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Siret Water Basin Administration, Bacau, Romania
DOI:
10.4316/GEOREVIEW.2014.24.1.165
Pages:
38 - 53
Abstract:
The hydrometrical monitoring of the water courses
represents a major step in apprehending the hydrological regime.
The old systems of monitoring imposed - in special circumstances –
great efforts from operators, who sometimes reached exhaustion. For
example, a flood in the lower basin of the Siret River extends on a
period of even more than a week; meanwhile the gauging station
observer must provide recorded data at least three to three hours.
Lately new monitoring programs have been introduced to cover both
classical gauging stations, and especially automatic stations which are
already installed in the field.
DESWAT Project (Destructive Water) which was conducted with the
financial and technical support of USAID (United States Agency for
Investment and Development) and USTDA (U.S. Trade and Development
Agency) aims to elaborate appropriate recommendations in the field of
flood protection, including public information, and modernization of
hydrological monitoring network in the Siret River Basin, using the latest
technology. Siret Water Administration has currently 82 automatic
gauging stations and 35 independent automatic rainfall stations from
the DESWAT project. The information collected by the automatic
stations represents basic elements for the hydrological forecasting
program RFS (River Forecast System).
As a result of the project "Plan for Prevention, Protection and
Mitigation of floods in the Siret River Basin" (Part I) there were
obtained hydrological risk maps for the Siret River and its main
tributaries, so that in Part II of the same project to be obtained risk
maps for the smaller tributaries. As result of the project, Siret Water
Administration also benefited of the hydrologic modelling software ISIS
necessary to adjust and update the maps.
The EASTAVERT Project will be implemented by the partner institutions
for water management in Romania, Ukraine and Moldova, and aims to
reduce the vulnerability to flooding of the communities in the border
regions by carrying out upgrading works at the hydrological complex
Stanca-Costesti, improving the warning system by installing monitoring
systems in the Siret and Prut River Basins and increasing the
responsiveness of the population through information.
Keywords:
river network, automated hydrometrical station, DESWAT, RFS, EASTAVERT