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Tailor Made Collaboration Tailor Made Collaboration a Clever Combination TAILOR MADE COLLABORATION MADE TAILOR TAILOR MADE COLLABORATION A CLEVER COMBINATION A CLEVER COMBINATION OF PROCESS AND CONTENT AND PROCESS OF COMBINATION CLEVER A OF PROCESS AND CONTENT Ruimte voor de Rivier www.ruimtevoorderivier.nl ROOM FOR THE RIVER Facts and Figures PLANNING Initiation (Start): 2007 Completion (End): 2015 THE TRIGGER In 1993 and 1995, the water levels in the rivers were dangerously high. In 1995, OBJECTIVES Safer river catchment areas. 250.000 As a result of giving the rivers people and a million animals had to more room, it will be possible be evacuated. for the River Rhine to safely transport 16.000 m3 of water per second to the BUDGET sea. That is 1,000 m³/s more than is currently possible (equivalent to approximately 4,000 baths full of water). 2,3 More attractive river catchment areas. billion euros Making room for the river is an ideal opportunity to improve the spatial quality of the catchment areas: for example, WORK CARRIED OUT improving urban and rural The Rivers IJssel, development, creating more Rhine, Lek and Waal recreational areas, and were given more strengthening the economy. room at 34 different locations. IMPLEMENTATION N ine Provinces, municipalities, water authorities and the Directorate General for Public Works and different methods Water Management (Rijkswaterstaat) are jointly were chosen. responsible for carrying out the Room for the River Programme. The Minister of Infrastructure and the Environment is ultimately responsible; this responsibility is also shared by the Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. room for the river A short summary High water level protection for the four million inhabitants of the river catchment areas: that is what the Room for the River Programme is working towards. It is a unique programme because as well as making the areas safer, it addresses spatial quality issues in the areas at the same time; an ideal opportunity to improve them. It is a programme with impact because 150 houses and 40 businesses need to be relocated to make room for the rivers. This calls for careful choices to be made and as much support from the local communities as possible. That is why the government and the regions are working intensively together to come up with optimal solutions. The result is: better plans and fewer chances of delay in implementation. This new approach definitely works. The planning phase is over and the majority of projects are currently being implemented. Most of them will be completed by 2015. PROJECTS RUIMTE VOOR DE RIVIER IJSSELDELTA KETELMEER DIJKVERLEGGING WESTENHOLTE MARKERMEER Kampen Zwolle Lelystad UITERWAARDVERGRAVING SCHELLER EN OLDENELER BUITENWAARDEN IJSSEL HOOGWATERGEUL VEESSEN- WAPENVELD Haarlem Almere Amsterdam UITERWAARDVERGRAVING UITERWAARDVERGRAVING BOLWERKSPLAS, WORP EN KEIZERS-, STOBBEN- EN OSSENWAARD OLSTERWAARDEN DIJKVERBETERING LEK / BETUWE / TIELER- Deventer EN CULEMBORGERWAARD Hilversum UITERWAARDVERGRAVING DIJKVERLEGGING Apeldoorn DE TOLLEWAARD VOORSTERKLEI Amersfoort UITERWAARDVERGRAVING Leiden UITERWAARDVERGRAVING OBSTAKELVERWIJDERING DOORWERTHSCHE WAARDEN BOSSENWAARD, PONTWAARD Zutphen MACHINISTENSCHOOL ELST DIJKVERLEGGING EN HEERENWAARD UITERWAARDVERGRAVING CORTENOEVER MIDDELWAARD UITERWAARD- DIJKVERBETERING Utrecht VERGRAVING DIJKVERBETERING DIJKVERBETERING LEK / ALBLASSERWAARD MEINERSWIJK Den Haag NEDERRIJN / NEDERRIJN / ARNHEMSE- EN VIJFHEERENLANDEN GELDERSCHE EN VELPSEBROEK VALLEI DIJKVERLEGGING DIJKVERBETERING Velp HONDSBROEKSCHE PLEIJ NIEUWE WATERWEG LEK / LOPIKER- EN NEDERRIJN KRIMPENERWAARD UITERWAARDVERGRAVING LEK Arnhem Culemborg PANNERDENSCH HUISSENSCHE WAARDEN Rotterdam KANAAL NIEUWE MAAS UITERWAARDVERGRAVING UITERWAARDVERGRAVING Tiel AVELINGEN UITERWAARDVERGRAVING MILLINGERWAARD DIJKVERBETERING WAAL NOORD MUNNIKENLAND OUDE MAAS / VOORNE PUTTEN ONTPOLDERING BOVEN-RIJN KRIBVERLAGING OUDE MAAS NOORDWAARD KRIBVERLAGING BENEDEN-WAAL Nijmegen MERWEDE MIDDEN-WAAL OBSTAKELVERWIJDERING Dordrecht HARINGVLIET SPUI SUIKERDAM / GENDTSE WAARD DIJKVERBETERING DIJKTERUGLEGGING STEUR- LENT GAT STEURGAT / KRIBVERLAGING NIEUWE KRIBVERLAGING MERWEDE LAND VAN ALTENA WAALBOCHTEN DIJKVERBETERING DORDTSCHE KIL WAAL FORT ST. ANDRIES HOLLANDSCH OUDE MAAS / HOEKSCHE WAARD DIEP DIJKVERBETERING AMER BERGSCHE MAAS ’s-Hertogenbosch NEDERRIJN / BETUWE / KRAMMER/ TIELER- EN CULEMBORGERWAARD VOLKERAK KADEVERLAGING ZUIDERKLIP RIVIERVERRUIMING OVERDIEPSE POLDER KADEVERLAGING WATERBERGING BIESBOSCH VOLKERAK-ZOOMMEER DIJKVERBETERING DIJKVERBETERING AMER / DONGE BERGSCHE MAAS / LAND VAN ALTENA ZOOMMEER Bergen op Zoom Eindhoven current projects implementation no longer necessary due to extra decrease in water level obtained by neighbouring projects measures FlOOdPlaIn ExCaVaTIOn dEPOldERInG By removing layers of soil from certain parts of the The dyke on the riverside of a polder is relocated floodplains, more room is created for the river when further away from the river. This depolders the area the water level rises. and enables water from the river to flood this area at times of high water. RElOCaTIOn OF dyKES STREnGTHEnInG dyKES By relocating dykes further away from the river, The dykes are strengthened at a number of locations the floodplains become wider, giving the river where making room for the river is not an option. more room. RIVERBEd ExCaVaTIOn WaTER storaGE The riverbed is made deeper by taking away the top As a result of the controlled combination of a closed layer of the riverbed. Because the riverbed is lower, flood gate and large volumes of river water flowing to there is more capacity for river water. the sea, the Volkerak-Zoommeer serves as an area of temporary water storage. HIGH WaTER CHannEl LowerinG BREaKWaTER SPuRS A high water channel is formed between two Breakwater spurs ensure that the river does not alter its dykes. The channel branches off from the river course or lose depth. However, at times of high water, and transports some of the river water via spurs slow down the flow of the water. By lowering another route at times of high water. them, the water has a better chance of being transported away faster. Removal OF obstaClES Where possible, removing or redesigning obstacles in the riverbed ensures that the water flows faster. project Deventer: unique combi­ nation of land, nature and water management The IJssel Countryside Foundation was increasing biodiversity, water management responsible for setting up the unique and making sure the area lends itself to KeizersRande organic farm on the recreational activities. floodplains of the River Ijssel, just north of Deventer. This is a modern, organic dairy In addition to increasing high water level farm that economically unites agriculture, protection, Room for the River has led to a nature, ecology and recreation. In addition unique combination of activities: a viable to the tasks normally carried out on a farm, dairy farm with vegetation and water there are also other responsibilities such as management responsibilities. vegetation management on a large scale, project Lower Rhine: faster excavation of floodplain The four Lower Rhine projects are unique streamlined with each part fitting together because of the innovative approach that seamlessly. This of course speeds up the was taken. The planning and realization work to be done and also makes it cheaper. stages were the responsibility of one The outcome was that the four projects authority. This ensured that issues that were indeed completed more quickly, would play a part in the realization phase without delays, which resulted in less were already being considered when the money being spent. plans were being drawn up; issues such as ground water streams, implementation of In addition to increasing high water level materials, and preparation of the ground protection, Room for the River has led to during the process of obtaining various wiser, cheaper and faster contracting and permits. As a result, the work was perfectly implementation procedures. project Local community partici pation in the Overdiepse Polder A particular example of local community to grow has not been compromised. If high participation was the motivation that was water levels lead to flooding in the Polder, shown in setting up the Overdiepse Polder their farmhouses will still be on dry land. Association that was made up of dairy In 2012, the Overdiepse Polder Association farmers working in the Polder who were was awarded the Water Innovation Prize in going to be affected by the Room for the the category of Local Interest Organization River Programme. Together with the and Unique Initiatives. Province of North Brabant, they came up with the idea of constructing mounds (terps) In addition to increasing high water level in the polder on which they could rebuild protection, Room for the River has enabled their farmhouses. Work was carried out and dairy farmers, on their own initiative, to their farms have now been re-located on implement a plan to build mounds for eight mounds. Furthermore, their capacity their farms. project Meinerswijk: Arnhem’s wild back garden For many years there were various ideas for Province of Gelderland made two million dealing with the Stadsblokken-Meinerswijk euros available for improving this unique area but none of them ever came to region. It is special because of its cultural anything until Room for the River came history (the Romans, the Limes border, the along. The Municipality of Arnhem brick factory, the ASM-harbour, the IJssel included the Meinerswijk floodplain Waterline, World War II) and the idea is to
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