Oder flood 2010
The Oder flood in 2010 was one of the largest floods in the Oder since water level records began. Since all three riparian states had made huge efforts to protect against flooding after the disastrous flood of the Oder in 1997 , the damage remained far below that of summer 1997. At the same time and due to the same precipitation event, the Vistula catchment area was also hit by a catastrophic flood with huge damage and loss of Human life.
course
In the upper Oder catchment area, the flood became the second largest since the end of the war . In the period from May 15 to 20, 2010, 350 to 370 mm of rain fell in the Czech catchment area of the Oder. This quickly led to the formation of extreme floods.
At the Czech-Polish border, the second highest flow rate since records began was registered on May 17, at around 2100 cubic meters per second. In 1997 more than 2800 cubic meters per second came here to the drain. The third largest flood is that of August 1985 with 1155 cubic meters per second.
The Buków flooding polder (Oder-km 29–32.5), completed in 2002, was opened in the night of May 17-18 and relieved the Oder by approx. 300 cubic meters per second, so that the discharge in the Oder was 74% to 63% of the peak discharge of 1997 could be reduced.
At the lower level of the Oder River in Miedonia, the high on May 18 was 1.6 m below the high of 1997, but it is still the second highest water level recorded there since 1947.
Water levels
The Brandenburg State Environment Agency compiled and published the highest water levels in 2012.
| Level name |
Or- km |
Max. Water level in cm |
date |
|---|---|---|---|
 Bohumín
|
approx. 20 | 655 | 05/17/2010 |
 Racibórz Miedonia
|
55.5 | 884 | 05/18/2010 |
|
Ujście Nysy
|
180.5 | 720 | 05/20/2010 |
|
Brzeg Dolny
|
284.7 | 958 | 05/23/2010 |
|
Malczyce
|
304.8 | 802 | 05/23/2010 |
|
Ścinawa
|
331.9 | 665 | 05/24/2010 |
|
Głogów
|
392.9 | 683 | 05/25/2010 |
|
Nowa Sól
|
429.8 | 654 | 05/26/2010 |
|
Cigacice
|
471.3 | 649 | 05/26/2010 |
|
Połęcko
|
530.3 | 554 | 05/27/2010 |
 Ratzdorf
|
542.5 | 630 | 05/27/2010 |
|
Eisenhüttenstadt
|
554.1 | 653 | 05/28/2010 |
|
Frankfurt (Oder)
|
584.0 | 600 | 05/28/2010 |
|
Slubice
|
584.1 | 576 | 05/28/2010 |
|
Kietz
|
614.8 | 618 | 05/29/2010 |
|
Kienitz
|
633.0 | 593 | 05/30/2010 |
|
Gozdowice
|
645.3 | 617 | 05/31/2010 |
|
Hohensaaten-Finow
|
664.9 | 688 | 05/31/2010 |
|
Hohensaaten Ostschleuse OP (Oderseite) |
667.2 | 757 | 05/30/2010 |
|
Bielinek
|
673.5 | 699 | 05/31/2010 |
|
Support kow
|
680.5 | 991 | 05/31/2010 |
|
Schwedt Oder Bridge
|
690.6 | 863 | 06/01/2010 |
|
Schwedt Schleuse OP (Oderseite) |
697.0 | 809 | 06/01/2010 |
|
Widuchowa
|
701.8 | 731 | 06/02/2010 |
|
Gartz (Or)
|
8.0 | 669 | 06/02/2010 |
|
Mescherin
|
14.1 | 647 | 06/02/2010 |
|
Gryfino
|
718.5 | 641 | 06/02/2010 |
|
Ückermünde
|
Oderhaff | 566 | May 31 - June 1, 2010 |
- ↑ The level in the Hohensaaten connecting canal is 92.9 km. But it shows the water level of the Oder at the indicated km 667.2.
- ↑ The level in the Schwedter Querfahrt is at km 0.4. But it shows the water level of the Oder at the indicated km 697.0.
- ↑ The level is on the Westoder at km 8.0. Kilometer zero of the Westoder is roughly at the Widuchowa gauge .
- ↑ The water level is on the Westoder at km 14.1. Kilometer zero of the Westoder is roughly at the Widuchowa gauge .
On the upper German section of the Oder from Ratzdorf to Frankfurt (Oder), the guideline values for the highest alert level were reached and exceeded. Alert level IV was declared for these river sections on May 26th and 28th and was in effect until the end of May. Alert level III applied to the entire section of the Oder below. It was not until June 23, 2010 that the entire German / Polish section of the Oder was again free of alarm levels.
Closed flood protection wall in Opole in May 2010
Flooded Kozanów district in Wroclaw (May 22, 2010)
Mobile protective wall in Frankfurt (Oder) during floods in May / June 2010
Flooding of a relief polder on the Lower Oder
See also
- Oder flood disaster in 1947
- Oder winter floods 1981/82
- Oder flood 1997
- Floods in Central Europe in spring 2010
literature
- Eberhard Schmidt , Barbara Stein, Matthias Hummel: Origin and hydrological course of the Oder flood in May / June 2010 . In: Hydrologie und Wasserbewirtschaftung , No. 5, 2010, pp. 315-320.
- Maciej Maciejewski, Mieczysław S. Ostojski, Tamara Tokarczyk: Dorzecze Odry. Monografia powodzi 2010 . Warsaw 2011, ISBN 978-83-61102-60-1
- The summer floods of the Oder in 2010 . (PDF; 5.8 MB) LUGV specialist articles, No. 129. Potsdam. September 2012
- Wiwiana Szalińska, Irena Otop, Tamara Tokarczyk: Precipitation extremes during flooding in the Odra River Basin in May-June 2010 . In: Meteorology, Hydrology and Water Management , 1/2014, vol. 2, ISSN 2299-3835
- Frank Krüger and Marko Oelze: The dike construction program on the Oder - the 2010 practical test . In: Stephan Meimerl and Heribert Meyer (eds.): Preventive and follow-up flood protection . Wiesbaden 2014, pp. 330–337, ISBN 978-3-658-03739-0
Web links
- Oder flood reaches Brandenburg . Spiegel Online , May 24, 2010
- The wave is getting closer . In: taz , May 25, 2010
- The level of the Oder continues to rise . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , May 25, 2010
- Jörg Uwe Belz and Wilfried Wiechmann: Spring floods in east and south-east Germany . Koblenz June 4th 2010
- The Oder floods in spring 2010 . Undine information platform