Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness Program

Is Your Community Vulnerable to Climate Change?

We offer technical support for municipalities through the Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness (MVP) program. The MVP program provides funding support and aims to assess and strengthen vulnerable assets as well as prioritize and implement action-oriented resilience plans. Our certified providers can help your community secure funding and take action so that you’re prepared for the impacts of climate change.

Our Qualifications

Our experts in resilience planning, hazard mitigation and mapping, and emergency preparedness have been working alongside communities across the U.S. for more than half a century. As a FEMA contractor, our focus is on helping communities by making them stronger, better prepared and trained, more resilient, and financially stable after disaster events. Additionally, we are certified by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs as an MVP provider.

Our Solutions

We offer a wide range of solutions and phased approaches to help clients maximize resources. Our interdisciplinary approach combines firm-wide capabilities in infrastructure, transportation, water/wastewater, telecommunications, engineering design and construction, and environmental services to solve challenges posed by climate hazards. We help communitites adapt and reduce risk.

Working collaboratively with your community, we will help navigate the uncertainties associated with extreme climate and sea level rise by:

• Studying multi-scenario frameworks
• Developing likelihood/consequence models
• Weighing scoring to provide effective identification of exposed assets to facilitate prioritization and development of adaptation strategies 

MA EEA MVP Certified Providers

David Bedoya

Water Service Line Department head

Kelly Rosofsky

Emergency Management Specialist

Sarah Hamm, CFM

Coastal Resilience and Hazards Scientist

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Additional Support

The success of developing an action-oriented resilience plan through the MVP process requires collaboration and participation among community leaders and stakeholders. We will work with your community to identify these groups and develop a community engagement structure that is equitable and representative. This may include, but is not limited to, government agencies and representatives, residents, businesses, institutions, and neighborhood associations. Establishing inclusive and diverse community engagement is a key component as MVP priorities are being identified.

Our relationship with FEMA goes back three decades. Our long-term understanding of federal programs and how they relate to state-funded programs allows us to effectively assist your community with its goals. We have developed and refined management procedures, created custom applications to automate processes, provided expert analysis of benefit-cost analysis and mitigation projects, written policy guides and publications, and supported mapping and modeling efforts for local, regional, and national efforts. We have supported Newburyport, Beverly, and Everett, Massachusetts, with hazard mitigation and disaster recovery grant applications and offer intimate knowledge of the history and processes needed to be successful with funding efforts.

Our team developed the concept of fully integrated coastal riverine and urban sewer modeling to provide a seamless and fully dynamic representation of actual flood risk in coastal, riverine, and inland communities. Our modeling staff uses a variety of tools and can tailor probabilistic approaches to flood risk under both existing and climate change rainfall and sea level rise and surge scenarios. Using this approach provides the necessary information for stakeholders to prioritize mitigation actions based on real frequency of flooding as well as severity of flooding (flood depth and duration) that can be generated from our hydraulic modeling tools. These modeling tools can be used for essential facilities, including schools, police, fire, medical, and emergency operations, as well as sewer network analysis, flood visualization, coastal modeling, and evaluation of flood risk under various rainfall types, including cloud burst versus long duration events and event-based modeling versus continuous simulations. We develop flood resilience plans that are scalable based on your community’s needs.