Klaas-Jan van Heeringen
Operational water management and real-time control
+31 (0)88 335 8490
klaasjan.vanheeringen@deltares.nlVan Heeringen is a Hydraulic Engineer with a broad experience in both the water quantity and water quality aspects of urban and rural drainage and hydrology, as well as their real-time use in early warning systems. He joined Deltares in 1996 and participated in developing and applying various modeling software packages, with a personal emphasis on hydraulic modeling in combination with Real-Time Control and Water Quality.
His experience abroad includes projects in Egypt (control of El-Salam Irrigation Canal), Taiwan (1D and 2D hydraulic flood simulations), Nepal (management and control of Marchwar Lift Irrigation Project), Cambodia (Mekong River Flood Forecasting) and Indonesia (1D and 2D hydraulic flood simulations). Since 2005, he has been involved in the development of several flood early warning systems, with an increasing focus on the Real-Time Control aspects. In addition, he focusses on improving the cooperation between various water authorities in operational water management in the Netherlands as wells as in a cross-border context between German and Dutch authorities. In the last 5-10 years, his role in projects has become more that of a team leader than just being a specialist. From 2013 to 2015, he was the team-leader of the Hermes project for the Bonneville Power Administration (USA), a project that results into an operational modeling framework for reservoir operators. He was also the project manager of the project to build a new Flood Forecasting and Warning System for the riparian countries in the Sava River Basin, in South Eastern Europe. This system enables the five countries involved to take the right management decisions and implement operational measures to prevent and mitigate severe flood and drought situations on the basis of accurate forecasts of flows and discharges with a long lead time. He led the consortium which combined the best international expertise in flood and drought forecasting and early warning with strong local expertise and good working relationships with national and regional authorities. The system is officially in operation since October 2018, where it had been tested already for more than a year. The system focusses on being much more than an expert tool only: it facilitates the international cooperation between the 10 forecasting organizations.
In the Netherlands, he is the responsible for the development of the operational decision support systems to operate the sluices at Volkerak-Zoommeer en Kanaal Gent-Terneuzen to reduce the salt intrusion. And at some times, he will be flew in at any flood situation to assist operational water managers with his expertise.
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Working experience
| 2013 - Present | Deltares | Specialist operational water management. |
| 2008 - 2012 | Deltares | Senior operational water management engineer. |
| 2006 - 2008 | Delft Hydraulics | Senior water resources engineer. |
| 1996 - 2005 | Delft Hydraulics | Water resources engineer. |
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Projectleader and hydrological expert on evaluation study of flash flood in the Gulp river, resulting into flood in Slenaken, the Netherlands at July 26th 2012, Waterboard Roer en Overmaas.
The Netherlands, 2012
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On-site specialist during the January 2012 flood in Groningen, waterboard Noorderzijlvest.
The Netherlands, 2012
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Extension of FEWS Noorderzijlvest with RTC module for operational advice on use of pumping stations and spilling structures, FC2015 project.
The Netherlands, 2011 - 2012
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Specialist in project to create a radar composite rainfall image by using German and Belgium radars, waterboard Noorderzijlvest.
The Netherlands, 2011 - 2012
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Projectleader and Specialist on building a FEWS for the crossing border Vecht river, a project with many stakeholders from Germany and the Netherlands.
The Netherlands, 2011
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Specialist in 3Di project, focus on operational use of 3Di in forecasting systems.
The Netherlands
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Projectleader and RTC expert on fresh water supply and distribution on the Tholen island, waterboard Scheldestromen.
The Netherlands, 2011
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Projectleader and RTC expert in innovation project for waterboard Hollandse Delta to enable operational RTC systems in the sewer systems of 5 municipalities of the Hoeksche Waard, together with Delft University of Technology.
The Netherlands, 2009 - 2012
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Various hydraulic, real-time control and water quality analyses models in investigation to a defosfating system for Vinkeveen Lakes.
The Netherlands, 2006 - 2007
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United Kingdom: development of flood forecasting system for Anglian region, Environment Agency. Indonesia: Two training course of 1D and 2D flood modelling for 27 hydraulic engineers out of 12 provinces.
UK, 2005 - 2006
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Water Resources Agency. Training of Taiwanese counterparts in SOBEK 1D and 2D modelling system. Special emphasis on urban flood modelling and flood forecasting.
Taiwan, 2001 - 2005
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Design of Operational Management of El-Salam Canal, supervision of design.
Egypt, 2000
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How Delft-FEWS incorporates real-time sensor data with dynamic modeling to allow Real Time Control of sewer systems
2012
Erik de Rooij, Klaas-Jan van Heeringen, Conference paper Sensing a Changing World 2012.
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Implementation of central control for multiple sewer systems
2012
Nooijen, R. R. P. van, Kolechkina, A.G., Heeringen K-J. van, Velzen, E van; 12th International Conference on Urban drainage, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2011; pp. 10-15
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Leveraging existing infrastructure for central automatic control of multiple sewer systems
2012
Heeringen, K.J. van; Loenen, A. J. van; Nooyen, R. van; Velsen, E. van; 10th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, Hamburg, Germany, 2012.
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Operational Flood Forecasting and Flood Risk Management in Groningen
2011
K.J. van Heeringen, J.Gooijer; Proceedings of 25th ICID symposium, May 2011 in Groningen.
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Optimisation of the Dordrecht drainage system
2005
H. van Luijtelaar, M. Ruisch, T. Dalstra, K.J. van Heeringen, Dutch water magazine H2O 2005 nr. 19.
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Model Evaluation Tool experiences for the Amstel River Basin
2005
Icke, J.; Heeringen, K.J. van; Groot, S.; Ouboter, M., Large Rivers, special issue, paper submitted and accepted, 2005.
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Real-time control of water quantity and quality in a re-use of drainage water project (Egypt)
2002
P.J. van Overloop, A. Mursi Batt, K.J. van Heeringen, R.A.H.A. Thabet, R. Brouwer; Proceedings of 7th ICID symposium, April 2002 in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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Dutch Approach to High Speed Urban Drainage Modelling with SOBEK
2002
Klaas-Jan van Heeringen, Edward Melger en Adri Verwey; Conference Paper for 9th International Conference on Urban Storm Drainage (9ICUD), September 2002 in Portland, Oregon, USA.
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Real-time Control of Water Quantity and Quality in a Re-Use of drainage water project
2001
Overloop, P.J. van, Musri-Batt, A., Heeringen, K.J. van, Thabet, R.A.H.A, Proceedings International ICID Conference, Seoul, South Koreca, 2001.
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Integral sewer master plan for Eindhoven 2000-2010
2000
Wytze Schuurmans, Klaas-Jan van Heeringen, Frank van Swol; HydroInformatics Conference Paper, 2000.
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Integrated modelling of hydrodynamics and waste loads from point, diffuse and scattered sources
1999
Erik F.W. Ruijgh, Klaas-Jan van Heeringen en Geert Prinsen.
Activities
| Present | Member | Dutch Hydrological Society (NHV). |
| Present | Initiator | Control NEXT platform (www.controlnext.org). |
| 2000 - Present | Guest lecturer | Delft University of Technology. |