Flood Forecasting Technology Workshop, Dublin, Ireland
DHI provided a keynote presentation at the recent Flood Forecasting Technology workshop held at University College Dublin (UCD). The one day workshop described some of the internationally available flood warning platforms, suitable for use in Ireland, and provided an opportunity to discuss requirements with both potential users of warning systems and stakeholders who may use their outputs.
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DHI was one of the
inventors of computational
hydraulics
We have been developing
numerical modelling
software and advanced
decision support systems
for nearly 50 years
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2. Add your own spreadsheet
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entries, and make
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job tasks.
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know it, and make it look 100%
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DataProviders
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54. Greve – Flood Warning System
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Our world is water, it is our one and only priority. For 50 years we have advanced knowledge in water environments through dedicated research and real-life experience.
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Aquaculture & agriculture – Energy – Climate change
Coast & marine – Surface & ground water – Urban water
Industry – Environment & ecosystems – Product safety & environmental risk
DHI is a global specialist in water environments.
We are a not for profit, research led organisation with a long heritage of research based scientific and engineering consultancy.
50 years of working in water environments
Working in more than 140 countries
Use software as a vehicle for sharing this knowledge
Solutions allow us to develop new approaches and tailor solutions to clients needs based on research.
Bringing our global knowledge to bear by our local presence. In over 30 countries.
Data – gauging stations, weather predictions, multiple sources, Various data sources maintain and qualify data
Model – real life and model representation 1D or 2D, complexity, model choices flexibility
Infrastructure – redundancy, back up, data reporting, Integrate with existing infrastructure utilize hardware optimally
Operations – gates, barriers, temporary storage areas etc. Dynamic system to incorporate operational aspects
Dissemination –report to stakeholders, decision makers, public etc. internally and externally
Decision maker – resposnisbility, need to make informed decisions, time is of the essence, assess situation quickly
Operator – requires overview of currentr situation, scenarios under various conditions,
Public – To be informed early and effectively with appropriate level of detail
Decision maker – responsibility, need to make informed decisions, time is of the essence, assess situation quickly
Operator – requires overview of current situation, scenarios under various conditions,
Public – To be informed early and effectively with appropriate level of detail
MIKE Workbench Spreadsheets
Build spreadsheets model and live data reports using common spreadsheeet functionality
Scripting (Openness, Extendibility)
It provides full access to all functionality in all modules.
How do we collect bits and pieces from the projects?
How do we ensure quality and tracability?
System designed with the various project roles in mind
Three main components with main roles in mind
Scheduled release is end of 2015; additional information and availability of training courses will be provided later this year.
Organisation:
Aarhus Municipality (political body) started the project and since it is consumer paid by an increase in the water tax (3 kr./l) it had to be passed by the city council
The utility Aarhus Water A/S is owned 100% by Aarhus municipality.
The project owner is Aarhus Water
Project: Integrated control and warning for urban wastewater systems during rainfall events
Client: Aarhus Water A/S
Image 1: Aarhus university rang among Top 100 in the world
Image 2: Your Rainbow Panorama - art and architecture is focus – the rainbow is on top of the AROS art museum
Image 3: Active city with sailsport, kayaking, running and general outdoor focus
Image 3: Home to the world leading windfarm manufactur VESTAS and other large leading industries
Outline of the project area:
Bordered by the sea
New housing on the harbour
River running through the city – used to be a hidden river (covered for health reasons) – is now re-opened and is a blue element in the city and many restaurants are located on its shoreline
The upstream Lake Brabrand runs into Aarhus River and feed by smaller upstreams catchments
First and foremost the rapid city development and political ambitions
EU Water Framework Directive
EU Bathing Water Directive
Image 1: Aarhus River front – restaurants and hang-out spot
Image 2: Urban Media Space/DOKK1 – new city library build on the harbour front
Image 3: Isbjerget (Icebjerg) high end housing on the harbourfront
Image 4: Swimming in Aarhus – picture from the public beach bathing facility ”Den Permanente” at Risskov (north of city center)
Provided by Aarhus Water
In 2007 to 2010 Aarhus Water made a very forward looking project in co-operation with Aarhus municipality. The project is called Water Vision 2100
The purpose of this project is to ensure ”pure water both in nature and for drinking now and in the future 2100”. To ensure this Aarhus Water have to be able to handle climate change and extreme rain in the future.
This project ensures that we come from Overall Visions for the future to concete plans of actions which is use in all our projects today and in the future.
The project incluced the 6 water disciplines:
Groundwater
Water supply
Urban wastewater
Urban stormwater
Wetlands
Landuse
Including the 6 water disciplines we take care of the whole water system.
We ensure that there will be
drinking water for all citizens in Aarhus
and pure and enough water in the rivers.
We ensure that the urban areas will fullfill the demands in the waterframe directive and the batning directive.
We allso ensure that the urban areas will be abel to adapt to climate change.
The overall Vision in the project is disintegrated into concrete plans of actions by making some scenario analysis. In the scenario analysis we tried to look into the future.
In co-operation the municipality of Aarhus and Aarhus water setup 3 estimates to ensure pure water for the future. Afterwards we made a very difficult choice – how do we believe the future looks in 2100.
The Project I am here to tell you about will ensure we fullfill the demands in the water frame directive and the bathing directive. And the project will help us to minimize flooding in urban areas.
Images from Aarhus Water
Organisation:
Aarhus Municipality (political body) started the project and since it is consumer paid by an increase in the water tax (3 kr./l) it had to be passed by the city council
The utility Aarhus Water A/S is owned 100% by Aarhus municipality.
The project owner is Aarhus Water
The implemented solution is the result of 3 projects
Note the time overlap between the last two
Red squares are retention basins. Two are located at WWTP’s (Viby and Åby)
7 scenarios were identified suitble for solving the task at hand. The most expensive senario costs around 90 mio. Euro. All weirs were removed and all the stormwater collected in several basins. The chosen scenario costs about 50 mio EURO and there will be some polution from the weirs which might cause a concentration of E-coli higher than acceptable in the bathing directive. That is why we needed to combined this solution with an early warning system.
The early warning system will get information from the whole system (River, WWTP and sewer system) and the model complex just described before.
And of course this has to be running in real time. In this system there is a risk of failure such as a stop in the calculations. Therefore the plan is to operate this real time controlling by using different methods. The use of models is the most complex and is expected to the provide the best controlling strategy.
The real time control will also be able to run even though we cannot communicate with one of the bassins, valves, lack of information from level measurements.
The chosen scenario in solution terms.
The majority of the cost is in infrastructure investment (7 new basins – and upgrade of 2 existing).
The Aarhus system has an update frequency of 10 minutes – meaning every 10 minutes a new optmised solution is computed and communicated
Schematic overview over the data infrastructure – There are in fact 3 WWTPs and a much larger sewer network.
The monitoring and control and reporting is all handled by DHI DIMS.CORE
More info: http://radar.dhigroup.com
Cost efficient small scale weather radar for use in hydrological applications.
DHI product and fully intregrated with DHI software such as DIMS.CORE and MIKE.
MIKE SHE delivers truly integrated modelling of groundwater, surface water, recharge and evapotranspiration — in short, all the aspects of hydrology that are important if your project requires an integrated model. No other tool or combination of tools can match MIKE SHE in terms of seamless integration (M11)
MIKE 11 is synonymous with top quality river modelling covering more application areas than any other river modelling package.
MIKE URBAN is the urban water modelling software of choice when the important parameters for model selection are usability, work flow, openness, flexibility and GIS integration as well as physical soundness, efficiency and stability of simulation engines.
MIKE URBAN covers all water in the city, including:
sewers - combined or separate systems or any combination of these
storm water drainage systems, including 2D overland flow
water distribution systems
MIKE URBAN is a complete integration of GIS and water modelling
MIKE 3 provides the simulation tools if you need to model 3D free surface flows and associated sediment or water quality processes. MIKE 3 is widely recognized as the gold standard for environmental and ecological studies
LAWR: Cost efficient small scale weather radar designed for hydrology needs
DIMS.CORE: DIMS.CORE is designed for building solutions that transform data into information for operations and management of utilities. Typical application areas • Wastewater treatment plants • Water supply and distribution • Collection systems DIMS.CORE is a generic and flexible tool also applicable within other domains, such as: • Monitoring, reporting and real time control (RTC) for industries • Real time monitoring of catchment areas integrating surveillance data from deployed automatic equipment • Real time monitoring and control of water intakes for early warning systems • Integration with decision support systems (DSS) and information management systems (IMS) FeaturesData integrationDIMS.CORE is used for linking SCADA system data and models in projects that implement monitoring and/or model based RT control systems.
Data from combined sewer overflows to the harbour and the coast combined with the model output from River Aarhus are used as boundary conditions for the bathing water forecast model (hosted DHI service)
The core of the bathing water forecast (BWF) system is dynamic models (1D, 2D or 3D) with which the physical conditions and the water quality at the bathing water sites can be simulated. Besides being the basis for early warning, the model system can be used to assess the efficiency of different measures. This provides a strong tool for identification of the most cost-effective measures to reduce contamination - a target which is also an important element of the new bathing water directive. Meeting this target is furthermore in accordance with the 6th Environmental Action Programme.
The concept of the predictive on-line Bathing Water Forecast System has been developed and proven technically feasible by Copenhagen, Gentofte municipality and Aarhus municipality. The way input data is acquired varies depending upon local needs and economy; from measurements directly in the sewer system to dynamic or empirical modelling of the sources. The source data is automatically provided to the recipient model ensuring current updates of the water quality information. Finally, the results are disseminated though a web-based communication component. The concept is applicable and operational for both marine and fresh water beaches under different conditions (various sources, weather conditions
Contact: Hanne Kaas, DHI for more info on the bathing water forecast
http://bathingwater.dhigroup.com/services/WaterQualityForecast.html#
When building such integrated systems multiple authorities and organisations are often involved. In this project the ground water model (MSHE) is operated by the Municipality and the bathing water forecast (M3) is a DHI service – the rest is a Aarhus Water. Required boundary data and other essential information are communicated by the internet.
The are pro and cons for this approach – but one pro is that as the models are kept in with their ”owners” they are maintained and updated better and is it avoided to have multiple version of the same models.
DIMS.CORE handles all the data transfers
Image 1: Easter 2014 recreational use of Lake Brabrand for sports competion
Image 2: Aarhus Festuge (Aarhus Cultural Festival Week)
Image 3: Aarhus Harbour Beach bar – the harbour bath is not yet open
Warning system saves ~25 mio € in smaller basins because one yearly compliant event is allowed (if warned) compared to one every 4 years with out warning system (EU Bathing water directive)
Organisation:
Aarhus Municipality (political body) started the project and since it is consumer paid by an increase in the water tax (3 kr./l) it had to be passed by the city council
The utility Aarhus Water A/S is owned 100% by Aarhus municipality.
The project owner is Aarhus Water
Project: Integrated control and warning for urban wastewater systems during rainfall events
Client: Aarhus Water A/S
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flooding4U2!
StormGeo = Nowegian meteorological service
Boundary Conditions
Water level from Water forecast
Rainfall forecast from StormGeo
but it takes meteorological data as input for a MUF model
that runs every 4h
and forcasts the next 24h
the dfs2 output file is than the base for the web-solution