Consultancy Services to Support Danube River Basin Directorate-Pleven for the Development of Preliminary Flood Risk Assessment

Duration: 09.2011 – 01.2012

Remote Sensing Application Center – RESAC is the contractor of Contract No 1/2011 from 16.09.2011 “Consultancy services to support Danube River Basin Directorate-Pleven for the Development of Preliminary Flood Risk Assessment‘, according to the requirements of directive 2007/60/EC of the European parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2007 on the assessment and management of flood risks.

The subject of contract include tasks within Danube Region related to: significant past floods assessment; potential future floods assessment, including assessment of the factors, affecting their occurrence; and determining indicative areas of potential significant flood risk pursuant to Art. 146d of the Water Act. The establishment of criteria for significance of past, future floods as well as a proposal for such ones for indicative areas of significant flood risk are included in these tasks.

Main activities:

• Preparation for the Directorate specialized GIS database (in compliance with Directive INSPIRE) which will serve in future tasks of the Directorate under Directive 2007/60/EC regarding the flood risk assessment and flood risk management
• Preparation of flood hazard maps and flood risk maps (more than 150 maps) for region of Danube River Basin Directorate-Pleven DRBD