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Why Is Water Level Monitoring Important?

Monitoring water levels can have numerous environmental benefits and is a popular measurement for a number of different industries and organisations. Below we will discuss some of the common applications water level monitoring devices, as well as some of the valuable insights that recording this can reveal. Remote water level monitoring Whereas ...

Jun. 29, 2018

By Aquaread Limited

Climate change and river flooding in Europe

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Jan. 1, 2005

By European Environment Agency (EEA)

Flood alert and remote monitoring of water reservoirs and rivers

River flood alert and water reservoir managements are global growing requirements. SolidAT offers a full or partial solution (according to the customer's requirements) that can save lives and damage to property inflected by river floods. Moreover we provide real time water reservoir level and capacity. Awareness of governments and municipalities world wide is growing. Below is described a case ...

Sep. 7, 2009

By Solid Applied Technologies Ltd. (SolidAT)

Flood protection - Flood walls

Manitoba Hydro is the electric power and natural gas utility in the province of Manitoba, Canada. Located only minutes north of the US border at North Dakota, Manitoba Hydro have generating stations and sub-stations located in the Red River Valley. This critical infrastructure is vulnerable to annual river flooding and, with flood predictions and forecasts for Spring 2011 at the highest in ...

Dec. 3, 2012

By HESCO Bastion, Inc.

InfoWorks RS models Mexican river flooding

Untitled Document The CNA Chiapas ...

Aug. 3, 2005

By Innovyze

GAO Report on Missouri River Flood and Drought

Introduction The Missouri River stretches from western Montana to St. Louis, Missouri. The Corps manages six dams and reservoirs on the river to provide flood control and for other purposes, such as recreation and navigation. The Corps bases reservoir release decisions on the guidance in the Master Manual. In the 2011 flood, the Corps managed the highest runoff volume since 1898, ...

Oct. 1, 2014

By IWA Publishing

Room for the River as an anecdote to Europe’s flood woes

As part of a training course on river restoration sponsored by the RESTORE project, I recently visited the Waal River, a main branch of the Rhine River, flowing through the Netherlands. Here the Dutch are making ‘Room for the River’, restoring floodplains to reduce the risks of floods and creating benefits for people and nature. On the heels of recent ...

Jul. 15, 2013

By Wetlands International

Flood Alleviation

BritishFlora helps rescue lost London river from subterranean obscurity in award winning flood prevention. In the 1930's, engineers at the then Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich diverted a flood-prone section of the River Quaggy through an underground culvert so that new housing could beQuaggy built. In fine weather, the river was contained. But after heavy rainfall, the Quaggy became a ...

Dec. 1, 2012

By BritishFlora

Modelling and Managing Flood Risk and Flooding

The UK’s prestigious Royal Society recently held a discussion group on the subject of Flood Management and Climate Change. With much of the Northern Hemisphere approaching the winter flooding season, we spoke to Wallingford Software’s David Fortune to find out the role of modelling in flood forecasting and flood management. He set out his ideas as follows: We must remember first that, while we ...

Jan. 1, 2002

By Innovyze

Potential analysis for synergetic flood retention measures in the Wandse River catchment

The Wandse has a total length of 21,5 km with a catchment area of 88 km2. The source is located in Schleswig-Holstein where the upper part of river and catchment (aprox. 4,2 km and 20 km2) are of predominantly rural character. The lower part on Hamburg territory (approx. 17,3 km and 68 km2) is of urban character with a high percentage of sealed surfaces that drain to the Wandse or their ...

Aug. 9, 2011

By IWA Publishing

Potential analysis for synergetic flood retention measures in the river wandse catchment

General Description of the River Wandse Catchment The Wandse has a total length of 21,5 km with a catchment area of 88 km2. The source is located in Schleswig-Holstein where the upper part of river and catchment (aprox. 4,2 km and 20 km2) are of predominantly rural character. The lower part on Hamburg territory (approx. 17,3 km and 68 km2) is of urban character with a high percentage of sealed ...

Aug. 2, 2011

By IWA Publishing

Flood information systems in Europe: a survey of trans-boundary river management

Oct. 1, 2010

By IWA Publishing

A solution against flooding: New elevetor at River Terminal, NJ - Case Study

River Terminal - New Jersey, USA Warehouse near Hudson River This is Geoplast worksite in Kearny, New Jersey. NEW ELEVETOR system was used in a warehouse near Hudson River and this has been a very succesful solution for this area. NEW ELEVETOR SYSTEM by Geoplast is the fastest and less expensive solution against floodings. The formwork can easily be installed in any ...

Oct. 11, 2016

By Geoplast US Corp.

Colorado River Floods, Droughts, and Shrimp Fishing in the Upper Gulf of California, Mexico

Abstract Accurate procedures that measure hydrologic variability would have great value for evaluating ecosystem impacts of upstream water use in the Colorado River Basin. Many local extractive income-based stakeholders rely directly or indirectly on ecosystem health and are adversely affected when the river does not flow. This study focuses on the impact of little or no Colorado River ...

Dec. 17, 2005

Are embankments a good flood control strategy? A case study on the Kosi river

Whether embankments should be used to control floods is a question of great importance in the eastern Gangetic plain, where embankment breaches cause severe flood damage every year and huge damage due to major breaches every few years. Critics of the embankment policy have called for a strategy of living with floods by building dispersed infrastructure to cope with floods. However, no ...

Oct. 2, 2013

By IWA Publishing

InfoWorks RS aids priority river flood modeling in New Zealand

Project Background Innovyze’s InfoWorks RS has been the key software in helping to formulate flood risk reduction strategies throughout the Northland Region of New Zealand, an area of approximately 14,000 km2 on the northern tip of New Zealand’s North Island. The Northland Region has a predominately tropical climate. In recent years a number of tropical storms have ...

May 19, 2011

By Innovyze

InfoWorks RS optimizes flood management for a complex Parisian river system

Untitled Document Wallingford Software's InfoWorks RS software solution has been utilized to enable a French water authority to create ...

Jun. 3, 2005

By Innovyze

Hydrology and flood probability of the monsoon-dominated Chindwin River in northern Myanmar

As the third largest river of Myanmar, the Chindwin River has great importance as a water resource and transport artery. At 113,800 km2 the basin is comparable in size to the Elbe basin in Europe, although with higher rainfall and runoff. During the southwest monsoon high rainfall intensities with spatial and temporal variation causing severe floods are threatening the region. The study aims to ...

Mar. 17, 2015

By IWA Publishing

Impact of climate change on flood and drought events in Huaihe River Basin, China

The impact of climate change on floods and droughts in Huaihe River Basin is studied using a coupled land-surface hydrology model and continuous wavelet transform technique. Observed temperature in the basin has increased by approximately 0.228 °C per decade since 1951. Observed precipitation and simulated and observed streamflows are used to grade flood and drought events. Two composite grading ...

Jan. 1, 2012

By IWA Publishing

Reassessing flood frequency for the River Trent through the inclusion of historical flood information since <sc>ad</sc> 1320

Reassessing flood frequency for the River Trent through the inclusion of historical flood information since ad 1320

The estimation of return periods for floods likely to have significant societal impact is challenging unless suitably long records exist. Relatively few sites across the UK provide a continuous record of river level or discharge over 50 years, whilst records extending back to the nineteenth century are rare. This represents a significant problem in providing robust and reliable estimates of ...

Mar. 20, 2013

By IWA Publishing

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