Last year, the City of Asheville — in cooperation with Buncombe County, the Town of Black Mountain, and the North Carolina Division of Water Resources — hired Brown & Caldwell Engineering to complete a flood risk management assessment for the Swanannoa Valley and make recommendations for projects to help save lives and property in future floods. The study is not yet complete, but 48 possible flood risk management projects have now been identified, a number of which are in the Swannanoa Valley. The projects include such things as stormwater detention structures and retrofits, stream channel improvements, flood-proofings, potential buyouts of floodplain property, and improvements in flood warning procedures.