FLIWAS

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FLIWAS
FLood Information and WArning System
the right information at the right place at the
right time to make the right decision
Ludolph Wentholt STOWA
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NOAH Project Partners
Cooperation with
PZH ?
(Redesign) HIS
Delfland
DWW
VIKING
Erftverband

• Ierland
• OPW (Office of Public Works
• DCC (Dublin City Council)

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GOAL
Optimize the exchange of information during
(threatening) high water situations within and
between water management and calamity management
organizations
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Intermezzo 1
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FLIWAS core/base/comfort

• FLIWAS CoreGeneric components (e.g.
  communication with databases, internal and
  external communication, import provider, plan
  module and web mapping)
• FLIWAS BaseEnd user functions for German
  project region
• FLIWAS ComfortFull functionality of FLIWAS

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FLIWAS
FLIWAS Core
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FLIWASTimetable development and implementation
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Web-based system

• No client side installation
• Any PC, Laptop or even palm top
• Internet (or intranet) access needed
• Optimized for
• MS Internet Explorer Version 7
• Mozilla Firefox Version 2

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BASE-FLIWASVisual prototype

• Web-GIS is an important component of BASE-FLIWAS
• Access to arbitrary GIS Layers
• Possibility of importing additional GIS Layers
  (e.g. communal GIS Data)
• Every user can create points of interest on the
  map

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Hydrological Information

• Hydrological information imported from existing
  providers
• User preferences user gets just relevant
  information
• Access to water-level information via map or
  list

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2D-flooding scenario

• 2D-flooding scenarios can be displayed and can be
  visualized as a movie
• In Baden-Württemberg operational predictions for
  flooded areas can be displayed

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Communication

• FLIWAS internal messaging system (messaging,
  message confirmation, log file of the
  communication during an mission)
• Gateway to email receiving and sending
• Forewarding of FLIWAS messages as email oder sms
  possible
• Interface to FAX (als PDF) possible

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Message confirmation
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Organisation and user management

• Organisations contain roles and functions that
  a person or organisation has to take.
  Functionaries in organisations have specific
  rights for using FLIWAS data and applications.
• Organsiations may have sub organisations
• Organisational hierarchy can be visualized

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Ressources

• Ressources can be several types of information
• File e.g. Word-Files, PDF-Files, images...
• Article Documents created with FLIWAS. Provides
  rich layout facilities.
• Location Locations with relevance desaster
  management, can be displayed in the map
• Contact External contact data
• Depots Adminitration of auxiliaries

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Ressource File e.g. word-files, PDF-files or
images
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Emergency plans

• The core application of FLIWAS All other
  applications provide data for the emergency plans.

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Selection of an emergency plan
Emergency plans Each Organisation can create
one or several emergency plan (e.g. a plan for
each each monitored object)
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Actions
Overview of the actions of emergency plan Plan 1
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Evaluation

• With a diagram

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Evaluation
Log file of all action during a mission
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Evaluation Status of an emergency plan and its
actions can be shown for any time in the past
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Evaluation Viewing past water level information
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Future of FLIWAS

• After the exercise
• Participation of other waterboards and
  Rijkswaterstaatdiensten
• Enlarging the project to safety regions,
  provinces en communities
• Development of additional functionality
• Extra modules functionality for coast and dike
  analysis
• International cooperation

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Future of FLIWAS

• JONAS Anchor FLIWAS in crisismanagement
• Using FLIWAS at different levels (action,
  operational, strategic)
• Multidisciplinary exercises
• Attention for improvement communication
  government ??public during floods
• Prospects for implementation (score-card)
• Development knowledge centre
• River and coast

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Future of FLIWAS

• Attention for evacuation
• Link with other initiatives (Taskforce Flood
  Management, national large scale exercise in
  November 2008)
• Publication scientific and popular
• Fix results for further use by other
  organisations
• Training material and user guides

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Intermezzo 2
Wenn man die Flut nicht verhindern kann, sollte
man zumindest gut darauf vorbereitet
sein! NOAH! WWW.FLIWAS.EU
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Thank You
Questions?
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Implementation FLIWAS

• Commitment Fliwas Waterboards in the Netherlands
• Dutch Rivers High water in 1993 and 1995
• Development GDH Automatic Calamity Plan for
  High Water
• Partner in NOAH (international experiences)
• FLIWAS International development
• Working groups for implementation and excercise

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Implementation FLIWAS

• Main functions for Waterboards
• Automatic measurements waterlevel
• Defining actions, linked to waterlevels, for
• Structural works and dike watch
• Organisation
• Communication
• Monitoring actions (watch dog)

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Implementation FLIWAS

• Aims for Waterboards
• High water situation clearly presented in graphs
  and maps
• Improvement management high water and flood
• Support for maintaining structural works during
  high water
• Support for communication internal, with partners
  and with public
• Tool for cooperation and collaboration with
  partners (safety regions, provinces, communities,
  government)

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Implementation FLIWAS

• Implementation steps
• Projectplan Implementation
• Test Fliwas modules
• Hard- and software operational
• Conversion data into Fliwas
• Training
• Exercise
• Evaluation

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Flood exercise FLIWAS River Maas
When will it be held? Who will participate? Why
will we exercise? What and where? How and with
what? What will be done with the results?
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Flood exercise FLIWAS River Maas
When? Spring 2008
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Flood exercise FLIWAS River Maas
Who? Waterboard Rivierenland Waterboard Roer en
Overmaas Waterboard Aa en Maas Institute for
Inland Water Management and Waste Water
Treatment, Directorate-General for Public Works
and Water Management Rijkswaterstaat Dienst
Limburg Rijkswaterstaat Dienst Zuid-Holland
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Flood exercise FLIWAS River Maas
Why? To get full scale information and warnings
at the right time in and between organisations by
using FLIWAS.

• Information about
• facts (measurements)
• dilemmas
• assistance (emergency measures)
• communication strategie
• predictable actions for structural works, dikes
  and organisations

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Flood exercise FLIWAS River Maas

• What and where?
• Action-level,
• operational level
• (and strategic level) in
• Tiel
• Den Bosch
• Sittard
• Lelystad
• Maastricht
• Rotterdam
• Evaluators at every location
• High water on River Maas

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Flood exercise FLIWAS River Maas

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• To communicate and work following the internal
  calamityplans
• Not outside, only at the office
• Operational systemtest FLIWAS to use FLIWAS to
  gather information, to monitor and share it.
• Different phases of alert and alarm
• To make situation reports

How and with what ?
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Flood exercise FLIWAS River Maas

• What will be done with the results?
• Evaluation symposium
• Improving FLIWAS
• Update calamityplans
• Enlarge cooperation
• Preparing following steps