Catchment management system phase 1: hydraulics

Hydrological and hydrodynamic modelling in catchment management planning for flood defence issues.

• From: Environment Agency, Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Research and Development Programme and Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 12 February 2021

• Category: Understanding risks from all sources of flooding
• Topics: Asset system optimisation, Flood risk assessment, Hydrology, Modelling, Offsite methods and remote techniques, Surface water
• Project status: Completed
• Project code: FD0114
• Date of completion: 31 March 2001

Documents

Catchment management system phase 1: hydraulics final report (12 KB) PDF

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Details

This EUROTAS project builds a prototype integrated catchment management system (CMS) for catchment management planning with reference to flood defence issues. It aims to improve the effectiveness and economic performance of river flood defence activities by ensuring that they do not conflict with other functions. It also ensures that they are technically, economically and environmentally sustainable.

Outcome

The results of this project have been circulated through scientific papers, an end of project conference and implementation of the prototype integrated modelling framework. This implementation was demonstrated for UK conditions by HR Wallingford and UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology as the ‘Thames Catchment Study’. This also included support from the Environment Agency Thames Region.

This project ran from 1997 to 2001 at a cost of £200,000.

Published 12 February 2021