Kevin Stewart
Kevin Stewart is a registered professional engineer and manager of the Information Services and Flood Warning Program of the Urban Drainage and Flood Control District in Denver, Colorado. The District serves 40 local governments in the Denver/Boulder metropolitan area. The District’s Flood Warning Program is responsible for operating and maintaining a widely-used automated flood detection network known as the ALERT system. This large network consists of over 220 stations that monitor rainfall, stream levels and weather conditions in real-time. The flash flood prediction program, a.k.a. F2P2, is another well-known component of the Flood Warning Program. The F2P2 operates in close partnership with the National Weather Service and has provided Denver area local governments with early flood predictions and threat notifications since 1979.
Before joining the District staff in 1984, Stewart worked for an engineering consulting firm in Lakewood, Colorado. Before that, he was with the State of Iowa’s floodplain management program where he served as the state coordinator for the National Flood Insurance Program. Stewart is a Civil Engineering graduate of Iowa State University and is a past president of the National Hydrologic Warning Council.
Workshop Abstracts
When Flood Threat is Imminent—in the Aftermath of the Fourmile Canyon Fire
