Hurricane Harvey Report: A fact-finding effort in the direct aftermath of Hurricane Harvey in the Greater Houston Region

On August 25, 2017, Hurricane Harvey made landfall near Rockport, Texas as a Category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of approximately 200 km/hour. Harvey caused severe damages in coastal Texas due to extreme winds and storm surge, but will go down in history for record-setting rainfall totals and flood-related damages. Across large...

Dodelijke overstromingen langs de Franse kust, schade door storm Xynthia

Memo met samenvatting van de effecten van stormvloed, dijkdoorbraken en overstromingen in Frankrijk door de storm Xynthia op 28 februari 2010. Overzicht schade, slachtoffers, staat van onderhoud waterkeringen en politieke implicaties. In Bijlage korte beschrijving effect Xynthia in Nederland

Overzicht bronnen van verontreinigd slib en mogelijke transportpaden

Transport van verontreinigingen via slibdeeltjes (vooral via gesuspendeerd materiaal, daarnaast ook via ‘bedload’) kan een belangrijk aandeel vormen in het totale transport van deze stoffen. Het kan hierbij gaan om grote hoeveelheden die bovendien grensoverschrijdend verplaatst worden, en grote ecologische effecten teweeg kunnen brengen. Voor...

Protecting St. Bernard Parish, New Orleans: Revision of the coastal defence zone

This document is the final report of a Master thesis research. The research was executed as cooperation between Delft University of Technology, ARCADIS and ComCoast as part of The Road and Hydraulic Engineering Institute of the Directorate-General of Public Works and Water management (RWS DWW). In this report, the hurricane defence system of St....

Consequences of floods for civil infrastructure

Consequences of floods: 2D hydraulic simulations for the case study area Central Holland

Consequences of floods: The development of a method to estimate the loss of life

Literature study on environmental impact of floods

Literature study on flood damage data

FRHYMAP: Flood Risk and HYdrological MAPping

The general objective of the FRHYMAP project was to integrate within a single mesoscale basin, the transboundary Alzette river basin, the various aspects concerning flooding events, reaching from the hydro-climatological analysis of field data to the risk assessment of socio-economic impacts, taking into account past and future climate and...

Land below sea level

Short booklet on the hydraulic history of the Netherlands, the battle against floods and storm surges in history