LEVEE Connect

Connect is the consultant view of the LEVEE map. Logged-in flood engineers and consultants see more detailed model information (levels, velocities, hazard categories and study metadata) and can list their own completed studies for review and publication. The demo is open now on the Connect view of the map.

What a listing involves, and what is never asked for, is set out on the contribution page. The short version: no model files, no reports.

For flood consultants

Capitalise on work already completed.

Replace your advertising spend with exposure to an audience already looking.

• Maximise the use of work already completed, assessed and approved by Council.
• Your study appears on the map. Nearby owners and applicants see it exists and who prepared it, and contact you directly.
• Extending an existing model to a neighbouring site costs a fraction of building a new one, so one study can earn across several properties instead of sitting in a folder.
• Exposure to an audience already looking for exactly what you do, in the catchment you already know.
• No model files, results or reports are shared. A listing shows the model domain or catchment, the study date, the approval pathway and application number, and approval status.
• Reviewed before it goes live, withdrawable at any time, and free, like everything on LEVEE.
• No commission and no referral fee.

Site specific flood studies are commissioned, assessed, approved, and then effectively lost. LEVEE Connect makes that work visible again. Your study appears on the map, and the next applicant nearby sees who prepared it and contacts you directly. Extending an existing model to a neighbouring site costs a fraction of building one from scratch, so a single study can earn across several properties rather than sitting in a folder. It replaces advertising spend with exposure to an audience that is already looking for exactly what you do, in a catchment you already know. No model files, results or reports are shared, and Perennial takes no commission.

Your existing study becomes visible to the properties around it, and the next applicant comes to you.

For applicants and owners

Capitalise on work already assessed and approved.

Don't pay to model your catchment twice.

• There is no competency certification for flood modelling in NSW. Choosing a consultant is usually guesswork.
• Connect shows who has had work in your catchment assessed and approved by Council, which is the closest thing to a track record that exists.
• See whether a study already covers or adjoins your property, and who prepared it.
• Contact that consultant directly. They already know the catchment.
• Extending an existing model to your site is commonly faster and cheaper than commissioning a new study.
• Every listing shows the study date and approval status, so you can judge how current and how relevant it is.
• Perennial takes no commission and no referral fee. Inclusion is not a recommendation, and the choice is yours.

Being told you need a flood study is where most applications stall. You do not know who to call, what it should cost, or whether the work has already been done. Often it has. Studies are commissioned lot by lot, and one covering your street may already sit in a filing system you cannot see. LEVEE Connect shows whether a study exists and who prepared it, so you can go to a consultant who already knows your catchment and has had work there assessed and approved by Council. In an industry with no competency certification, that is the closest thing to a track record available. Extending an existing model is commonly faster and cheaper than starting again.

For council

An assessment your officers have already seen.

The next application in that catchment can start from work you have already reviewed.

• Connect shows which catchments already carry an assessed and approved study, and who prepared it.
• An applicant extending an existing model brings your officers a familiar basis rather than a new one every time.
• Listings carry the approval pathway and application number, so the record traces back to your own system.
• No model files, results or reports are held. A listing is a boundary, a date and a status.
• Nothing publishes without the consultant's consent and a review, and it can be withdrawn at any time.

Your officers assess a site specific flood study, approve it, and then it leaves the field of view. The next applicant on the next lot arrives with a new model and the assessment starts again. Connect keeps the record visible. It shows which catchments already carry an assessed and approved study and who prepared it, so an applicant can extend that work rather than commission another. The review your officers already did keeps returning value, and the listing carries the approval pathway and application number so it traces back to your own records.

What Connect will include

• Detailed model results at a point: levels, depths, velocities and hazard.
• Automated upload of your listing, validated against the LEVEE conventions and queued for review before publication. What a listing contains is set out on the contribution page.
• Study metadata, licensing status and data-currency detail per layer.
• Development pathway guidance drawn from council lodgement requirements.