Development of an integrated flood management system for the StendalCounty in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany – A pilot project

摘要

The last catastrophic flood event on the River Rhine, Oder and Elbe with vast damages haveintensified the societal debate about the possibilities and limits of existing flood protection measures.While theexpenditures for technical flood measures are increasing, the damages are also rising.A change from a society,where safety thinking stands in the foreground, to a risk society, where people are aware of risks, is happeningright now.The consideration is shifting from only technical flood control towards flood plain management andflood prevention.How to put this new flood management strategy into practice is described by a pilot project inStendal County in Saxony-Anhalt (Germany).A GIS-supported web-based Flood Management System –FloMS was developed between October 2002 and December 2004 to optimize the existing flood protection systemon the municipal scale.The system will soon be implemented at the county level.Furthermore this pilotproject is integrated into the European INTERREG IIIB project "ELBE-LABE spatial planning flood managementstrategies (ELLA)".The priority objective of ELLA is the improvement of flood prevention by spatialplanning measures until the mid of 2006.