Status of Activities WP1 – Case Leuven

Johan Van Assel, Aquafin

November 17, 2011

Leuven Radar

• Current activities– Preparation of maintenance contract with DHI– Soft- and hardware updates necessary

• some technical problems occurring at this moment

– Identification of options for continous data downloading

• Planning– Aiming to have new setup and maintenance up

and running by end of this year.

Leuven rain gauges

• Current activities– Identification of potential new locations (4

additional gauges)– Identification of potential communication

options (realtime downloading) at existing and new locations

– Contact with potential suppliers

• Planning– Aiming to have everything up and running

around February.

Status of Activities WP2 – Case Leuven

Johan Van Assel, Aquafin

November 17, 2011

Leuven Radar and rain gauges

• Current activities– Cleanup and structured processing of all

rainfall data from previous years (90% done)

• Planning– Data processing done by end of 2011– Investigate wind effects on existing rain

gauges by comparing with RMI data• Planned January-February 2012

Status of Activities WP3 – Case Leuven

Johan Van Assel, Aquafin

November 17, 2011

Soft- and hardware

• InfoWorks CS 2D + FloodWorks purchased

• Procurement procedure for simulation PC to be started (purchase beginning 2012 ?)

Data

• Models to be updated and refined (starting January 2012)

• Details on DHM to be investigated (January 2012)

Status of Activities WP4 – Case Leuven

Johan Van Assel, Aquafin

November 17, 2011

Involvement of third parties

• Meetings with municipalities of Leuven and Herent planned (December)