Van overschrijdingskans naar overstromingskans

De TAW heeft een methode ontwikkeld voor het bepalen van overstromingskansen en met succes de bruikbaarheid getoetst op vier dijkringgebieden. Op basis hiervan adviseert de TAW u om in een periode van twee jaar de overstromingskans van alle 53 dijkringgebieden te laten berekenen en de meest urgente kunstwerken aan een nadere inspectie te laten...

From probability of exceendance to probability of flooding

A chain is never stronger than its weakest link. This insight is the basis for the calculation method to determine the f lood probabilities of dike ring areas in the Netherlands. The TAW can already formulate first recommendations on research and policy making. This does not imply that the research on 'Flood risks: a study on probabilities and...

An Inventory of Measures and Solutions Coping with Floods around the World

From the very earliest times, man has sought to reduce the damaging impact of floods. However, despite a growing understanding of flood hydrology, plus the application of an increasingly complex technology and the injection of progressively larger capital sums, flood losses continue to rise. The concentration was principally placed on the...

Principles and guidelines for the environmental protection of drainage basins prone to flash floods: Experimental intervention in a pilot drainage basin - Experimental intervention in the basin of Civiglia Torrent

This project aims at the identification of a methodological approach for the analysis of medium-small basins prone to flash floods, this document is the conclusive study of the main territorial aspects of Civiglia basin, which represents a case study in order to put in practice the theoretic guidelines emerged in the development of project Premo...

Application of probabilistic techniques in flood protection in the Netherlands

Overview of the use of probabilistic methods in flood protection in the Netherlands; Dutch contribution the European project: European Survey of risks, safety standards and probabilistic techniques.

Principles and guidelines for the environmental protection of drainage basins prone to flash floods: Experimental intervention in a pilot drainage basin

The second Chapter refers to the institutional and legislative framework, that is, the laws in force at the different levels, from local to global, in each partner’s country and concludes with considerations on optimal levels of coordination. Chapter III begins with the methodology recommended for the study of small-medium basins, based upon the...

Design plan Oosterschelde Storm-surge barrier: Overall design and design philosophy

The 10 year struggle of the Rijkswaterstaat (State Department of Public Works) and contractors with the task to build a permeable sea defence structure in the Oosterschelde, has been registered in sixteen successive project reports which contain thousands of documents. These documents are sometimes complete part-project papers and sometimes not...

Methoden voor de bepaling van het aantal doden als gevolg van inundatie

Dit rapport handelt alleen over de bepaling van het aantal doden. Er worden empirische relaties afgeleid op basis van waarnemingscijfers. Deze waarnemingscijfers zijn vooral afkomstig van de stormramp van 1 februari 1953 in Zuid-West Nederland. Daarnaast zijn ook gegevens gebruikt van inundaties elders (Nederland, Duitsland, Frankrijk, Spanje,...

Wave forces on the Eider evacuation sluices

For a safe and efficient dimensioning of the Eider Evacuation Sluices it was necessary to know the magnitude and probability of the occurring wave forces. To determine those data a model investigation has been carried out in one of the wind flumes of the Delft Hydraulics Laboratory in charge of and in co-operation with the Bundesanstalt fur...