River Delta Development

1st years students had an interactive outing to Tiel Water Treatment Plant! 🦦
During this excursion they learned how waste water treatment is collected, processed, and reintroduced in the dutch river system.🚽🚿
The country demonstrates high-quality standards in reintroduced treated water, a key indicator of overall water quality. 🚰
The group also discussed the increasing challenges infrastructure faces with of extreme weather events. Intense rain events calls for alternative localized nature based solutions to intercept runoff and process it, alleviating stress from the water treatment plant infrastructure.

Final Phase - Suzan Langebeeke

Reduce the peak of the Piura river to protect from floodings
Suzan her research is focussing on measures of the Dutch Room for the River method in Piura Peru. The northern region of Peru, Piura, is dealing with extreme rains due to El Nino weather phenomen once in the 5 to 7 years. This extreme rain can not be handled by the river system and lots of cities, villages and farmlands are flooded. The organisations in Piura started with a plan to built reservoirs to store water, but this might not be enough to store all the extra water. Therefore Suzan is doing research about extra implementations of Room for the River along the river as well.

Suzan is analysing the locations of the river based on the Room for the River and River21 method (also used for the Scheldt excursion), next to this she is holding interviews and intervention workshops to determine regulations for measures and possibilities of specific measures at specific locations.

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On Monday the 27th, the RDD 1st semester students and others, presented their final living lab works in front of the Delta Climate Center conference.
Have look!