THE INFLUENCE OF THE PRESENCE OF VEGETATIONS IN FLOODPLAINS ON FLOOD RISKS

• Main Authors: Natalia Walczak, Mateusz Hammerling, Marcin Spychała, Jakub Nieć
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Polish Society of Ecological Engineering (PTIE) 2015-11-01
• Series: Journal of Ecological Engineering
• Subjects: flood area; flow velocity; resistance coefficient; roughness coefficient; vegetation
• Online Access: http://www.journalssystem.com/jeeng/THE-INFLUENCE-OF-THE-PRESENCE-OF-VEGETATIONS-IN-FLOODPLAINS-ON-FLOOD-RISKS,60473,0,2.html

The movement of water on flood areas depends mainly on the geometric parameters of vegetation, which as a dynamic factor causes a high changeability of flow conditions during the year. The actual ecological trend, whereby there is a tendency to leave the plants in the floodplain, imposes the necessity on engineers to develop accurate methods of determining the effect of vegetation on what used to be once a commonly occurring flood risk. According to the report on national security risk, elaborated by the Government Security Centre, flooding is the most common such risk. This is most likely to occur among all the risks included in the National Crisis Management Plan and brings the greatest number of negative effects. In order to mitigate the negative phenomena related to floodplains, the methodology and calculation of the average flows, using the Maninng and Darcy-Weisbach models is presented.