This grant provided funding to the City of Southport to evaluate stormwater system assets. The city experiences frequent flooding caused by its flat geography and its lack of stormwater infrastructure. The entire city benefitted from this project. Golden LEAF funds were used to perform a city-wide asset inventory and condition assessment and evaluation of the stormwater system. Surveying and mapping of the system provides an updated GIS database to evaluate potential areas to increase system capacity and efficiency. Modeling efforts identify critical points with undersized assets or ones that need to be replaced. A capital improvement plan gives the city a guide for budgeting projects that will reduce flooding, prioritized by those that will provide the most benefit.
