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Régis THEPOT Chief Executive Officer of Etablissement Public Loire
3rd Yangtze Forum – Shanghai – April 2009
Integrated River Basin Management of the Loire river
From conflict to stakeholder involvement
Loire river basin
Etablissement public Loire
The Plan Loire grandeur nature. From conflict to skakeholder involvement
3rd Yangtze Forum – Shanghai – April 2009
Area: 100.000 km²
Length : 1.000 km
Very irregular flow
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Upper part of the basin
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The Middle LoireAmboise
Angers
Orléans
Nevers
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Nuclear plant
Levees, breaches and spillways in in the middle Loire
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2003’s flood (middle Loire) 1949’s draught
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Downstream Loire
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. 6 Regions
. 16 Departments
. 18 Cities
Etablissement Public LoireA Public Institution gathering local communities
at the river basin level
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A tool for solidarity and subsidiarity at river basin level
Area of competence
Operating two dams Naussac and Villerest
Role of EP Loire
Flood prevention
Water ressources management
Water
Local development
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Dams of Villerest and Naussac
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Plan Loire grandeur nature From conflict to stakeholder involvement
Description of the Plan
Presentation of 3 examples in the flood prevention field
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Plan Loire grandeur nature 1994 - 2006
3 main contractors
Initialy a top-down approach
Was decided by the governement in 1994 after fierce ecological conflicts concerning the construction of dams
Duration : initially 10 years prolonged to 12
310 M€ / 3 billion RMB
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Serre de la Fare
Main Objectives
- integrated management of the Loire river basin - a joint approach associating involved actors and scientific assessment
Plan Loire 2007-2013
A top-down and bottom up approach
Based on the EU WFD and the Aarhus convention :
- global assessment of Plan Loire 1994-2006
- consultation in 2006 of the stakeholders in order to elaborate a strategic document defining shared stakes
- organization of regional and thematic meetings on the whole Loire basin
- dedicated website forum
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Global budget 2007-2013 :
400 M€ / 4 billions RMB
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Safety of population facing flood risks
Managing water resources
Restoring natural aquatic ecosystem and wetlands
Enhancing the Loire valley heritage
Developing research and data exchanges
5 key fields of action in 2007-2013
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Flood prevention- Risk mapping
- Monitoring of the expansion of urban areas in floodplains
- Reinforcing the means for warning systems
- Evacuation plans
- Development measures – Mitigation policy
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3 examples in the flood prevention field illustrating the stakeholder
involvement• At the river basin scale, an « industrial »
approach aimed at reducing the vulnerabilty to flooding for the economic activities
- In the middle Loire Joint planning approach
- Testing a flood risk management plan
Example 1 : An « industrial » approach aimed at reducing the
vulnerabity to flooding
In the middle Loire 15.000 companies are in flood prone areas, and within 2013 :
• 3000 companies will have carried out an assessment of their vulnerability and taken actions to reduce it
• 900 companies, sectors and activity zones will have implemented effective and urgent measures to reduce their vulnerability
Middle Loire risk assessment
• 240 towns and villages• 300.000 inhabitants• 115.000 accomodations• 15.000 companies• 72.000 employments• 87.000 ha for agriculture
Estimated damages:
10 billion € (100 billion RNB)
Damages breakdown
Compagnies (65%)
Accomodations (27%)
Agriculture (7%)
Equipments (1%)
Roads (1%)
Flooding similar to the major desasters of the 19 th century (1846,1856, 1866)would threaten :
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Middle Loire flood prevention strategy
Designed in 1999
Based on a three-pronged approach, being implemented parallel :
Telemetry network
Prediction Prevention Protection
Spillway www.osiris-inondation.fr
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Example 2 : Joint Planning approach
in middle Loire• A product of Dutch, French and German on the European project «Freude am Fluss » lead partner Radboud University Nijmegen
• 6 steps : mutual learning ; shared visioning ; rules and institutions ; exploring joint options ; joint design ; implementation
• Method now used by the governement and EP Loire to implement the flood prevention strategy
Example 3 : Testing a flood risk management plan
• A new EU directive on evaluating and managing flood risks (October 2007)
• A test area for the french Ministry of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and Spatial Planning and EP Loire
www.eptb-loire.frwww.plan-loire.fr
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To get more information
Conclusions
• Plan Loire Grandeur : born out of a conflict about dam construction
• 15 years later in many fields an example of stakeholder involvement
• The sustainable development of a river basin is not Utopia
See you soon along the Loire river !