Profile

Ms. Casset has more than 21 years of experience serving public clients in stormwater and floodplain management, Laura’s background includes civil engineering design of flood mitigation projects, surface water hydrology/hydraulics, identifying project funding opportunities, grant application development, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) map revisions and studies, as well as site development, utility relocation, and transportation drainage projects throughout central and south Texas.

Laura has a working knowledge of hydrologic and hydraulic analysis programs, including HEC-HMS, HECRAS, StormCAD, InfoWorks ICM, and mapping protocols, including AutoCAD, OpenRoads Designer and ArcGIS. She is familiar with FEMA analysis guidelines and Letter of Map Revision (LOMR) procedures.

Laura has lived and worked in Austin for more than 25 years and designed and managed 15 City of Austin Watershed Protection projects over a period of 16 years and 7 rotation lists, including 2011, 2015, and 2019 Flood Risk Reduction rls.