Management of Upstream Dams and Flood Protection of the Transboundary River Evros/Maritza

Panagiotis Angelidis (), Michalis Kotsikas and Nikos Kotsovinos

Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), 2010, vol. 24, issue 11, 2467-2484

Abstract: The flood frequency and the dikes overtopping at the downstream part of transboundary (Bulgaria–Greece–Turkey) river Evros/Maritza has increased dramatically in the last 13 years. It is not clear if the increase of flood frequency is due to climatic changes or to inappropriate management of Bulgarian dams. This fact raises the question of modeling the flood routing through the many dams in the Bulgarian territory (upstream), which receive the runoff of the 38% of the area of the Evros watershed in Bulgaria, in a way to protect the downstream countries from flooding. The basic objective of this paper is the development of a new management tool (software) for the simulation of the rainfall–runoff and routing process taking into account the existence of many dams and mainly their operation not only from a hydrologic viewpoint, but also from the administrative, with emphasis on the “energy–economic” exploitation of the reservoirs. The developed software (named Evrofloods) models the rainfall–runoff, the routing of runoff through the various Evros river tributaries taking in account various scenarios of the runoff through the artificial reservoirs with the aim of optimal management of the water released from the dams spillways and turbines. The “optimal management” is related with the finding for a given rainfall distribution, the appropriate combination of actions at many reservoirs (“reservoirs management”) in order to prevent or mitigate the floods downstream, aiming at the same time to minimize hydroelectric energy loss. Although Evrofloods software is basically dedicated to the large Evros basin, it can be easily used to determine the management of large transboundary rivers with many artificial reservoirs to avoid floods downstream. Recent European legislation on floods encourages the good cooperation of neighbor countries, to avoid floods. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010

Keywords: Flood; Management of dam; Transboundary basin; Evros river (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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