Seven Oaks Development

The project required extensive drainage design. GCE prepared a master drainage plan, a detention design, a floodplain design, and analyzed potential impacts on Chocolate Bayou and its tributaries. A complicated ICPR 3 model was developed to simulate hydraulic routing of 41 proposed interconnected lakes. HEC-HMS and HEC-RAS models were created to generate hydrographs and channel routing while HEC models for Chocolate Bayou were revised to incorporate hydrologic and hydraulic changes. The final HEC models for Chocolate Bayou demonstrated that proposed development would impact no receiving channels adversely.
Bridge scour analysis was also conducted to simulate four proposed bridges along Seven Oaks Parkway design.