Combating subsidence for a resilient New Orleans

Urban resilience

New Orleans has an effective storm drainage system to pump away water following a heavy rainstorm. However, the pumps also operate when it is dry: besides rainwater, they also (unintentionally) lower the groundwater level, causing…

Roadmap for early warning and disaster risk management in Afghanistan

Flood Risk Strategies

  Afghanistan is highly prone to intense and recurring natural hazards such as flooding, earthquakes, snow avalanches, landslides, and droughts due to its geographical location and years of environmental degradation. These occur in addition to…

Passive sampling for the effective monitoring of pollutants in water

Human health needs knowledge about water and the subsurface

As a result of human activities, chemical substances such as pesticides and traces of medicines enter the surface water through sewage water and groundwater. High concentrations of these substances may be a risk for people and the…

Adaptive circular cities

Resilient Cities

Major urban challenges demand integral solutions In 2015, under the management of Deltares, the leading Dutch research institutes Deltares, TNO, DLO and ECN combined forces in the Adaptive Circular Cities project. The objective was to…

Navigation Safety in Port Loko River in Sierra Leone

The Port Loko area in Sierra Leone is important for barge transport of iron ore. Figure 1 shows a critical inland reach at Porto Loko River for transport of iron ore from Thofayim river terminal…

Navigability of Port Brazaville in Congo River

Delft3D Flexible Mesh Suite

The Congo River is the second largest river in the world with an average discharge of 44,000 m3/s. It forms the border between Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Deltares recently studied the hydraulic and…

Effects of Alternate Harbour Entrance for Haaften

Delft3D Flexible Mesh Suite

Due to increased traffic on the River Waal (The Netherlands) the local state authority has developed a policy to provide intermediate harbours along the Waal for overnight stay of the ships while on route to…

Impact of bow thrusters and propeller jets on bed protections

Ports and waterways

In a cooperative project with the Port of Rotterdam, the Port of Antwerp, Holcim and the Dutch Ministry of Public works (Rijkswaterstaat), Deltares performed physical scale model tests to determine the impact of bow thrusters…

Translating offshore wave information for Porto Central

Ports and waterways

Porto Central is a greenfield port in Brazil that is presently being developed by a joint venture of Terminal Presidente Kennedy (TPK, Brazil) and the Port of Rotterdam (PoR, The Netherlands). The project is part…

Ports of the Future

Ports and waterways

The growing number of port development projects recognises the need to shift economies and social structures towards more sustainable models. The development of a new or extended port layout requires adequate attention to a number of aspects…