RIONED Publications in English

(latest update: 26 February 2013)

Urban drainage and sewer system management in The Netherlands
 

• Urban Drainage Statistics (2009) offers statistics on characteristics, (environmental) measures, studies and schemes, costs and funding of the urban drainage system in the Netherlands.
• Climate change, heavier rainstorms and the urban drainage system shows what can expect of the drainage system and how it is being adapted to changing conditions. This vision paper of RIONED, the umbrella organisation for urban drainage in The Netherlands, communicates the concerns of the professionals to the public at large.
• Changes needed to deal with rainwater, a RIONED survey (2007) among 203 municipalities. A follow-up study will be carried out in 2013.

Sustainable urban drainage systems
 

• Lessons from Twelve Years Storm Water Infiltration in the Dutch Delta (paper for Essener Tagung 2008)
• Hydraulic life span of storm water infiltration systems (summary, 2007)
  This publication gives the causes and remedies for the loss of hydraulic capacity due to insufficient trapping of sediments, to clogging or blocking of geo-textiles as well as due to silting of the surrounding soil.
• Lessons of ten years suds in the Dutch delta (paper for 6th Novatech, Lyon - France, 2007)
• Swales: guidelines for design, construction, and maintenance (summary, 2006)
  Results of a six year monitoring programme in the Dutch municipality Enschede.
• IBOS-Regenwater: the Dutch Interactive Decision Support Tool for Sustainable Urban Water Management (paper for 10th ICUD 2005, Copenhagen - Danmark)
  

Benchmarking
 

• Dutch Urban drainage benchmarking: from a reflection of today’s status to a driving force for future development of the sector (paper at the IWA conference on Benchmarking on November 3, 2011, International Water Week, Amsterdam).
• Transparence and Improvement combined - The Development of the Benchmark Municipal Water Management (paper at the IWA conference "PI09: Benchmarking water services - the way forward" on March 12, 2009, Amsterdam).
• Letter to all Dutch municipalities (2009) about the methodology used in the 2010 and 2013 editions of the Benchmark municipal water management.

Modelling and monitoring
 

• Interactions within waste water systems (summary, 2004)
  This summary is based on a dissertation study at the Delft Technical University concerning the interaction between the sewer system and the waste water treatment plant.
• Modeling and monitoring sewerage systems (summary, 2003)
  This publication offers a manual for planning and operating a monitoring system to get insight in the hydraulic performance of sewer systems

Sewer operation and management
 

• SPIRIT: Interactive Prediction of Sewer Conditions Based on Expert-opinions, Classifications conform EN13508-2 and Geo-information (paper for the SOM’06, Vienna – Austria)
• SPIRIT: Towards an Interactive Tool for predicitve Asset Management (paper for the 10th ICUD 2005, Copenhagen, Danmark)
• Probabilistic assessment of combined sewer systems (summary, 2005)
  This summary is based on a dissertation study at the Delft Technical University concerning the assesment of sewer systems taking in account uncertainties.
• Improving the co-ordination of work carried out in underground public space (summary, 2004)
  In order to reduce nuisance and improve maintainability of underground infrastructure this publication contains recommendations for better co-ordination

Literature Database
 

• International Urban Drainage Research Database (paper for the 11th ICUD 2005, Copenhagen - Danmark)
  UDIRD is a bibliographical database of publications in journals and conferences since 1995 on sewer management and urban drainage. It contains almost 2000 references and is updated annually. The database can be accessed here.