Painless Mapping Using New Mexico OSE Dam Inundation Mapbook Processing Tools

The New Mexico Office of the State Engineer Dam Inundation Mapbook Processing Toolset (Toolset) was developed to provide engineers, consultants, and dam owners with an efficient process to map model-simulated dam breach inundation extent results for dams. The Toolset is an automated flood mapping GIS tool facilitated by Python scripts using the ESRI ArcMap program. The Toolset generates a standard mapbook with dam breach inundation results for up to two dam breach inundation scenarios. The process utilizes specific map templates including an index map, a map border, a dam flood characteristics table, and base layers to create a standardized product showing any dam breach analysis results. By applying the Toolset and importing the dam breach simulation results, users will be able to efficiently produce a dam flood inundation mapbook for Emergency Action Plans (EAP) and Evacuation Plan development. With the mapbook tool, the NMOSE-DSB will be able to encourage dam owners to produce, or update, dam EAPs through a streamlined mapping process, and efficiently manage and file the standardized dam flood inundation maps.