Flood protection program Zulawy, Gdansk – Poland
Zulawy is a region which is located in the delta of Vistula River in north Poland. The area of Zulawy is about 175 000 ha, almost 26% of which is situated below sea level. Because of that, Zulawy has an impressive infrastructure – kilometers of channels, hundreds of small dams, and pumping stations.
In 2010 Polish authorities decided to start the “Complex flood protection program – Zulawy 2030”. The first part of this project should be completed by the end of 2015, with a budget of about 45,000,000 EUR. The program has 5 main beneficiaries: RZGW Gdansk, ZMiUW Gdansk, ZZMiUW Elblag, City of Gdansk and City of Elblag.
Technology Used:
- OTT LogoSens2
- OTT CBS - Compact Bubbler Sensor
- OTT Pluvio2
- Other meteorological sensors
Read a detailed project description here
OTT CBS - Compact Bubbler Sensor
Non-contact, bubbler sensor for longterm surface water level monitoring
The OTT CBS is a compact, accurate, and low power bubbler sensor for surface or groundwater level monitoring.
- Surface water Groundwater
- Bubbler-in
- Drift-free water level measurement - no pressure sensor or electronics in the water
- 0 to 15 m or 0 to 30 m
- ± 3 mm (high accuracy version); ± 5 mm (standard and 30 meter versions)
- No
- SDI-12, RS-485 (using SDI-12), or 4 ...20 mA
OTT Pluvio² - Weighing Rain Gauge
All-weather, high accuracy rain gauge for continuous data collection
The OTT Pluvio² is an all-weather precipitation gauge that uses superior weight-based technology to measure the amount and intensity of rain, snow, and hail.
- Cumulative precipitation, precipitation intensity, bucket content in real time and non real time
- Weighing principle
- All-weather precipitation gauge without moving parts according to WMO guide line No. 8
- SDI-12 / RS-485, pulse
The main tasks for whole program are:
- Modernization of 400 km of river banks
- Construction (or reconstruction) of about 60 pumping stations
- Modernization of about 260 km rivers and streams
- Reconstruction of about 600 km of melioration channels
- Set up a measuring system and an operations center with access to hydrological and meteorological data from the whole Zulawy region
The pilot station is supposed to transfer hydrological and meteorological data to a data centre in hourly intervals. For internal reporting purposes the pumping status (on/off, operating time) should be provided das well. The collected data should be visualized on an internet based platform.
The solution consists of:
- OTT LogoSens as heart of the station
- 2 x CBS for water level measurement on both sides of a dam
- OTT Pluvio2 for reliable precipitation data
- Thies WS WD wind sensors
- Vaisala HMP45d as transmitter for temperature and humidity
- Relays inputs to log the status of 3 pumps
- Solar power supply
- GPRS data transmission
- Availability of real-time measurements in the Hydras 3 software
- Dedicated www application
- Steel cabinet with OTT LogoSens2, OTT CBS, OTT Solar and modem