Planned outputs of the ALFA project are:

1. Innovative technical solutions for increased water storage capacity or discharge:
  • Management concepts to combine river and other land use functions
  • Technical water management measures
  • Innovative solutions for water storage/discharge capacity

2. Public involvement measures:
  • Communication concepts for dialogue with inhabitants and stakeholders
  • Information and educational schemes
  • Methods to create up-/downstream solidarity between stakeholders
  • Methods to compensate stakeholders

3. Social, economic and ecological benefits:
  • Measures to protect and rehabilitate ecological values
  • Measures to develop and maintain the economic potential of temporary flooded areas by combining land use functions
  • Spatial planning tools to reduce damage potential of flooding
  • Land use concepts and recreational facilities
 
 
in the spotlight
 
The Hördt floodplain reserve retention area is part of the differentiated system of flood protection in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany.
 
 
 
 
The Hördter Rheinaue case is situated in the Upper Rhine valley in southwest Germany. It encompasses part of the Rhine’s sub-recent floodplain on the left bank of the river.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
last update: Friday, 03 February 2012