Pilot description

Area description

Denderleeuw lies in the Belgian province East Flanders.

The size of the pilot area is 13,77 km². The majority of the area is residential, or urbanized within a rural area, but there are also industrial- and retail areas, farmlands, railways and roads.

Number of inhabitants: total of 20,086 inhabitants

Type of area (rural or urban): a lot of residential area or urbanised zones within rural area,

Relevant characteristics of the water system (main water bodies): the area lies 8 to 40 m above sea level and the main water body is the Dender river (Vlaams Milieumaatschappij, 2016).

Figure 1: Map featuring the location of the FRAMES Belgian pilot areas, one of which is Denderleeuw.

Referenties

• Evaluatie inventarisatie overstromingen november 2010 Denderbekken. Integraal Waterbeleid. Bekken van de Dender. Hoofdstuk 2.3. Bekkenvoortgangsrapport 2010. Denderbekken, Anoniem, Commissie Integraal Waterbeleid, 1 januari 2011.
• Flood resilience: a co-evolutionary approach : residents, spatial developments and flood risk management in the Dender Basin, Tempels, B., 5 december 2016.
• Stroomgebiedbeheerplan voor de Schelde 2016-2021. Bekkenspecifiek deel Denderbekken, Vlaamse Milieumaatschappij, 1 januari 2016.