Integrated hydrological model-based assessment of stormwater management scenarios in Copenhagen's first climate resilient neighbourhood using the three point approach

Sara Maria Lerer, Francesco Righetti, Thomas Rozario, Peter Steen Mikkelsen

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    Abstract

    The city of Copenhagen currently pursues a very ambitious plan to make the city 'cloudburst proof' within the next 30 years. The cloudburst management plan has the potential to support the city's aim to become more green, liveable, and sustainable. In this study, we assessed stormwater system designs using the Three Point Approach (3PA) as a framework, where an indicator value for each domain was calculated using state-of-the-art modelling techniques. We demonstrated the methodology on scenarios representing sequential enhancements of the cloudburst management plan for a district that has been appointed to become the first climate resilient neighbourhood in Copenhagen. The results show that if the cloudburst system is exploited to discharge runoff from selected areas that are disconnected from the combined sewer system, then the plan leads to multiple benefits. These include improved flood protection under a 100-years storm (i.e., compliance with the new demands in domain C of the 3PA), reduced surcharge to terrain under a 10-years storm (i.e., compliance with the service goal in domain B of the 3PA) and an improved yearly water balance (i.e., better performance in domain A of the 3PA).
    Original languageEnglish
    Article number883
    JournalWater
    Volume9
    Issue number11
    Number of pages12
    ISSN2073-4441
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2017

    Keywords

    • Flood Control
    • Meteorology
    • Precipitation
    • Sewage and Industrial Wastes Treatment
    • Sewage
    • Oil Field Production Operations
    • Hydraulics
    • Applied Mathematics
    • Climate adaptation
    • Cloudburst
    • Combined sewer
    • Flooding
    • Hydraulic modelling
    • Three Point Approach (3PA)
    • Urban drainage
    • Combined sewers
    • Flood control
    • Floods
    • Hydraulic models
    • Oil well flooding
    • Sewers
    • Storms
    • Combined sewer systems
    • Integrated hydrological modeling
    • Modelling techniques
    • Point approach
    • Storm-water managements
    • Climate models

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