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Flood Risk Intelligence Flow:
from Catchment Management Authority to Community
Intelligence Flow: From CMA to Community
� Transformation of Flood Data to Intelligence
� Melbourne Water – VICSES Partnership
� Benefits of the Partnership in terms of Intelligence Flow
� Outline the Flood Risk Intelligence Products and Community Benefits
Transforming Data to Intelligence
data information intelligence
Transforming Data to Intelligence
data information intelligence
Melbourne
Water(Flood &
DrainageAuthority)
VICSES Community
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Transforming Data to Intelligence
DATA: Raw FactsEg. Rainfall Amounts, Flood levels or Terrain heights
INFORMATION: Processed DataEg. AEP Value, Flood Class Level or Flood Modelling
INTELLIGENCE: Interpreted InformationEg. Properties Flooded, Roads Closed or Evacuation Route
PLAN OR DECISION
Melbourne Water – VICSES Partnership
� Partnership formed between Melbourne Water and VICSES (Central Region) in 2008
� Resource allocation for Flood Emergency Planning & Community Education & Resilience outcomes
� Embedding VICSES GIS Officer within Melbourne Water to help facilitate these outcomes
� VICSES now able to focus on Flood Planning & Education in addition to Response
Flood Risk Intelligence Flow
FloodModellers
GIS &
Intelligence
Officer
Hydrologists
Community
Community
SES Officers& Volunteers
FloodInvestigators
EmergencyManagement
Officers
CommunityResilience
Coordinators
OperationsOfficers
IncidentManagement
Team Members
Data Access
� Access to Datasets as they are produced� This cuts the middle man in the data transfer process, reducing time and missed
opportunities
� Ability to combine and validate data to achieve an outcome
SES Request for Assistance
1% AEP Flood Extent
Property Target for Engagement1% AEP Flood Extent
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Purpose & Audience
� Understanding the Emergency Management Sector� The types of intelligence products used before, during and after a flood
� The user groups of these products
� What decisions these products are helping to support
� From that, knowing what data will be useful and how the data should be presented
Misleading representation
Useful representation
Experience Over Statistics
� Community will respond more to Analogies, Stories and relatable places & experiences over figures and statistics1
� Challenge is to translate statistics that are produced via the BoM & CMAs into meaningful intelligence
Anglers Tavern, Maribyrnong
Start of flooding for township
Yogi Bear, Wangaratta
Unofficial & Unintended
Flood Gauge
Historical Flood MarkerHelps the community relate
1Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking fast and slow. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Planning & Intelligence Products
Municipal Flood Emergency Plans & Maps
Planning & Intelligence Products
Catchment Schematics
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Community Education & Resilience
Local Flood Guides
Community Education & Resilience
Community Engagement Doorknocks
Community Benefits
� VICSES’s access to data helps produce better informed products and programs
� The products and education activities helps the community in turn be better informed about their flood risk
� It’s helping those that collect the data (Melbourne Water) consider what’s important in Emergency Management,
� The usefulness of including a range of scenarios into flood modelling specifications
� It’s helping those who respond and deliver the message (VICSES) to understand hydrology
� Education on flood behavior and terminology (ARIs & AEPs)
� These benefit Melbourne Water & VICSES and as a follow on the community
� Bringing together the agencies involved in flood risk intelligence, making for a smoother flow of more accurate and timely Intelligence to the community
Ross Butler: GIS Officer for VICSES Central Region [email protected]
