Translations:Betriebsregeltypen/16/en

• Dependency:

The definition of a flood protection area as a minimum requirement only includes the designation of a volume, which has to be kept free for potential floodwater. The dimensioning is based on flood events with certain recurrence intervals. If the water level exceeds the mark of the protection area, an increased discharge to the downstream water of the reservoir ensures that the area is kept empty. Thus, this rule is reduced to a relation between discharge and storage volume, where the outlet capacity or a defined maximum discharge can serve as an upper limit for keeping the flood protection area empty. If the flood protection area is variable in time over the year, only the discharge of the respective storage volume is increased.