May 05
The EUCOLD Working Group on Levees and Flood Defences will organise this year two webinars, after the success of the previous one in 2021 on animal activity on levees. The first one will be held on October 6th, from 11:00 to 13:00 CET, on the topic of temporary, mobile, demountable barriers (or defense structures). You …
Oct 11
The program for the annual ICOLD meeting (15-19 Nov. 2021) is available, you can find it here : ICOLD 2021 program You also can find more information and registration information on the dedicated web site : https://www.icold2021.org/en/ The ICOLD TC on Levees will hold a workshop on Novembre 18th from 12:00 to 13:30 (Paris time). …
Jul 13
It was good to see so many at the workshop 30 June (67 people in total). Some presentations are already on the website (see https://lfd-eurcold.inrae.fr/index.php/wg-webinar-1/), the others will follow as soon as possible. The speakers were excellent and we are very grateful to them. Hopefully we will be able to have another event later this …
Jun 21
The webinar on Animal Burrowing will take place on June 30. 11:00 CET Welcome 11:05 1. English perspective on managing badgers in embankments (Paul Arnold, EA) 11:20 2. Detection of cavities in levees and forelands caused by beavers (Torsten Heyer, TU Dresden; Michael Arndt, Secon Systems) 11:40 3. Experiences with the beaver …
May 28
We are very pleased to announce the first webinar of the Working Group on Levees and Flood Defences of the European Club of ICOLD, about animal activity on our levees, which will be held June 30th from 11:00 to 12:30 CET. Please email Patrik if you want to attend. He will send you an appointment …
May 07
During the FLOODrisk 2020 conference (happening in June 2021) , a special session ‘Risk Informed Decision Making for Levees and Flood Defences’ will take place virtually on Tuesday 22 June 2021 from 13:30 to 15:00. This special session is organised by EUCOLD LFD WG and ICOLD TC members. Special Session: Risk Informed Decision Making for …
Aug 30
Hello we have issued a new issue of our Levees and Flood Defences Working Group newsletter. You can find it available for download on our website. It concentrates on the different levees related conferences of this year: the ICOLD annual meeting, the ECSMGE conference, and the EUCOLD symposium. It also includes a special feature presenting …
Aug 19
We encourage all our members to attend the EUCOLD Symposium on October 2-4 (https://www.eurcold2019.com) and particularly the two days organized by our WG (https://www.eurcold2019.com/eucold-wg-lfd) on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 Please also disseminate this information among your contacts interested in levees and flood defences.
Jun 21
We are looking for articles relating to the engineering, operation, maintenance of Levees… and anything else Levee related that you think will be of interest, for the 4th edition of the Levee Working Group Newsletter. Article length should be around 500 words or less, and include a photo, map or diagram. The Newsletter will be …
Apr 29
Issue 3 of the Newsletter has recently been published. The EUCOLD Levee Working Group Newsletter is now looking for article contributions for the 4th issue which will be published later in summer of 2019. We will be looking for articles relating to the engineering, operation, maintenance of Levees… and anything else Levee related that you …
Apr 17
A new issue of our LFD WG newsletter is available on the dedicated page of our web site : https://lfd-eurcold.inrae.fr/index.php/wg-newsletter/ Thanks to the editorial team, particularly Sam Leonard and Adrian Rushworth of the UK Environment Agency and also to to all contributors.
Feb 10
Last days to send an abstract for the 11th ICOLD European Club Symposium. Deadline is Monday 18th February 2019. All topics refer to all dams – large and small, reservoirs, levees and flood defenses. Important Dates Abstracts Submission (300 words max) Monday 18th February 2019 Abstracts Acceptance Friday 15th March 2019 Full Paper Submission (10 pages max) Monday …
Feb 10
Now it is 2019 it is time to think of the next group newsletter. A lot is happening in the world of Levees and it will be good to share what you have been doing. As a guide articles between a quarter and a whole page work well. Photographs and pictures are useful to bring …
Sep 22
A new issue of our newsletter is available here : https://lfd-eurcold.inrae.fr/index.php/wg-newsletter/ I want to thank all the editorial team and the contributors. I hope you will find reading it interesting. Don’t hesitate to disseminate it to all your contacts (inside and outside of ICOLD) who are interested in levees and flood defences. Please send us …
Jul 12
Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to inform you of the creation of a Technical Committee “Levees” within ICOLD. The General Assembly of ICOLD voted and approved this creation during its meeting last Friday (07/07) in Prague, at the 2017 annual meeting. This excellent news for the international Levees and Flood Defences community is the result …
Mar 20
Our Working Group will hold its meeting on Friday, July 7, during the ICOLD Meeting and in the same venue thanks to the help of the local organizing committee. Apologies to members not being able to attend the meting at this date. The formal meeting will be held during the morning (9:00-12:30), the afternoon (13:30-17:00) will be a …
Oct 24
The second Working Group meeting, in Irstea’s Lyon office on the 17 October 2016, has been quite a success. We had 29 attendants from 10 countries. In the morning we had 9 technical and scientific presentations. The formal WG meeting was held in the afternoon. Minutes will be disseminated in the next two weeks. Thanks …
Sep 20
A working group meeting will be held in Lyon, on Monday, October 17th, 2016, beginning the week of the FLOODrisk2016 international conference. A draft agenda is available and has been sent to the working group members, asking them to confirm their attendance. Non members wanting to participate need to get in touch with the …
Sep 07
The next ICOLD Congress (2018) will be held in Vienna (Austria). As you already know, a question regarding levees has been introduced in the program, and it is of utmost importance to demonstrate at this occasion to the whole dam community that levees is a natural topic linked to its activities. See: http://icoldaustria2018.com/ We strongly encourage our members to …
Sep 07
The next ICOLD Annual Meeting (2017) will be held in Prague (Czech Republic). Abstracts can be submitted up to September 15th. See: http://www.icold2017.cz/en/call-for-abstracts We strongly encourage our members to present an abstract in relation to levees and flood defences. Please let the group know if you submit such a paper, by sending an email to Marcel Bottema …
May 23
An important news for our levees and flood defenses woking group! Here is the message sent on Monday, May 23rd to the WG members : Dear Member of the EURCOLD Working Group on Levees and Flood Defences, during our start-up meeting last year, we mentioned the importance of having the topic of levees on …
May 03
Our WG meeting in 2016 will be held on October 17th in Lyon (France). More details soon. The next days, also in Lyon, will be the international FLOODrisk conference.
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