2025 UK/Europe TUFLOW Conference

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Prof. Anusha Shah is the immediate past President of the Institution of Civil Engineers. She is only the third woman and first person of colour to have held this post in over 205 years of the Institution’s history.

Anusha is a Senior Director for Resilient Cities and UK Climate Adaptation Lead for Arcadis in London. A Non-Executive Director for UK Met Office, Trustee at the Green Alliance, she is a Visiting Professor at University of Edinburgh and lectures widely in many universities, including University of Oxford and Cambridge. Anusha is also a past chair of the Thames Estuary board. She has over 24 years’ experience in designing, managing and leading water, environment and wider infrastructure projects in the UK and globally.

She was honoured with Doctor of Engineering by University of East London and also Heriot Watt University for her services to climate change and with Honorary Professorship by University of Wolverhampton for Knowledge exchange and recently with Amity University in India.

She has contributed to several national and international articles and reports on water, climate change, equity and inclusion topics and has won multiple awards including UK’s Top 50 Women Engineers in Sustainability and CECA Inspiring Engineers Award.

Abstract

What kind of legacy will engineers, water and wider built environment professionals leave for future generations?

In 2023, Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) President Professor Anusha Shah put her lifelong passion for nature, social equity and sustainability at the forefront of her vision for the infrastructure industry.

Globally, we’re off-track to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Global warming is most likely to surpass 1.5C in the next decade, despite decades of warnings. We are losing biodiversity at an unprecedented rate. Humanity has taken from nature for many years. But we cannot afford to do so with impunity. The geopolitical landscape is making it harder for us to push the solutions we have devised.

Our infrastructure is complex, multifaceted and interdependent, failure of one part leads to the failure of the whole system.

The problem is getting worse and we’re running out of time.

In this keynote, Professor Shah will highlight our opportunity to lead, innovate and not only make our infrastructure resilient to present and future impacts of climate change but also re-design it and our cities in general for the benefit of all sections of our society. She will talk about the need to connect the dots using a ‘systems approach’ that requires diverse professionals working collaboratively at multiple levels.

She will highlight the connections between, climate and nature, of ecosystems and human societies. She will call on the engineers, water and built environment professionals of today and tomorrow to focus not on building assets, but connections: leading a collaborative, transdisciplinary, ethics-based movement towards system wide interventions that provide humanity with multiple benefits and restore and rejuvenate nature, rather than just do less harm to it.

The challenge ahead has never been greater. But neither has the opportunity.

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Mary has extensive experience in supporting and advising the victims of flooding during their recovery. Having been flooded herself on many occasions, she champions the effective use of Property Flood Resilience (PFR) measures and is vocally passionate about raising awareness of flood risk and PFR /Build Back Better to homeowners, communities, local authorities, government and relevant industries, including insurance and construction. Mary spends much of her time travelling around flood effected parts of the country in a ‘Floodmobile’ (a house on wheels packed full of resilience products) supporting those newly flooded in their recovery.

Mary has represented the ‘voice of the flood victim’ at government level, she appears regularly on national TV and radio during a flood event and speaks at many Flood Risk Management, national and international conferences.

Mary runs her own consultancy FloodMary.com specialising in PFR. She is the author of an eBook ‘Property Flood Resilience (PFR). Stories from homes and businesses who have made adaptations to help them recover more quickly after a flood’ Mary is the co-author of the Household Guide to PFR, & the Household Guide to Flood Recovery.
She is on the steering group of the PRF round table and spearheaded the award-winning Cumbria Property Resilience round table.

Mary was awarded an OBE for Services to the Environment in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in 2009. In Dec 2014 she was awarded a HonRICS, in recognition of her high profile for standing up for the public interest regarding flooding. Mary was also given the ‘Voice of the Customer ‘award at the CII Public Interest Awards 2015 and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of the West of England in July 2015 and was made a Hon Fellow of CIWEM in May 2017. Mary was awarded the CIWEM possibility category ’Spotlight’ award at the annual Environment Agency conference in June 2024 and was a Big Issue ‘Changemaker’ for 2025.

Abstract

Mary will highlight the appalling experience of being flooded from her own perspective, having been a victim of repeated flood events herself and those of the many people she has helped over the last 25 years. Including the distress and inconvenience of not being able to return home for an average of nine months after a flood event.

With the impact of Climate Change making flood events ever more likely, she will also explore how those at risk can better protect their homes and will provide examples of some inspirational case studies.

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David Balmforth is an independent consultant specialising in flood risk management and urban pollution control. He has extensive experience of delivering multi million pound engineering programmes in the water industry and is currently a member of an international panel advising the Singapore Government on Climate Change and Coastal Defence. He is a member of Defra’s Roundtable on Property Flood Resilience and in 2021 he completed a Government Review of Reservoir Safety following the Toddbrook reservoir incident. David is a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London and a Past President of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

A Word from Our Chair

I’m excited about being back in Bristol to chair the TUFLOW conference once more and especially given this year’s theme “the Human Element”. We all know, of course, that in everything we do, as modellers, engineers and scientists, we do for the public good. We support economic growth, we protect the environment and we defend people from floods. We are inspired by our work. But I wonder how others see that. Do the public welcome our schemes? Do other professions look to us for insight into the needs of society? Do we inspire the young?

These are challenging questions and I am not expecting them to all be answered at the conference. But what I will be seeking are the numerous nuggets of learning that will come from the wide variety of presentations. These will take us further on our journey towards those answers. I know there will be much to gather from our keynote address. But I’m also setting a challenge for all our presenters, and indeed for our delegates through the questions they ask.

No, I am not expecting us to deviate from the traditional technical elements that are central to the conference. These will always be at the heart of what we do. I just want us to understand more about how we might better engage with society and how the tools that we use might help with that. A recently completed programme of research that I have been engaged with at Imperial College has showed how we can adapt our tools to better engage with communities. Tools that focus on helping public understanding and collective decision making. How we can use these to bring the public and other stakeholders into our work cycle.

When I once asked a Swedish engineer how he got such good engagement with the public, he said “I have them working alongside me in the office”. Now there’s a thought!

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Professor Jeff Neal is Professor of Hydrology at the University of Bristol with research
interest which include the development of hydraulic models and the assimilation of observations with such models across and range of spatial scales. I also undertake research to support flood risk management, which includes work on modelling flood hazard in urban areas and methods to increase the computational efficiency of hydraulic models.

Abstract

tbc

Further details to follow shortly.

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An Associate at Buro Happold, working within the coastal and maritime and water sector for over 15 years, Simon has been part of and lead the design of a wide variety of masterplanning projects throughout his career. With his enquiring mind and deep knowledge of coastal structures, flood risk management, data analysis and numerical modelling he provides targeted support on multidisciplinary projects to help realise our clients’ aspirations.

A big part of this is using numerical models to identify key challenges and opportunities. Simon has lead the development of Buro Happold’s hydrodynamic modelling from the ground up and is always on the look out to develop things further to support a better understanding of our world.

Abstract

Understanding our world helps us as Engineers to develop better solutions for our clients and reduce risks. The use of software and tools has always been a key component of achieving this. Whether working on small or large scale coastal masterplans, there is a need to understand the coastal environment to get the right solutions. Hydrodynamic modelling enables us to understand this environment.

In this presentation I’ll take you through why Buro Happold undertakes hydrodynamic modelling, it’s history at our company and what TUFLOW FV has enabled us to do through project examples.

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Dave is a Lead Specialist Advisor in the National Flood Risk Analysis team at Natural Resources Wales, where he has spent the last 19 years working within the field of Flood Risk Mapping and Modelling.
Dave has worked extensively on the Flood Risk Assessment Wales project since 2018, and the development of the Wales Flood Maps and Check your Flood Risk by postcode products.

Abstract

The Wales Flood Maps are formed of two separate products:

• The Flood Risk Assessment Wales Map (FRAW), which shows the present day defended risk, to enable the public and professionals to understand there level of flood risk for an area.
• The Flood Map for Planning (FMfP), which shows the climate change undefended risk, to support Welsh Government policy on Development and Flood Risk, TAN15.

Natural Resources Wales (NRW) makes these products available through various map viewers and postcode search applications on their website, to allow users to interact with the information.

The presentation will explore how the public and professionals interact with the data, the impact the maps has on users and the common questions NRW are asked about the maps.

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Simon Lewis is a Chartered Engineer and Senior Technical Advisor in the Environment Agency, with 20 years of experience in managing flood risk. He also guest lectures on flooding at a number of universities. Simon has supported the teams behind, or directly led, the delivery of the largest and most complex modelling the Environment Agency has done in recent years. Including leading near real time modelling and flood risk assessment for the Toddbrook Reservoirs Failure in 2019. His work is split between supporting those delivering modelling for the Environment Agency, providing project/scheme level assurance, enabling and adopting innovation, new methods and technology in the flood modelling space. And supporting the delivery of the Environment Agencies role as a statutory consultee on flood risk for spatial planning, including acting as an expert witness on flood modelling for the Environment Agency.

Abstract

Mind the Gap!

When submitting a flood model (associated with a planning application) to a statutory consultee it can often feel like there is a gap between you and the “other side”. In some cases it’s a tiny crevice that barely slows you down and others a huge gaping chasm that feels like it stopping the process in the most frustrating way.

Simon is going to share a view from a statutory consultees position to help close that gap through practical suggestions and hopefully an increase in understanding. He is going to touch on the Environment Agencies role in reviewing flood models as part of planning. And on some of the issues commonly seen by the Environment Agency, as well as highlighting the existing routes for help that the Environment Agency has already put in place.

But more than just sharing practical pointers and understanding Simon is going to start the conversation on what else can be done to bridge the gap between consultants and the Environment Agency (or other statutory consultees) with respect to reviewing flood modelling. So don’t just come to listen, bring your ideas and be ready join in.

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Bill has 40 years’ experience primarily in the flood hydraulics field. During this time, he successfully managed and led a wide range of studies in Australia and overseas. The widely used TUFLOW hydrodynamic modelling software was first developed by Bill starting in 1989.

Today, Bill is BMT’s Software Business Lead, managing TUFLOW’s global operations, and continues to provide specialist hydraulic modelling and flood risk management advice. He was the Project Manager for the award-winning Brisbane River Flood Study Hydraulic Assessment. In 2022, Bill received the FMA Allan Ezzy Flood Risk Manager of the Year Award, and delivered the Henderson Oration at the 2022 HWRS Conference.

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Hydrological, hydraulic and eco-hydraulic models are representations of systems. The representation requires abstraction and parameterisation of physical world processes into mathematical models. The abstractions range from simplistic to complex and the parametrisations can span from well definable through to too hard to define. Consideration of the uncertainties in the modelling process is paramount to using models robustly and in successfully communicating the outcomes of modelling activities to stakeholders and the wider community.

This presentation focuses on where the uncertainties occur during the modelling process and the potential for impacting outcomes. Aspects covered include:

Input and validation data, choice of physics, solution schemes, schematisation of system components, parametrisation of processes, validation of models, dissemination of results, and options to manage the uncertainty in practice.

The presentation will be of value to people relatively new to modelling through to experienced modellers, along with stakeholders who will benefit from enhancing their understanding of modelling uncertainty and how to manage uncertainty in practice.

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Duncan is a principal scientist and UK/Europe lead for TUFLOW, with 18 years’ experience in hydraulic modelling and flood risk management. Duncan has worked in many different aspects of flood risk and erosion management with a particular focus on hydraulic modelling including fluvial and pluvial flood modelling, integrated urban drainage as well as flood forecasting, water quality and sediment transport modelling. Duncan has spent the last 14 years working for various flood modelling software houses and has provided training to a range of governmental agencies and technical consultants internationally.

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TUFLOW FV is the flexible mesh solver within the TUFLOW suite of products which provides an array of source-to-sea environmental modelling functionality which lend itself to the analysis of more complex hydrodynamics, sediment transport and water quality all of which are becoming more important in the world we live in. This TUFLOW FV workshop will take attendees through the process of generating a TUFLOW FV model from scratch to apply to 3D hydrodynamics, sediment transport and water quality for the purpose of analysing a Combined Sewer Overflow spill.

The workshop aims to demystify TUFLOW FV utilising open tools to quickly design an efficient flexible mesh without the daunting methodology of old, utilising python scripts to automate the collection, collation and conversion of meteorological data from the Copernicus ERA5 dataset as input into the TUFLOW FV as boundary conditions and the use of the QGIS and python tools for the subsequent results analysis. The workshop will be run through 3 sessions, where each session builds on the previous session but can be undertaken as a standalone workshop. The individual sessions will cover:

• Session 1
  • Introduction to TUFLOW FV
  • Modern Meshing with Aquaveo SMS
  • Introduction to the TUFLOW FV Python Toolbox
• Session 2
  • 3D modelling
  • Automated Complex Boundary Conditions
• Session 3
  • Sediment Transport
  • Water Quality

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Russell is a Technical Engineer in the UK TUFLOW team, with 3.5 years experience in hydraulic modelling and flood risk consultancy. Russell has worked on a range of projects in England related to flood risk and the wider water environment, with a particular focus on fluvial flooding and coastal flooding, as well as pluvial flooding and water quality. During the 3.5 years, Russell has used a range of industry standard hydraulic modelling software including TUFLOW, Flood Modeller Pro, and Infoworks ICM.

Abstract

See Duncan Kitts above

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Michael is a Senior Principal Engineer with 30 years’ experience in environmental water management and modelling. Following completion of undergraduate degrees in chemistry and environmental engineering, and a PhD in environmental fluid mechanics, Michael has worked on, managed and led a large range of environmental water modelling studies across the globe. The focus of these studies has typically been the use of numerical models to assist in understanding and assessing impacts of existing or proposed development on the health of receiving environmental waterways. Michael also practises in urban water management and modelling and was jointly awarded the G. N. Alexander medal for his work in this area. Having developed and led a global corporate innovation strategy, Michael now draws on his project, research, scientific programming and innovation experience to lead the development of all TUFLOW products. Michael also holds an Adjunct Professorship at a major Australian University.

Abstract

Roads are foundational to modern life, especially for those of us who inhabit urban areas. By their very nature, roads are also sources of heavy metal, nutrient, hydrocarbon and sediment surface water pollution. Understanding the generation and transport of this polluted surface water in a highly spatially and temporally resolved manner is therefore critical to designing effective treatment measures to protect downstream environmental receptors. This session discusses the use of TUFLOW CATCH to do so, including an assessment of the placement and performance of various intervention measures.

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Peder is the UK Market Manager at Scalgo. With over 20 years of experience in academia, his background includes extensive work in large-scale ecology, terrain modelling, and remote sensing. Peder began collaborating with computer science professor Lars Arge in 2004 on modelling massive terrain data. Scalgo is a spin-off company from this research, and most of the tech team members hold PhDs from this environment. Peder joined Scalgo on January 1, 2020, to develop the UK market.

Peder holds an MSc in Biology and a PhD in Remote Sensing from Aarhus University. His PhD thesis focused on methods for analysing spatial patterns in imagery related to large-scale vegetation structures.

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Bringing dynamic models to the masses with DynamicFlood
We present DynamicFlood, which is a new integration of TUFLOW into Scalgo Live, made possible through a collaboration between BMT and Scalgo. The integration provides access to national datasets on topography, land cover, soil type and buildings, together with preset statistical rain events, surface roughness and infiltration parameters. Together, these datasets allow fully automatic setup of direct rainfall models, enabling the use of TUFLOW in the earliest stages of project planning by non-expert users. In this presentation, we will present use cases and give live demos of the fast and interactive tools for visualizing the TUFLOW outputs in Scalgo Live.

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Mathias is a Lead Software Developer in Scalgo with nearly 15 years experience in solving algorithmic problems on massive data sets. Mathias joined Scalgo in 2018 and has worked on many aspects of Scalgo Live, both in implementing new types of terrain analysis, developing the technical platform in order to scale to trillions of elevation points, and ensuring high availability and reliability for the over 25,000 users of Scalgo Live. Mathias has been in charge of developing the integration of TUFLOW into Scalgo Live in close collaboration with the TUFLOW team at BMT.

Mathias holds a PhD in Computer Science from Aarhus University, supervised by Prof. Lars Arge. The topic of his PhD thesis was algorithms for flood simulations on terrain models whose size exceeds the available RAM in a computer.

Abstract

For abstract see Peder Bøcher above

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Adam has 20 years of industry experience in flood risk management, covering hydrology, modelling, flood forecasting, incident management, FCERM scheme appraisal, and digital product development. He provides technical leadership for several innovation and digital transformation projects for the Environment Agency, SEPA, and DFI-Rivers.

As the technical lead for Jacobs’ digital flood product group (including Flood Modeller), Adam defines the product development roadmaps to address industry trends and needs. Adam supports development of new products, services, and tools to ensure they meet user needs and promotes adoption of latest technologies.

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Flood Modeller and TUFLOW have been the cornerstone of flood risk modelling and mapping in the UK for
the last 20 years, supported by the ongoing partnership between Jacobs and BMT. This presentation will
explore the products and tools being introduced in 2025 to enhance model quality and user experience,
focusing on Flood Modeller 8 and Flood Platform.

Flood Modeller 8 – Jacobs next planned release of Flood Modeller will include substantial enhancements to user experience and workflows, including a new streamlined user interface. This presentation will
showcase new features and tools, providing insights into the unified TUFLOW model build and edit
experience coming through 2025 – these will include integrated text editors, data asset libraries and
refreshed GIS functionality.

Flood Platform – Jacobs new cloud based model and simulation management service. I will demonstrate
the functionality in Flood Platform, including management of Flood Modeller and TUFLOW models, sharing
of data across organisations, cross-organisation review tools and cloud-based simulation management. I
will also give an overview of the features which will be added through the year, including automated model QA, reporting and AI enhancements.

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Jake is a senior technical advisor at the Environment Agency, working as the technical lead on the NaFRA2 New National Model, responsible for the technical quality of the new national model and leading the technical input from the Environment Agency team. Jake is a experienced team leader and technical
innovator with a demonstrated history of working in the environmental services industry.

Abstract

The New National Flood Risk Assessment is a step change in how the EA understands and communicates
flood risk. But beyond the products such as Flood zones you see online it is so much more, it’s a system which will allow the EA to leverage our existing and future modelling data to make better decisions.

This presentation aims to demystify that system, discuss what’s new in the currently publish products and what you can expect in future as the EA continues to iterate and improve our understanding of flood risk so that you can go away with a better understanding of NaFRA2 and what impact it will have on your work now and in the future.

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See ”
Understanding the Impacts of Road Runoff”

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Abstract: There is an old cliché about the parallels between the careers of water quality modellers and magicians, and one or two more about the similarities between water quality modelling software and random number generators. Whilst obviously jokes, cliches do often exist for a reason, and one reason for these water quality related cliches might be because there are so many water quality model parameters that can be changed (‘tweaked’) that any number of results can be arrived at in a given model from the same set of boundary and initial conditions. So which combination of parameters is correct? Well, the magician will tell you, and then run for the hills when asked why. The magician’s fundamental problem is that a water quality model’s ‘fitness for purpose’ has historically been assessed as its ability to reproduce measured environmental concentrations (of nitrogen, phosphorous etc). But: these concentrations are not fundamental environmental quantities and tell us nothing of the operation of a model – they are the nett effect of the operation of underlying environmental mass fluxes (like phytoplankton uptake or sediment release). This session addresses this magical dilemma head on and provides a robust mechanism for moving beyond relying on concentration based model assessment, and towards a complementary mass flux based approach that provides understanding as to why water quality models predict the concentrations they do.

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QGIS TUFLOW Plugin Lead, Classic/HPC and FV R&D, Support and Training

Ellis has over 12 years’ experience in the industry and joined the TUFLOW team in 2017. Prior to joining, Ellis had worked on many flood studies, infrastructure, and mine-water management projects all around Australia. Ellis now leads the GIS tool development including tools in QGIS, Mapinfo, and ArcGIS. Ellis is also part of the TUFLOW development team, helping with the development of TUFLOW, TUFLOW FV, the TUFLOW Utilities, and other Python tools. Ellis also managed the Australian TUFLOW training between 2018 and 2020.

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Recent and upcoming functionality within TUFLOW.

With the continued development and growth of the TUFLOW software, we enter into exciting times for TUFLOW. This session will provide an overview of recent updates to the TUFLOW software including major changes to the way that we manage TUFLOW releases which will more effectively deliver functionality to the TUFLOW user base . Coupled with this, the commitment to publishing a new user manual release with each TUFLOW minor release will enable increased transparency and allow users to more easily exploit new functionality.

We’ll share some updates of our current development plans for the TUFLOW software suite as we move towards a catchment to coast approach and implications for the licesning of the software. We’ll share plans for future functionality plus supporting GIS tools including an upcoming TUFLOW Python API.

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Cain is a chartered modeller and scientist with 5 years’ experience in flood risk and water management and prior experience in research. His projects have ranged in scope from commercial developer led FRAs to industrial research assessing the viability of new data and methods. He most enjoys working on international projects in data-scarce regions, which leads to more opportunities for creativity and novel methods.

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Modelling catastrophic tank failures at Sludge Treatment Centres offers hydraulic modellers the opportunity to go non-Newtonian. Mott MacDonald were tasked by a water company to model catastrophic tank failure for their Sludge Treatment Centres (STC). Both 2D TUFLOW and 3D CFD modelling was undertaken following scoping exercises with the client. Scenario runs were performed for both sludge and water based failures, to find the worst-case scenario. Following this validation, we proceeded to use TUFLOW 2D to model 9 treatment sites for a range of different failure scenarios. This approach delivered outcomes to a high-quality and cost-effective manner.

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Between 2020 & 2021 Dr Gerald Morgan was the Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow in Modelling for Natural Flood Risk Management and was previously a director of Edenvale Young Associates.

Gerald was one of the pioneers in the UK of the distributed modelling approach using TUFLOW and has extensive experience of hydrological and hydraulic modelling and development across the UK.

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Travis is an associate hydraulic modelling engineer with over seven years of
experience in delivering flood and stormwater related projects. This includes
experience across a number of different related areas including hydraulics,
hydrology, hydrogeology, site remediation, waste management, water and
wastewater treatment, and more. Travis has specialised skills in the fields of
stormwater and groundwater management including experience across a range of
flood risk and drainage related modelling packages. Travis also has relative
experience and interest in closing the gap between water quality assessments and
hydraulic modelling through hydrodynamic modelling using advection dispersion, sediment transport and
water quality related packages.

Abstract

European freshwater pearl mussel populations have declined by 90% over the past century. In Ireland, 27
freshwater pearl mussel populations are protected within Special Areas of Conservation. Eight of these
populations contain 80% of the total Irish freshwater pearl mussel population, known as the ‘Top 8
catchments’, which includes the Bundorragha catchment. The Bundorragha river catchment is part of the
Mweelrea – Sheeffry – Erriff Complex Special Area of Conservation (SAC). There are several protected
habitats and species identified for this SAC. However, the Freshwater Pearl Mussel is the most significant species which requires restoration of its habitat.

The objectives of this study were: To procure scientific support to pilot innovative approaches to integrated catchment management based on international best practice; To model the river hydrological dynamics (flow, sediment and water quality) in the Bundorragha catchment; To model the impact of potential FPM conservation management measures and land-use change on river water quality and flow behaviour; and To identify knowledge gaps, advise on monitoring, and the broader application to other FPM catchments. TUFLOW CATCH

Working in collaboration with the software developers TUFLOW Catch was used to model the Bundorragha
catchment. The first European application of this innovative technology, representing international best practice in integrated environmental modelling. TUFLOW Catch integrates the large-scale catchment wide hydrological modelling capabilities of TUFLOW HPC (Heavily Parallelised Compute) with the detailed
representation of receiving waters offered by TUFLOW FV (Finite Volume). The TUFLOW FV hydrodynamic
and receiving water quality model utilised the Advection Dispersion (AD), Heat (H), Sediment Transport (ST) and Water Quality (WQ) modules. The pilot study model was setup to provide a legacy product with future applications in mind. Including the ability to model hydrodynamics in 3D and simulate organic matter and pathogens when required

Details to follow

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Yasmin is a hydraulic modeller at BMT, with experience in surface water modelling and fluvial geomorphology. Yasmin moved to BMT following her PhD work on catchment-scale modelling of sediment dynamics in New Zealand, and has since worked on a wide range of modelling projects across TUFLOW and Flood Modeller. She is experienced in fluvial and surface water modelling small-scale localised areas through to large-scale modelling of entire boroughs, and has regularly progressed this work through to mapping, optioneering, and economic appraisals. Yasmin additionally provides technical training to colleagues on both TUFLOW and Flood Modeller applications.

Abstract

Urban environments are inherently complex systems containing innumerable surface water flow pathways, which can be difficult to quantify as they evolve and change over time. As the world grapples with a changing climate, surface water flood modelling is focussing on the increased flood risk within urban spaces and how to provide effective mitigation in already densely developed areas. The ‘Living Model’ concept was developed in response to these challenges, as a complex, large-scale urban model, which is itself allowed to evolve via a rolling system of updates and improvements over time.

This presentation will illustrate how the ‘Living Model’ for the London Borough of Waltham Forest was developed in conjunction with the Borough Council to deliver ongoing model development and regular high-quality outcomes for the client. This will include a discussion on how this approach facilitates more effective modelling of large-scale complex urban systems, provides better understanding of flooding mechanisms through both surface and subsurface flow pathways, and offer a wider-scale identification of surface water flood mitigation interventions.

Details to follow