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Flood Risk Management Plans

Reviewing and updating Flood Risk Management Plans

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The challenge

The basic aim of drawing up and updating plans is to limit the potential consequences of flooding in numerous key contexts.

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The solution

Various action options for the identified problem areas are being prepared, together with a recommendation for the optimal options. 

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The impact

Recommended actions have a key impact both on the health and life of people living in problematic regions and on the performance of business activity there. 

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THE CHALLENGE

The challenge

Arcadis is the leader of a consortium which, commissioned by Państwowe Gospodarstwo Wodne Wody Polskie (Polish water management authority), is implementing a project related to reviewing and updating Flood Risk Management Plans for the areas of river basins in Poland. Arcadis is once again involved in the development of plans – in the first planning cycle, we were responsible for the plans for the basin areas of the Vistula and Pregoła Rivers, which are now being updated. New flood risk management plans for the basin areas of the Danube, Elbe and Neman Rivers are also currently under development within the project.

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The solution

The project is unique in scale and requires the involvement of a total of 129 experts from various industries (e.g. water management, hydrology, hydraulic engineering, environmental protection, economics). Taking into account the project scale, the key challenge was the time frame for drawing up the flood risk management plans.   Draft plans for the second planning cycle were developed between March and December 2020. The actions included in the plans underwent a S.M.A.R.T. analysis, and we then examined their effectiveness, environmental impact and economic efficiency (estimating potential investment outlays and comparing them to the costs of eliminating possible flood losses).

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This initiative is the largest strategic project in Poland concerning the preparation of flood prevention measures. The consortium, led by our company, was the only one to submit a tender for implementation of the project. This was possible thanks to many years of experience and knowledge of our experts as well as the analytical tools we have developed. The project required advanced organization and excellent coordination of the work – its scale is huge and its implementation was limited to only 10 months.
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The impact

The aim of the project is to reduce the risk of flooding and the consequences of possible flooding in the regions covered by the study, which has a key impact on safety in the broadest sense. The plans are used as a basis for implementing a long-term flood prevention strategy at many levels of flood risk management. They are prepared taking into account all of the stages of flooding – from prevention to protection and a state of due preparation, including forecasting and the implementation of early warning systems. 

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