Water Resilient Cities: Increasing urban resilience to climate change through improved storm water management

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A France - Belgium - The Netherlands - United Kingdom (Les Deux Mers / Two seas / Twee Zeeën)

Date of latest update: 2021-12-14

Description

Description (EN):

The project aims at improving the adaptive capacity of cities to heavy rainfall by demonstrating how SUDS can be retrofitted in public areas normally constrained by existing uses and infrastructure (above or below ground), or "historic environment" protection. The project will demonstrate reduced flooding while protecting or improving amenities, biodiversity, health and wellbeing, local economies and saving public money. The adoption of these approaches will increase adaptation capacity to effects of heavy rainfall and deliver added societal benefits.

Achievements (EN):

The Water Resilient Cities (WRC) partnership has piloted sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) in five cities: Bruges, Mechelen, Middelburg, Plymouth and Wimereux. By working together the partners have been able to overcome institutional barriers and find technical solutions to test innovative approaches leading to reduced flooding while protecting and improving amenities, biodiversity, health and wellbeing. The project has also trialled the use of tree pits in locations within the five cities. The Millbay Boulevard in Plymouth is presently under construction. It links the city centre with the waterfront and ferry terminal via an attractive route that integrates sustainable urban drainage. King Albert I park in Bruges has been retrofitted to resolve problems of storm water storage and water quality in a very sensitive historic area, creating an additional buffer of 400 m3 water and improving the water quality. In Wimereux, Foch Square has been refurbished using a draining concrete product based on shellfish waste. An innovative underground basin has been built creating over 1,000 m3 of new buffering capacity. In the Dauwendaele district of Middelburg, the De Overloper sustainable drainage system is being implemented next to a shopping centre. And for the redesign of the Molenwater park, residents were given a real say in the final design of a 2,200 m3 rainwater storage system, offering flood protection to 270 surrounding houses. And the historic course of the River Dijle in Mechelen has been opened up. The former car park is now a new waterside space and the Melaan brook is being opened to increase storm water storage capacity by 27,000,m3, with 130ha being better protected from flooding in the city. To help disseminate the findings from the project a SuDS Guide has been produced providing case studies and recommendations on SuDS in confined urban environments. And a SuDS Award was launched to promote best practise, with the Award winners invited to the project’s final dissemination event in Peterborough. The event attracted over 70 delegates focusing upon “Retrofitting SUDS: From Design to Delivery”. The event, along with a SuDS training workshop on the WRC Quick Scan Tool for SuDS attracted businesses, planners, designers and policy makers. This was the culmination of a successful series of other WRC network events held in Bruges, Condette, Mechelen and Middelburg which attracted an average of around 100 deletes each.

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Expected Results (EN):

Increased resilience of cities to the effects of climate change by adoption of strategic SUDS, including nature based solutions. This results in 30000m3 extra buffer capacity, protecting 250ha of urban area from flood risk. This leads to public savings by providing citywide flood protection and reducing flood damage costs. By engaging 30 SMEs and dissemination we will further enlarge buffer capacity and protected area in 2 Seas cities beyond the project sites (50 cities reached).

Expected Outputs (EN):

The projects main outputs will be: 1. demonstrations that develop, test and implement transferable design principles for tailor made SUDS solutions and nature based products. 2. a guide to retrofitting strategic SUDS in constrained public spaces and how to deliver added societal benefits. 3. A collaborative network and Public/SME procurement partnerships to stimulate innovation for SUDS. Public authorities and professionals responsible for drainage, citizens and businesses protected from flooding are the main beneficiaries. SMEs will benefit from better collaboration and information.

Thematic information

Urban development Managing natural and man-made threats, risk management

Specific Objective: Improve the ecosystem-based capacity of 2 Seas stakeholders to climate change and its associated water-related effects

Thematic Objective: (05) promoting climate change adaptation, risk prevention and management by:

Investment Priority: (05a) supporting investment for adaptation to climate change, including ecosystem-based approaches

Partners (14)

Lead Partner: Plymouth City Council

Department: Strategic Planning and Infrastructure

Address: West Hoe Road, PL1 3BJ Plymouth, United Kingdom

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 1 568 891.05

ERDF budget: EUR 941 334.63

De Vlaamse Waterweg nv

Name: De Vlaamse Waterweg nv

Department: Sea-Scheldt-Seacanal department

Address: Havenstraat 44, 3500 Hasselt, Belgium

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 441 427.65

ERDF budget: EUR 264 856.59

Syndicat mixte pour le schéma d'aménagement et de gestion des eaux du Boulonnais (SYMSAGEB)

Name: Syndicat mixte pour le schéma d'aménagement et de gestion des eaux du Boulonnais (SYMSAGEB)

Department: Flood prevention unit

Address: 5, rue de l’Eglise, 62360 Saint Léonard, France

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 140 469.25

ERDF budget: EUR 84 281.55

Boulogne-sur-Mer Développement Côte d’Opale

Name: Boulogne-sur-Mer Développement Côte d’Opale

Department: Planning

Address: Site de l’hoverport – Le Portel – BP 611, 62321 Boulogne sur mer cedex, France

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 148 263.00

ERDF budget: EUR 88 957.80

Gemeente Middelburg

Name: Gemeente Middelburg

Department: Department of Engineering

Address: Kanaalweg - 3 Postbus 6000, 4530 Middelburg, Netherlands

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 1 179 199.80

ERDF budget: EUR 707 519.88

South West Water Ltd

Name: South West Water Ltd

Department: Flood Risk

Address: Rydon Lane, EX2 7HR Exeter, United Kingdom

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 357 879.95

ERDF budget: EUR 214 727.97

Green Blue Urban Ltd

Name: Green Blue Urban Ltd

Department: none

Address: Compass Park, Junction Road, TN32 5BS Bodiam, United Kingdom

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 300 173.50

ERDF budget: EUR 180 104.10

Waterwegen en Zeekanaal NV

Name: Waterwegen en Zeekanaal NV

Department: Sea-Scheldt division

Address: Oostdijk 110, 2830 Willebroek, Belgium

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 421 874.20

ERDF budget: EUR 253 124.52

Stad Mechelen

Name: Stad Mechelen

Department: Department city development, city infrastructure

Address: Grote Markt , 2800 Mechelen, Belgium

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 764 583.45

ERDF budget: EUR 458 750.07

City of Bruges

Name: City of Bruges

Department: European Department

Address: Burg 12, BE 8000 Bruges, Belgium

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 859 337.00

ERDF budget: EUR 515 602.20

VIVES Noord

Name: VIVES Noord

Department: Research group Ecotechnology

Address: Xaverianenstraat 10, 8200 Bruges, Belgium

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 192 530.15

ERDF budget: EUR 115 518.09

Vives Zuid

Name: Vives Zuid

Department: Ecotechnology

Address: Doorniksesteenweg 145, 8500 KORTRIJK, Belgium

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 194 846.25

ERDF budget: EUR 116 907.75

Commune de Condette

Name: Commune de Condette

Department: none

Address: 28 rue de la Marne , 62360 Condette, France

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 98 702.00

ERDF budget: EUR 59 221.20

Ville de Wimereux

Name: Ville de Wimereux

Department: .

Address: Place du Roi Albert 1er, 62930 WIMEREUX, France

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 1 086 891.96

ERDF budget: EUR 652 135.18

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Water Resilient Cities: Increasing urban resilience to climate change through improved storm water management

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Syndicat mixte pour le schéma d'aménagement et de gestion des eaux du Boulonnais (SYMSAGEB)

Water Resilient Cities: Increasing urban resilience to climate change through improved storm water management

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Boulogne-sur-Mer Développement Côte d’Opale

Water Resilient Cities: Increasing urban resilience to climate change through improved storm water management

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Plymouth City Council

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Gemeente Middelburg

Water Resilient Cities: Increasing urban resilience to climate change through improved storm water management

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South West Water Ltd

Water Resilient Cities: Increasing urban resilience to climate change through improved storm water management

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Green Blue Urban Ltd

Water Resilient Cities: Increasing urban resilience to climate change through improved storm water management

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Waterwegen en Zeekanaal NV

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Stad Mechelen

Water Resilient Cities: Increasing urban resilience to climate change through improved storm water management

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City of Bruges

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VIVES Noord

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Vives Zuid

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Commune de Condette

Water Resilient Cities: Increasing urban resilience to climate change through improved storm water management

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Ville de Wimereux

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Summary

Project name (EN): Water Resilient Cities: Increasing urban resilience to climate change through improved storm water management

Project acronym: WRC

Project start date: 2016-11-25

Project end date: 2020-12-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 7 755 069.21

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 4 653 041.53

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 60.00%

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 4 653 041.53.

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Greening the Grey - A guide to retrofitting sustainable drainage systems into urban areas

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Brochure / magazine / manual

Data source: http://www.interreg2seas.eu/

Publication date: 2022-11-02

Document date: 2016-11-25

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Reports

Assessment of the Climate Change Risks and Vulnerabilities in the Historic Centre of Brugge

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: http://www.interreg2seas.eu/

Publication date: 2022-11-02

Document date: 2019-03-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Hemelwaterplan Mechelen

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: http://www.interreg2seas.eu/

Publication date: 2022-11-02

Document date: 2020-01-24

Languages: nl

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Presentations

Action Plan Middelburg: City center drainage masterplan

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: http://www.interreg2seas.eu/

Publication date: 2022-11-02

Document date: 2019-06-30

Languages: en

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Maps

SuDS_Map

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Map

Data source: http://www.interreg2seas.eu/

Publication date: 2022-11-02

Document date: 2020-06-30

Languages: fr, en, nl

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2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A France - Belgium - The Netherlands - United Kingdom (Les Deux Mers / Two seas / Twee Zeeën)

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