Woody plants on dikes and levees - phase II
Abstract
Recent floods have once again drawn attention to the stability and maintenance of levees. Specifically, the focus is on the relationship between vegetation and the structural integrity of levees. Current standards regard dense turf to be the safest vegetation cover and many guidelines ban woody vegetation from levees. Many assumptions are based on experience involving problematic and maladjusted woody vegetation (e.g. single trees, groups of trees) and case reports rather than scientific studies. Standards are justified by an absence of data which would clearly establish the relationship between woody vegetation and the structural impairment of dikes. Hence, the effects of small to medium growing, flexible woody plants on structural integrity and maintenance on levees are investigated in a project, funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology, the Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management and the Provincial Government of Lower Austria.
Soil bioengineering Flood protection Flood protection levees woody plants
Publikationen
Gehölzstrukturen an Hochwasserschutzdämmen - Erfahrungen aus der Versuchsanlage Deutsch-Wagram
Autoren: Lammeranner W., Obriejetan M. Jahr: 2010
Journal articles
Project staff
Florin Florineth
Em.O.Univ.Prof. Dr.phil. Florin Florineth
florin.florineth@boku.ac.at
Project Leader
01.07.2009 - 31.12.2010
Johann Peter Rauch
Assoc. Prof. Priv.-Doz. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Johann Peter Rauch
hp.rauch@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-87404
Sub Projectleader
01.07.2009 - 31.12.2010
Walter Lammeranner
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Walter Lammeranner
walter.lammeranner@boku.ac.at
Project Staff
01.07.2009 - 31.12.2010