Natural flood management, coastal change, and aspirations for greater biodiversity are increasingly utilising hydraulic modelling and other geospatial techniques to evaluate potential opportunities.

While advances in hydraulic modelling are making complex models more accessible, sometimes a simplified approach is more suitable for rapid testing and answering the question “will it work?”.

Paddy West, Senior hydraulic Modeller at Binnies, showcases the way in which Flood Modeller has been used to explore various options to recreate intertidal habitat from reclaimed farmland.

Paddy demonstrates how Flood Modeller’s 1D solver and its in-built tools, together with GIS-post processing, can be used to model and map dynamic tidal inundation in an efficient and cost-effective way.