Storm Emergency Computer Application

About the Program

Category: Risk and Emergency Management (Best in Category)

Year: 2016

The forecasts for the 2015 El Nino storm season predicted a severe threat for flooding in San Bernardino County, compelling agencies to modernize flood management technologies. The County of San Bernardino Department of Public Works (DPW) replaced its slow manual processes and paper log records with GIS technology to create a real time computer application to provide location-based analysis, real time situational awareness, and response.