Background

The Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) is currently implementing the requirements of Senate Bill 8 of the 86th Texas Legislature (2019).

The bill required TWDB to prepare and adopt a comprehensive state flood plan by September 1, 2024 and every five years thereafter.

The law also required TWDB to designate fifteen Regional Flood Planning Groups (RFPGs) to lead regional planning efforts that TWDB will then aggregate into the state plan.

<aside> ⏳ RFPGs must submit their first regional flood plans to TWDB in January 2023.

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Each RFPG has hired a technical consultant to assist in gathering data and developing regional plans.

The consultants are required to gather and submit every hydrologic and hydraulic model developed or utilized to evaluate projects and strategies in the regional plans.

<aside> 👉 In order to preserve key information about these models, TWDB has implemented a system called MS2 to process these model uploads.

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The Model Storage and Management System (MS2) is a collaboration between TWDB and the Texas Disaster Information System (TDIS).

<aside> 💻 The system is available at https://twdb.tdis.io/metadata_app

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What does the system do?

Technical consultants are provided with a login to this system, where they can:

1. Generate metadata about the models, such as when it was created, the model type, and other key pieces of information for the archive.
2. Generate a script to upload the large model files from their computer.