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Proactive Management of Flooding with Innovative Technology For Every Budget

Brent Register
Derek Slocum
OTT HydroMet
Sterling, VA

As water managers and engineers, it’s important to understand our watersheds, urban landscapes, their response to extreme events like heavy precipitation, and efficient ways to protect and inform the public with the resources we have available. Of the numerous tools at our disposal, there are many benefits to a flood warning system, including knowing in time where flooding issues could occur, enabling proactive action, and protecting lives while maintaining a high level of water quality.  Many communities know they need to modernize their water data management, but shy away for cost, implementation pains, or the learning curve as they move away from a legacy client-server application.

In this presentation, the discussion will include urban flooding, the value of data collection for flood warning, water quality monitoring, and water data management.

Together, we’ll examine what the range of flood monitoring and warning systems might look like in your community and how data can help your community be prepared for a flooding emergency.

With this presentation, attendees will:

  • Receive an overview of flooding in the U.S., monitoring options and software that manages incoming water level, water quality data enabling QA/QC, providing defensible, accessible, reliable data

  • Learn the importance of flood warning systems and their components

  • Explore how water data management can help convince your community about the importance of being prepared for a flooding emergency

About Brent Register

Brent 7+ years experience in water monitoring systems sales.  The range of clients has included municipalities, federal governments, state governments, researchers/academia, and engineering consulting firms.  Brent joined OTT Hydromet as the North Central Region Territory Manager in 2019.  In 2022, Brent transitioned to the Mid-Atlantic Territory.  He has a fisheries and wildlife sciences degree from North Carolina State University.

About Derek Slocum

Derek has acquired 20+ years in the municipal water resources industry as a staff/design engineer, town engineer, & public works director.  Municipal operations, capital improvement projects & budgets, domestic water, wastewater collection, stormwater management, & managing the public’s expectations are a few of the areas of Derek's expertise.  With that background, I've learned it all boils down to infrastructure, maintenance & readiness. A graduate of Penn State University, with a degree in civil engineering. Derek began with OTT HydroMet in 2020 as a Hydrology Advisor/Business Development Manager