Prioritizing Floodplain Investment with Quantified, Multi‑Benefit Insight

What Problem EcoFIP Helps Solve

Floodplain restoration projects deliver many benefits—reducing flood risk, improving habitat, and increasing groundwater recharge—but deciding where to invest is often complicated by funding, land access, potential impact and regulatory complexity.

EcoFIP was developed to help planners, agencies, and owners identify and prioritize floodplain opportunities with defensible, data-driven metrics.

How EcoFIP Creates Value for Clients

EcoFIP evaluates how landscapes respond to changing hydrology by integrating geospatial data, flow records, and digital elevation models with hydraulic simulations. Rather than producing isolated model outputs focused on one solution, EcoFIP translates complex hydrologic behavior into comparable measures of inundation, habitat availability, and recharge potential.

This allows clients to:

• Compare floodplain reconnection alternatives on a consistent basis
• Quantify tradeoffs between ecological, hydrologic, and flood-risk outcomes
• Support funding and permitting decisions with transparent metrics
• Scale analyses from individual sites to entire river corridors

Driving Better Decisions

EcoFIP helps clients move from conceptual opportunity to prioritized action. By making benefits measurable and comparable, it provides a defensible technical foundation for multi-benefit project planning, stakeholder engagement, and long-term resilience strategies.