Jasper County, South Carolina seeks a Comprehensive Stormwater Management Master Plan for Jasper County, South Carolina. The County intends to use the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) grant to fund a county-wide Comprehensive Stormwater Management Master Plan to identify flooding issues throughout the county, conduct an assessment of the existing watersheds, stormwater system, develop, assess, and prioritize projects, and establish an implementation strategy for projects to mitigate against future flooding throughout Jasper County. BRIC funding is limited and those competing for this project must have a thorough and demonstrated understanding of the constraints and limitations associated with BRIC funding as well as with the inherent academic Social Vulnerability Index (SoVI) considerations associated with Low and Moderate Income (LMI) communities. The purpose of this project is to develop a plan that identifies follow-on projects that reduce potential flood impacts throughout Jasper County. This Master Plan will identify and prioritize a list of projects that focus on nature-based solutions regarding stormwater as well as some inclusion of traditional infrastructure project(s). Each project must meet the following criteria: 1. Meet the following definition of a Mitigation Activity: Activities that increase resilience to disasters and reduce or eliminate the long-term risk of loss of life, injury, damage to and loss of property, and suffering and hardship, by lessening the impact of future flood events. 2. Align with BRIC guiding principles: a. Incorporation of Nature Based solutions. b. Natural Hazard risk reduction to mitigate risk of public infrastructure. 3. Benefit Cost Analysis (BCA) of greater than one (1). 4. All downstream effects of projects must be evaluated regardless of geographic location. The Master Plan deliverables must have the highest level of credibility based upon data-driven, expert analysis. Therefore, the County seeks an experienced firm that is familiar with these types of projects and can work within the intent of the BRIC program. The selected firm will provide a comprehensive data analysis in a Master Plan that will qualify and enable further grant allocations to execute the recommended follow-on projects.
