Activities

Water management in Flanders faces major challenges to better adapt society to increasingly frequent weather extremes. The Flemish landscape is drained on a large scale and smarter drainage might lead to a significant increase in water storage. Recently, many new research and demonstration projects have been started that study how different forms of level control and active water level management in canals and drainage pipes influence groundwater recharge and water storage in the soil. This study day will bring together researchers, water managers and users to share and discuss their methods and results.

The day will consist of two parts:

Part I: scientific knowledge exchange through presentations in thematic sessions (9:00 - 13:30) NL/EN
Presentations (9:00-11:45)
Session 1: Monitoring the effectiveness of weirs or level-controlled drainage from field to landscape scale
Session 2: Scaling up local measures to basin scale: how to do it?
Session 3: Which level, when, where: tools to achieve optimal level management.
Lunch and poster session (11:45-13:30)

Part II: workshop on services to farmers for installing and managing weirs. Via Service Blueprint, together with stakeholders from Water-Land-Schap coalitions, we are working out a first step towards a service provision for farmers to install and manage weirs. The workshop focuses on concrete practical cases. The number of places is limited. (13:30-16:00) (in Dutch)

When? 10 November 2022
Where? Graaf de Ferraris-gebouw, Brussel
This workshop is organized by AGROLINK Water in collaboration with the research consortium TURQUOISE (UAntwerpen, KULeuven, ILVO)