The objective of work package ‘Alleviation’ is to reduce flood risk through improved protection against floods.

Main actions

• Design and use of a new island, which was behind the dyke before
• Constructing streets to be used as rivers during floods: Streets as Streams / Roads as Rivers
• Design study of flood reservoir in the Woluwe Valley: new risk maps, cost-benefit analysis and rough design
• Developing and testing procedures and tools for the investigation of flood alleviation methods in urban areas
• Building organisational capacity for flood alleviation in urban areas

Expected impacts
The exchange on flood alleviation measures will demonstrate to the policy makers (local, regional and national) that all the 8 cities are implementing flood alleviation measures. The transnational cooperation will increase the acceptance between policy makers to invest more in flood alleviation measures and to include flood alleviation in spatial urban development plan processes.