Challenges for mainstreaming climate change into EU flood and drought policy: Water retention measures in the Warta River Basin, Poland

Linnerooth-Bayer, J.; Dubel, Anna; Sendzimir, Jan; Hochrainer‐Stigler, Stefan

doi:10.1007/s10113-014-0643-7

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“…Increasing the volume of retained water by creating various forms of small-scale retention can increase water resources and improve the rational management of such resources, especially from a local and regional perspective (Łabędzki 2016;Linnerooth-Bayer et al 2015; Ministry of the Environment 2013; Mioduszewski et al 2014;Szwed 2015). This is particularly important in areas with limited water resources (Ceppi et al 2014;Kumar et al 2009;Ravazzani et al 2011).…”

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Estimating Water Retention in Post-mining Excavations Using LiDAR ALS Data for the Strzelin Quarry, in Lower Silesia

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A digital terrain model of the Strzelin granite quarry was created from ISOK project data obtained from airborne laser scanning (ALS). Based on 2009, 2012, and 2014 data, the volume of water in the Strzelin quarry's two excavations were determined. Additionally, the predicted volume of retained water after mining ceases was calculated, assuming a water level of 150.0 m a.s.l. In 2014, the two reservoirs retained, respectively, ≈ 0.14 and 0.01 million m 3 of water. If the two pits are eventually connected, ≈ 6.6 million m 3 of water could be retained. Including the 2014 water volume as a small-scale retention basin would increase the volume of retained water in the Ślęza catchment and Strzelin County by 19.0%, and 34.2%, respectively. The hypothetical reservoir created after mining ends would increase small-scale (reservoir and pond) retention ≈ 8 times in the Ślęza catchment and ≈ 15 times in the County, constituting a significant improvement.

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Estimating Water Retention in Post-mining Excavations Using LiDAR ALS Data for the Strzelin Quarry, in Lower Silesia

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“…Each jurisdiction attempts to reduce flood damage within a limited border and thus focuses on the use of defensive structural measures rather than measures to reduce flows. While measures that reduce flows are only able to provide limited local benefits (Linnerooth‐Bayer et al ., ), they also provide downstream benefits. These benefits may, in the aggregate, be cost effective, but in isolation, it is difficult to justify the costs, particularly as payments for implementation require that the seller have the right to sell the service.…”

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“…For other NWRM, such as polders, the primary impact is on flood risk and there are ancillary benefits for biodiversity or recreational use. As the area covered by NWRM is generally small with respect to managed (agricultural or forest) land area, their individual impact on downstream flooding is relatively minor, and therefore, their interest as a management tool for flood risk managers is also small (Linnerooth‐Bayer et al ., ; Schilling et al ., ; Cook et al ., ). This has led to an expectation that NWRM could be financed as Payments for Environmental Services (PES) either directly or through national agri‐environmental schemes (Kenyon et al ., ).…”

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“…flood or drought control, biodiversity, aesthetics, or recreational opportunities. Natural water retention measures (NWRM) are one type of green infrastructure that have been recognised as a key contributor to reducing the vulnerability of waters in Europe and elsewhere, particularly the negative effects of floods and droughts (EA, ; Burek et al ., ; ; Linnerooth‐Bayer et al ., ). When implemented successfully, NWRM have the potential to both reduce flood peaks and maintain base flows at a range of spatial scales from small urban measures such as green roofs to landscape‐scale measures such as targeted afforestation of whole catchments.…”

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Realising the potential of natural water retention measures in catchment flood management: trade‐offs and matching interests

Collentine

Futter

2016

J Flood Risk Management

119

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Natural water retention measures (NWRM) are a multifunctional form of green infrastructure that can play an important role in catchment‐scale flood risk management. While green infrastructure based on natural processes is increasingly recognised as being complementary to traditional flood control strategies based on grey infrastructure in urban areas, there are a number of outstanding challenges with their widespread uptake. At a catchment scale, it is widely accepted that NWRM in upstream areas based on the concept of ‘keeping the rain where it falls’ can help reduce the risk of downstream flooding by enhancing or restoring natural hydrological processes including interception, evapotranspiration, infiltration, and ponding. However, both the magnitude of flood risk reduction and the institutional structures needed for widespread uptake of NWRM are inadequately understood. Implementing NWRM can involve trade‐offs, especially in agricultural areas. Measures based on drainage management and short rotation forestry may help ‘keep the rain where it falls’ but can result in foregone farm income. To identify situations where the implementation of NWRM may be warranted, an improved understanding of the likely reductions in downstream urban flood risk, the required institutional structures for risk management and transfer, and mutually acceptable farm compensation schemes are all needed.

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“…The study has taken into consideration the influence of local non-climate factors and climatic factors appearing in the Vistula Basin. The achieved knowledge will allow to assess the hydrological drought threat on Vistula in Toruń and the study results may be used for local planning of water management strategies in cases of a crisis [BARKER et al 2016;LINNEROOTH-BAYER et al 2015].…”

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Impact of meteorological drought on hydrological drought in Toruń (central Poland) in the period of 1971–2015

Bąk¹,

Kubiak-Wójcicka²

2017

Journal of Water and Land Development

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The paper presents impact of meteorological drought on hydrological drought on the Vistula River in Toruń in the period of 1971-2015. It uses index method for the assessment of hydrological drought threat degree as a result of multi-month lasting meteorological drought. Based on the values of the SPI-24 (24-month standardized precipitation index) it was determined that meteorological drought in Toruń appeared six times and the total time of the phenomenon was 33% of the studied interval. Periods of hydrological drought on the Vistula River in Toruń have been determined based on the values of the SWI-24 (24-month standardized water level index). It has been found out that hydrological drought appeared four times and its total time was 10% longer that the meteorological drought. Based on the values of both indices (SPI-24 and SWI-24) correlation coefficient for months, seasons and years, it was found that the relation between both kind of droughts is weak (r < 0.5). That result is also confirmed in the distribution of both kinds of drought. Only in 32 months (8% of the total time) the intensity of the two simultaneously occurring drought was at least moderate. The achieved results revealed that the hydrological drought was occurring periodically, independent on meteorological drought. Hydrological drought was also influenced by the external factors (hydropower plant in Włocławek, Major Groundwater Basin -GZWP) and climate factors appearing in the upper and middle part of the river basin.

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Challenges for mainstreaming climate change into EU flood and drought policy: Water retention measures in the Warta River Basin, Poland

Cited by 18 publications

References 8 publications

Estimating Water Retention in Post-mining Excavations Using LiDAR ALS Data for the Strzelin Quarry, in Lower Silesia

Estimating Water Retention in Post-mining Excavations Using LiDAR ALS Data for the Strzelin Quarry, in Lower Silesia

Realising the potential of natural water retention measures in catchment flood management: trade‐offs and matching interests

Impact of meteorological drought on hydrological drought in Toruń (central Poland) in the period of 1971–2015

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