Internet documentary on the river Meuse

2013 ◽  
pp. 105-105
Author(s):  
W Overmars
Keyword(s):  
River Meuse

Storage reservoirs – a first barrier for pathogenic micro-organisms in the Netherlands

1998 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lambert W. C. A. van Breemen ◽  
Henk A. M. Ketelaars ◽  
Wim Hoogenboezem ◽  
Gertjan Medema
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Agricultural Waste ◽  
Quality Criteria ◽  
River Rhine ◽  
Total Production ◽  
River Meuse ◽  
Storage Reservoirs ◽  
Microbiological Water Quality ◽  
Micro Organisms

Production of drinking water from river water, abstracted either directly from river or from storage reservoirs, requires the application of barriers for pathogenic micro-organisms. About one third of the total production of drinking water in the Netherlands is derived from surface water, mainly the River Meuse and branches of the River Rhine. The results of extensive monitoring programmes show that the microbiological water quality of the River Rhine and River Meuse is strongly influenced by domestic and agricultural waste water discharges, with respect to the River Meuse mainly in the Liège-region in Belgium. Densities of Cryptosporidium and Giardia in both rivers are comparable; the highest density was found in the Belgian Meuse basin. Elimination rates of 1.7- to 3.1 10log-units for pathogenic micro-organisms were found in Dutch storage reservoirs, which can thus be considered as an important first barrier for pathogenic microorganisms. The elimination capacity of reservoirs is influenced by retention time and contamination by waterfowl. To meet the proposed quality criteria for pathogens in drinking water, however, additional barriers are required.

scholarly journals Impacts of climate change on future flood damage on the river Meuse, with a distributed uncertainty analysis

2015 ◽  
Vol 77 (3) ◽  
pp. 1533-1549 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Detrembleur ◽  
F. Stilmant ◽  
B. Dewals ◽  
S. Erpicum ◽  
P. Archambeau ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Uncertainty Analysis ◽  
Flood Damage ◽  
River Meuse ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Forest Succession Endangers the Special Ant Fauna of Abandoned Quarries along the River Meuse (Wallonia, Belgium)

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 681-690 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wouter Dekoninck ◽  
Frederik Hendrickx ◽  
Michel Dethier ◽  
Jean-Pierre Maelfait
Keyword(s):  
Forest Succession ◽  
River Meuse

Spawning migrations, sexual maturity and sex steroid levels in female roach Rutilus rutilus from the River Meuse

1999 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-121
Author(s):  
Patrick Kestemont ◽  
Jacques Rinchard ◽  
Valérie Feys ◽  
Alexis Fostier
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Maturity ◽  
Rutilus Rutilus ◽  
Sex Steroid ◽  
Roach Rutilus Rutilus ◽  
River Meuse

Native and exotic Amphipoda and other Peracarida in the River Meuse: new assemblages emerge from a fast changing fauna

2005 ◽  
pp. 203-220
Author(s):  
Guy Josens ◽  
Abraham de Bij Vaate ◽  
Philippe Usseglio-Polatera ◽  
Roger Cammaerts ◽  
Frédéric Chérot ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
River Meuse

Integrated Flood Risk Analysis for Assessing Flood Protection Strategies

2010 ◽  
pp. 244-263
Author(s):  
J. Ernst ◽  
B.J. Dewals ◽  
S. Detrembleur ◽  
P. Archambeau ◽  
S. Erpicum ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Analysis ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Flood Management ◽  
Flood Protection ◽  
River Meuse ◽  
Flood Risk Analysis ◽  
Protection Strategies ◽  
The Cost

The present chapter describes an end-to-end methodology for assessing flood protection strategies, including the whole methodological process from hydrological statistics to detailed 2D hydraulic modelling, damage calculation and flood risk evaluation. This risk-based approach serves as a component of a decision-support system (DSS) developed in Belgium for identifying cost-effective flood management strategies in the context of climate change. The DSS accounts for both hydraulic and socio-economic parameters to quantify the benefits (in terms of avoided risk) and the cost of each strategy. Besides reviewing fundamentals of flood risk assessment, including the inundation model and main concepts related to flood risk, a consistent methodology for micro-scale flood risk analysis is presented in detail, combining complementary sources of GIS information such as high resolution and high accuracy land use database as well as socio-economic datasets. Finally a case study on a main tributary of river Meuse in Belgium is described.

Non-steady state behaviour of heavy metals in contaminated freshwater sediments

1998 ◽  
Vol 37 (6-7) ◽  
pp. 39-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerard A. van den Berg ◽  
J. P. Gustav Loch ◽  
John J. G. Zwolsman ◽  
Lambertus M. van der Heijdt
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Heavy Metal ◽  
Steady State ◽  
Surface Water ◽  
Metal Mobility ◽  
Pore Waters ◽  
Concentration Gradients ◽  
River Meuse ◽  
State Behaviour ◽  
Diffusive Fluxes

The behaviour of heavy metals has been investigated in contaminated sediments of the river Meuse, The Netherlands. Due to temporal changes in temperature and degradability of organic matter, the depths of the redox boundaries fluctuate. This contributes to a non-steady state. As a result of oxidation processes, a distinct peak in heavy metal concentrations in pore water is measured at the sediment-water interface. Because the studied anoxic sediments contain low levels of sulphide, other solid phases are expected to be of importance in the binding of heavy metals. Furthermore, heterogeneity of the sediment and complexation with dissolved organic compounds may result in supersaturation of the anoxic pore waters with respect to discrete heavy metal sulphides, thus influencing heavy metal mobility. Calculations using concentration gradients of heavy metals indicate that diffusive fluxes between the sediment and the surface water contribute to concentrations in the surface water, although significant effects may be confined to specific locations.

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