Rémy Tourment

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Levees: an important and visible issue in next ICOLD 2025 congress in Chengdu (China)

Last week during the ICOLD General Assembly in Gothenburg, the questions for the next ICOLD Congress in 2025 in Chengdu (China) were voted. You can see the wording of the four questions, including sub-questions in the following pictures; levees have a large place and great visibility. This is a great success for ICOLD TC LE and …

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An original solution for emergency repair of a breach in a levee. What do you think of it?

Sometimes original solutions are tried to repair a levee in an emergency situation or a breach. Here’s such an example https://www.thedrive.com/news/california-farmers-plunged-their-pickups-into-a-broken-levee-to-stop-a-flood-it-worked Now this raises many comments and questions. I’d like to see yours, please reply to this post.  

Levees in ICOLD and highlights of Levees in the Marseille ICOLD Congress

Disclaimer : this is a personal feedback on the ICOLD Congress in Marseille, obviously in regards to levees (by Rémy Tourment, Chairman of the ICOLD TC LE on Levees) First of all, check the ICOLD newsletter (issue #20) that you can download here : https://www.icold-cigb.org/GB/news/newsletters.asp where you can see that levees are taking a rightful place in ICOLD …

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Working Group Webinar on temporary / mobile / demountable flood defences

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 …

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Short Course on the risk analysis of levee systems

Short courses will be given on the side-lines of the ICOLD Congress in Marseille. One of these course will present the international approach to risk analysis of levee systems described in chapter 5 of the International Levee Handbook and its French version through “Études de dangers” (Hazard studies). Illustrated by several examples, it will address …

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Failure paths for levees – A report from ISSMGE TC on Levees

Levee breaches are often the result of a combination of mechanisms, which may happen simultaneously, and/or successively. These interactions are complex and difficult to anticipate in design and assessment as well as during a forensic analysis of an actual breach. The ISSMGE TC201 has published a report on the failure paths (that can also be called failure …

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ICOLD 2022 Congress

The final bulletin for the Marseille 2022 ICOLD congress can be downloaded : in English : https://cigb-icold2022.fr/en/generalinfo/bulletin2/ or in French : https://cigb-icold2022.fr/fr/generalinfo/bulletin2/ There are also many more information on the web site https://cigb-icold2022.fr/en/# 

Seminar on protections against overtopping erosion

Abstract Submission Deadline to the 4th international seminar was extended. For those interested, you can still send abstracts by December 20th, 2021 to damprotections.caminos@upm.es. You can also consult updated information about key dates and templates at www.protections2022.com.

A webinar based on the ILH on the role of levees in flood risk management

CIRIA is organising a webinar about the role of levees on flood risk management, based on the International Levee handbook. All details can be found on the event web page. Please disseminate the information in your contacts.

ICOLD annual meeting for 2021

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). …

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Spillways on River Levees

The English translation of a previous French handbook about spillways on river levees is now ready. It can already be pre-ordered as a physical book, and it will be available as an open access ebook from October 1st. More information on : https://www.quae.com/produit/1720/9782759232857/spillways-on-river-levees See also the flyer. 02812_SpillwaysHD 

FLOODrisk conference papers available online

The repository for the FLOODrisk conference papers is now open. You can find read and download all the conference papers in it. https://repozitorium.omikk.bme.hu/handle/10890/15138 There are different ways to brwose the papers, by author, title or subject. The main web site for the conference is sill open, and the program by sessions (https://hub.floodrisk2020.net/programme/) may help you …

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A new document on “Methods and techniques for reinforcing and repairing protection levees”

A new report has been approved by the CFBR Executive Board, and is published on the French  committee’s website, “Documentation” tab: Methods and techniques for reinforcing and repairing protection levees This is the deliverable of the CFBR “Levees” Working Group. It is made up of two parts: – a first, “General framework”: https://www.barrages-cfbr.eu/IMG/pdf/recueil_confortement_digues_partie_1.pdf – a …

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Webinar on Animal Burrowing – feedback

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 …

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FLOODrisk online conference 22-24 June 2021

The FLOODrisk conference starts tomorrow. A very attractive program including plenary sessions, parallel sessions ans special sessions has been prepared; see it here : https://hub.floodrisk2020.net/programme/ Join us and let’s share knowledge and experiences!

A WG webinar on animal activity on levees

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 …

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Special session in the FLOODrisk conference on risk based decision making for levees

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 …

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Grass roots

Very interesting post in Linkedin about grass roots, which shows we still have a lt to learn on this topic :  link

FLOODrisk conference

The FLOODrisk international conference on Food Risk management, postponed from 2020, is now scheduled from 21st to 25th June 2021 online. You can find all details here: https://floodrisk2020.net/news/floodrisk2020-virtual-conference-information/  Registration is open.

EGU virtual conference – Submissions deadline January 20th.

I received from a colleague  this information that I wanted to share with you: DO NOT FORGET THAT… Is that time of the year were we get crazy and excited about submitting abstracts for EGU ! Deadline for abstract submission is extended to the 20th of January 2021, 13:00 CET. This 2021 promises an even …

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Presentation of the French version of the ILH

The French association of levee managers France Digues organises a presentation of the French edition of the International Levee Handbook. Because of the COVID19 situation, this event, which was supposed to happen in Paris as a physical meeting, will beheld online so more people will potentially be able to attend. More details here : Programme …

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I.S. Rivers conference

The 4th International Conference  IS. Rivers will take place from June 21 to 25, 2021. I.S.Rivers is an international conference focused on research and action in the service of large rivers in Europe and the world, a meeting between scientists and practitioners. The French National Dams Committee CFBR is a partner of this event. More …

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Building a resilient flood protection system, including to overtopping. Summer 2019: creating openings in an existing railway

History of the project On the left bank of the south of the Rhône river (in France), between the cities of Tarascon and Arles, a railway embankment has performed for many years as a flood protection structure although it was not a role falling under its owner (the French National Railway company) responsibility. In December 2003, …

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Fusion of information from geophysical and geotechnical investigations for levee assessment

The identification of levees constitutive materials, as well as the detection of possible interfaces and anomalies, are crucial for site characterization. During investigation campaigns, complementary geophysical and geotechnical methods are usually used. These two sets of methods yield data with very different spatial scales and different levels of incompleteness, uncertainty and inaccuracy. On the one …

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ICOLD Meeting 2020 New Delhi

UPDATE (4 March) : the meeting has been postponed due to the Coronavirus epidemic. The new dates are: Sat. 26 Sept. – Th. 01 Oct. 2020. The dates for the WG workshop and meeting are on Sunday 27th and Monday 28th respectively. The 2020 ICOLD meeting will be in New Delhi, India, from 4 to 10 …

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ECMSGE 2019

The XVIIth ECSMGE conference, held in Reykjavik  with the theme “Geotechnical Engineering, ​foundation of the future” on September 1-6, had a lot of content related to levees and also to dams. ​ISSMGE TC201 on “Geotechnical aspects of Dykes and Levees” has some members in common with ICOLD LE TC and EUCOLD LFD WG.  We will in the …

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FLOODrisk2020 : last week to submit an abstract

FLOODrisk 2020 Attention – 1 week left to end of abstract submission We would like to remind you all that the call for abstracts for the 4th European Conference on Flood Risk Management, that will take place in Budapest will close on 16th September 2019. FLOODrisk2020 is committed to attract, coach and listen to the …

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New issue of our LFD WG newsletter

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 …

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EUCOLD 2019 Symposium

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.

FLOODrisk2020

  The deadline for submitting abstracts to the next FLOODrisk conference has been extended to the 16th September : https://floodrisk2020.net/news/abstract-submission-deadline-extension/ Levees and Flood Defences are definitely a topic and I encourage every EUCOLD LFD WG and/or ICOLD LE TC to submit an abstract.

Newsletter issue 03 (April 2019)

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.

Digues 2019 conference : success and deliverables

The third French Conference on Levees (“Digues 2019”) was held in Aix en Provence on 20-21 March 2019 with technical visits on the Rhône levees on the 22. It was a success with 100 abstracts submission, 300 participants, 77 final papers, 50 oral presentations and 26 posters. The book of abstracts is available, with English …

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