorities to leverage funding.
Next steps noted by Arcadus include final delivery of the report and data, transfer of model outputs to town staff, and using the assessment to inform the stormwater master plan, capital projects and grant applications.
The presentation closed with a short question-and-answer exchange; no formal action was required at the meeting.
