The City of Armidale is located on the Dumaresq Creek floodplain. It has unique hydrologic characteristics, further influenced by the upstream dam and variable rainfall patterns and soil infiltration rates. Armidale Regional Council has moved towards a Flood Early Warning System to enhance their knowledge of upcoming flood events, road closures and to help community preparedness.
JB Pacific developed an Early Warning System to predict road closures through the main city, with thresholds optimised using historic data and relationships between forecast rainfall, catchment conditions, available lead time, and the local dam. The system uses the Delft-FEWS back-end forecasting engine, connected to the Weather Foresight portal for Council and SES users to view real-time and predicted flood information
