Directive 2007/60/EC [1] sets the framework of actions aimed at restricting the negative consequences connected with floods within the European Union. The implementation of the Directive in the Polish legal system was regulated by the amended "Water Law" Act of 5 January 2011 [2], which required member states to construct flood hazard maps and flood risk maps showing the potential adverse consequences associated with different flood scenarios by December 2013. Some of the first EU projects testing the methodology of developing such maps were the LABEL [3] and Flood Wise projects [4]. The methodology for compiling such maps in Poland was specified by a regulation [5]. Flood hazard maps contain information Pol. J. Environ. Stud. Vol. 25, No. 4 (2016), 1403-1413
AbstractThe procedure of the rainfall-runoff (R-R) model, based on the instantaneous unit hydrograph (IUH) method and used to calculate the probable flows in 8 profiles of the Losse river (on the stretch from 5+476 to 7+596 km) for three flood scenarios (Qextreme, Q1% and Q10%), has been presented in this work. A computer program developed by the author was used to conduct the analyses, enabling the flows to be simultaneously calculated for each of the analyzed profiles in response to 10 rainfall events of varying duration and a given exceedance probability.The obtained values of probable flows were recalculated into corresponding water table levels using the WSP-ASS program (Water Level Program). The extent of the flooding and water depths for three flood scenarios were calculated based on the levels of the water table and terrain elevation data ("Digital Terrain Model"). As a final effect of the analyses, flood hazard maps for the analyzed stretch of the Losse River were constructed, enabling the consequences of flooding to business activities, the infrastructure, the environment, and human health and life to be assessed.