Water management and flood protection

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Water management and flood protection

• Connecting and protecting deltas

Piet Dircke, Program Director, GKN Water ARCADIS
Imagine the result
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Contents

• ARCADIS Global Knowledge Network Water
• Water Management and flood control in Europe
• Netherlands
• European Union
• France
• Water management and flood control in the USA
  Latin America
• Brazil
• New Orleans
• California
• Florida
• New York

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GKN water knowledge exchange
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Sea defences Hondsbosche Pettemer Zeewering,
Zuiderdijk hoorn-Enkhuizen)
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River dikes and leveesNational rivers levees
emergency act

• Almost-floods of 1993/1995
• Evacuation of 250.000 people
• Most of the emergency levee reinforcement works
• Room for the river, Meuse River works

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Closure dams Afsluitdijk
Plan Waterlely Tidal energy, flood protection
ecosystem recovery
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5 year National levee safety inspection program

• Levees, dikes, dunes (category A and
  B) 2006 (2001)
• 1264 km meets the standard 44 (40 )
• 680 km does not meet the standard 24 (19 )
• 931 km no judgement 32 (41 )

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Dutch Delta Commission II (2008) adapting to
climate change
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Flood Control 2015 Integration of IT technology

• Towards a smart flood control organization
• Improve quality of decision making during
  emergencies
• Fast real time prediction of calculated risks

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Innovation in materials design BASF
elastocoast, wave overtopping resistant
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Storm surge barriers

• Design construction
• Risk management

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Estuaries coastal restorationScheldt Estuary
Netherlands and Belgium
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• European Union Exchange of Experiences and
  Comparative Analysis for ICZMContractor ARCADIS
  Sub-contractor Coastal Marine Union
  (EUCC)Jan 2009 Dec 2011

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Canal Seine Nord Europe

• 2005 by VNF (Voie Navegable France)
• Design of lock levelling system, including water
  saving basins for 7 locks
• Nautical design of outer harbours
• Design mooring system, wave damping
• Design of civil engineering works of the locks
  (structural and geotechnical)

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Brazil Ports of Itajaí Navegantes

• Estimation of additional sedimentation as a
  result of the executed dredging works
• Nautical study, Three dimensional hydraulic flow
  computations
• Vertical ship motion computations ship
  manoeuvring simulations
• Evaluation of the future layout
• Determination of the limiting conditions

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HPO system New Orleans
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GIWW Sector Gate
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IHNC storm surge barrier
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New Orleans a wake up callUSA Deltas with
opportunities for GKN Water
New York City
California Bay-Delta
Florida Everglades
Louisiana
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California San Francisco Bay Delta
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Florida SFWMD CERP Comprehensive Everglades
Restoration Plan
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New York Verrazano Barrier Conceptual design
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Verrazano Narrows Barrier Artist impression