HOW TO USE FLOODPLAINS FOR FLOOD RISK ... - SGGW

Figure 7. Policy- and decision-makers contribute to the production of these
guidelines at the Ecoflood Stakeholder Workshop (Delft, January 2004)
Photo: E. Penning/WL Delft Hydraulics
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PART I – Introduction
These guidelines have been developed
specifically for European rivers. They apply
to a river’s middle reaches, but not estuaries
or headwaters.
The upper limit is defined as the point on a
river upstream of which there is no capacity
to store significant amounts of water in the
floodplain.
The lower limit is defined as the tidal limit
of a river, and therefore does not include
the restoration of intertidal saltmarshes
through managed realignment of sea defences.
It is anticipated that this topic will
be covered in a future project.
Figure 8. Example of a typical lowland floodplain on which water can be stored during floods (River Ottery, Southwest England)
Photo: M. Blackwell/SWIMMER
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