Flood Control Articles

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Jan. 21, 2019

By Eijkelkamp Soil & Water

Client Waterschap Vallei en Veluwe Country The Netherlands The Grebbedijk is a levee located between the municipalities of Wageningen and Rhenen in the Netherlands and protects 250,000 residents in the Gelderse Valley adjacent to the waters of the Lower Rhine (Nederrijn). The Grebbedijk does not comply ...

Jan. 2, 2019

By Eijkelkamp Soil & Water

A village in Nottinghamshire has installed an advanced river monitoring system from OTT Hydrometry that automatically issues text (sms) message alarms so that residents can implement flood protection measures. Oxton has a history of flooding problems and with an increased frequency of flood events, Parish Councillor Dr. Ian Kilpatrick says: "The monitoring system is designed to provide sufficient ...

Dec. 31, 2018

By OTT HydroMet

Bedford Borough Council have been given responsibility for the management and control of 2 flood gates on the Great Ouse in the center of Bedford. OTT Hydrometry were successful in the tender process and were commissioned to install a monitoring solution that can trigger the opening and closing of the existing flood gates at predetermined river levels. In addition to the flood gate control the ...

Dec. 31, 2018

By OTT HydroMet

In an area of town at high risk for flooding, Globeville has initiated one of the biggest infrastructure developments in the city’s history. As one of four projects under Globeville’s $300 million Platte to Park Hill plan, the Globeville Landing Outfall Project (GLO) aims to redirect stormwater and ...

May 16, 2018

By Hamilton Kent

Ratepayers’ and water managers’ differing priorities may be bridged with education on issues ...

Mar. 11, 2018

By Fluence Corporation

Water and wastewater management are closely tied with energy use, environmental impact and employee safety, as each of these impacts—and is impacted by—water management processes in your organization. ...

Feb. 4, 2018

By EtQ, LLC

This paper proposes a conceptual model for selecting the centralization level for wastewater management in urban areas, which is associated with main sewage collectors and wastewater treatment facilities. The model is supported in the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Cost-Benefit Analysis. Additionally, the model is based on the results of variables and indicators ...

Dec. 31, 2017

By IWA Publishing

In order to provide urban flood early warning effectively, two support vector machine (SVM) models, using a numerical model as data producer, were developed to forecast the flood alert and the maximum flood depth, respectively. An application in the urban area of Jinlong River Basin, Hangzhou, China, showed the superiority of the proposed models. Statistical results based on the comparison ...

Nov. 28, 2017

By IWA Publishing

Two software development hurdles to advancing real-world operationalization of satellite datasets for water management are addressed in this study. First, a simple, easy-to-build and open-source web portal connecting to a back-end complex model is developed for resource-constrained developing nations. Second, to enhance the skill of satellite-based predictions, an innovative and dynamic web ...

Nov. 27, 2017

By IWA Publishing

Following a European call for tender during the summertime, we were awarded the contract to supply several sewage and flood control pumps. One of the key requirements was an official SAT (Site Acceptance Test). Recently, we successfully completed the first delivery of 12 inch sewage pumps including piping. This video shows how easy it is to set up the complete installation.  Some of the key ...

Nov. 21, 2017

By BBA Pumps North America

Executive summary Europe's floodplains once covered wide stretches along European rivers and were valued for their high ecological importance. Over a number of years they have been cleared for agricultural purposes and changed through urban expansion and artificial flood control structures. Existing natural waterways do not always have the capacity to bear any excess water which can lead ...

Nov. 20, 2017

By European Environment Agency (EEA)

Clean up with air quality in mind Flooding can strike anywhere around waterways, especially in the spring, when lakes and rivers swell up with melt-water. This year, major floods have already hit areas in North and South America and other parts of the world, including Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, California, Chile, Peru, Indonesia and Russia, just to name a few. When water ...

Nov. 19, 2017

By Allerair Industries

Discover How 3 Municipalities Revolutionized their Water Systems with Electronic Controls When it comes to water management, new technology can help you solve some of your most ...

Oct. 23, 2017

By Singer Valve Inc.

The Conference, organized by FuturENVIRO and Enviro Networking, takes place on 6th October in the context of Canagua & energía International Fair of Canary Islands Toro Equipment, leader company in wastewater manufacturing equipment, is holding a speech in Technical Conference about Water ...

Sep. 26, 2017

By Toro Equipment S.L.

Identifying the various factors that affect the intensity of a flood event, such as its duration and volume, is essential for strategic planning and flood management. Further, quantifying the impacts of these major factors on flood intensity using the contribution rate is essential, but technically challenging. In this study, the authors have adopted the projection pursuit model to quantify ...

Sep. 12, 2017

By IWA Publishing

What happens to the water network in the wake of hurricanes and floods? Just days after Hurricane Harvey dumped over 50 inches of rain on the American state of Texas causing the deaths of 60 people and delivering billions of dollars worth of damage to homes and property, Hurricane Irma has wreaked havoc in the Caribbean with the most powerful Atlantic storm in recorded history. ...

Sep. 7, 2017

By Detectronic Ltd

A unified co-evolutionary model was developed to study the adaptability conditions of regional water security systems, which is important for the coordinated development of these systems. In this work, the main factors that affect the adaptability of regional water security systems, the contribution of each sub-problem domain to the development of the problem domain, and the fitness values of ...

Sep. 1, 2017

By IWA Publishing

In various conceptual models, the shape parameter (β) of the storage capacity curve, representing the non-linear relationship between relative soil moisture and runoff, determines runoff yield given certain circumstances of rainfall and antecedent soil moisture. In practice, β is typically calibrated for individual catchments and for different purposes, which limits more ...

Aug. 10, 2017

By IWA Publishing

Water management is critical in small islands such as the Azores (Portugal), and the present paper address changes that have occurred in the last decades through national constitutional arrangements and the adoption of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). The WFD provided an opportunity to implement integrated river basin planning, whose main results are also discussed, surpassing early ...

Jul. 18, 2017

By IWA Publishing