Stroomgebiedbeheerplan Rijndelta

De Kaderrichtlijn Water heeft tot doel de oppervlaktewateren - waaronder ook overgangswater en kustwater - en het grondwater in de Europese Unie te beschermen en te verbeteren en het duurzaam gebruik van water te bevorderen. De doelstellingen van de KRW moeten op 22 december 2015 zijn bereikt. Deze termijn kan onder bepaalde voorwaarden worden...

Development of flood management strategies for the Rhine and Meuse basins in the context of integrated river management

Water management of the rivers Rhine and Meuse is surrounded by major uncertainties. The central question is then: given the uncertainties, what is the best water management strategy? This raises the need for integrated scenarios that consider possible futures in a coherent and consistent way. Within the framework of IRMA-SPONGE a scenario study...

Evaluation of floodplain management strategies: The added value of wetlands

The objective of this project was to evaluate the beneficial effects of wetlands on flood risk reduction and water quality improvement in the Rhine. The analysis of wetland effects on flood risk reduction aimed at evaluating whether the position of a wetland in the basin – upstream or downstream – will influence the added value of the wetlands...

Development and application of BIO-SAFE

BIO-SAFE is a policy and legislation based model for the assessment of impacts of flood prevention measures on biodiversity in river basins. Within the framework of IRMA-SPONGE, a transnational version of the model BIO-SAFE (Spreadsheet Application For Evaluation of BIOdiversity) for the rivers Rhine and Meuse was developed. The model was...

Natural background concentrations of phosphorus and nitrogen in the Dutch Wadden Sea

Policy plans and subsequent measures to reduce nutrient concentrations in coastal waters require realistic historical information on nutrient concentrations. The main goal of the present report was to develop and apply a practical, but scientifically sound strategy to assess the background concentrations of nutrients in the Dutch Wadden Sea....

Irma-Sponge proposal

After the flooding events in the recent years in the Rhine and Meuse basin and the subsequently developed action plans, awareness has grown that the issue of flood risk management has to be considered in an integrated, transnational context where hydraulic, ecological and socio-economic functions of the river system are taken into account from...

Verlauf des Rheines von Basel bis Mainz: Übersichtsdarstellung mit Hochwasserschutzsystemen

Maps of the Rhine section between Basel and Mainz including the flood defence system.

Afvoerverlooplijnen Bovenrijn 1901-1972

Graphs with the daily discharge of the Rhine river.

The canalization of the lower Rhine

A few kilometres after crossing the Dutch frontier the Waal splits off from the river Rhine and flows to the left carrying 70% of the Rhine's water. A few kilometres further down, the IJssel splits off and flows to the right carrying 12% of the water coming down the Rhine. The river Rhine turns to the left carrying the remaining 18% of its...