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Application of tools
Name of the case study
Maurice Audin Storm Water Detention Basin
Name of tool
Meetings and inquiries
Description of tool - character
Governance. Meetings and inquiries were organised with inhabitants of the neighbouring residences, associations of property owners. Before all these procedures, the population has petitioned the department to complain about the dangerous state of the basin. This action has been supported by the Major of the city.
Description of tool - availability
Available
Description of tool - existing
-
Description of tool - adaptation
-
Name of tool
Partnership
Description of tool - character
A partnership between the Department and the Municipality was set up at the beginning of the project. Thus, an agreement indicates each one?s maintenance role: the Department is the owner of the site and is responsible for the hydraulic use of the basin (in charge of cleaning after flooding), and the Municipality is responsible for the use of the public space (maintenance, health and safety, as if it were a public park). They both have to present an annual balance sheet:
a. For the Department: number of flooding, number of site cleaning…,
b. For the Municipality: number of interventions after damages or for urban furniture replacing…
Commitments enable to manage all that is not mentioned in the agreement:
• The Department has set up an overflow prediction system: besides the regulatory and educative signing, and sirens, remote monitoring allow users to evacuate in case of flooding,
• The Municipality has to manage the place as a public park, with schedule, regulations; also activities are proposed by monitors during open hours.
Description of tool - availability
Available
Description of tool - existing
-
Description of tool - adaptation
-
Name of tool
Real time control system
Description of tool - character
Simulation tool.
Description of tool - availability
Available
Description of tool - existing
For the users´ security, sensors enabling to measure the water level were placed in the covered part of the basin, with a real time control system to regulate the outlet flow rate. It is a case-specific tool, developed as part of the project.
Description of tool - adaptation
Also important signing has been designed to remind that this area has a double function- leisure and sewage. The signing is both to respect the law- regulatory signing- and to explain public the functioning of the flooding zone- educative signing. The regulatory signing comprises interdiction signs, indications of potential flooding zone, sound and visual signs to alert public of imminent overflows (sirens). The educative signing comprises ground markings and explanatory boards.
Name of tool
Consultation
Description of tool - character
Consultation of: the police, the gymnasium keeper, municipal services (youth and sports service, development service), and the DEA maintenance service (DEA = Direction de l´Eau et de l´Assainissement = direction of water and sewage).This is a governance tool.
Description of tool - availability
Available
Description of tool - existing
-
Description of tool - adaptation
-
What tools were used to assess sustainability?
Meetings and inquiries
Partnership
Real time control system
Consultation
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