Communities face mounting stormwater challenges—climate change intensifies flooding, aging infrastructure strains budgets, and traditional site-by-site approaches leave communities managing disconnected systems. Advanced computer modeling and data collection make it possible to understand and manage entire watersheds, including the infrastructure within them, in ways that were prohibitively expensive just a decade ago.
Verdantas delivers integrated watershed and infrastructure planning that pulls together traditionally siloed disciplines—stream/river flooding, street/yard flooding, water quality, and ecological restoration. Our digitally enabled approach helps communities understand their systems holistically and identify the most cost-effective solutions. We serve municipalities and other clients nationwide, particularly those who once assumed that advanced planning support was beyond their means.
This approach translates directly into results that matter—securing funding, achieving community and stakeholder buy-in, and delivering measurable community benefits.
Experience That Delivers Results
Unlike consultants focused solely on EPA and/or FEMA compliance, Verdantas approaches watershed planning from a broader perspective. Our team specializes in the integration of multiple modeling tools, including SWMM and HEC RAS, for holistic stormwater planning. In addition, we have developed custom platforms like EcoFIP to identify solutions that deliver multiple benefits.
We demonstrate to stakeholders and funding agencies exactly how proposed improvements will reduce flooding, enhancing habitat, improving water quality and groundwater recharge and optimizing infrastructure investment. This data-driven approach helps clients secure internal buy-in and attract external grants.
Planning for Long-Term Community Resistance
Each community’s stormwater infrastructure represents the potential for millions of dollars in replacement value if damaged through flooding. Yet many communities lack the tools to prioritize investments or understand how upstream improvements affect downstream flooding.
Our integrated planning identifies solutions that address immediate flood risks while considering multiple community priorities such as ecological benefits and improving water quality.. Communities achieve long-term efficiencies and reduce flood damage costs that total hundreds of billions of dollars nationally. The investment is clear: a relatively small initial investment to understand and manage infrastructure worth millions of dollars.
