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Projects
SIMGRO is currently used by several waterboards and is applied in several projects in the Netherlands as well as abroad. The system can be applied to answer questions like:
- how does the water system react on extreme events or climate change?;
- where can inundations be expected?;
- how is crop damage caused by inundation geographically distributed?;
- how do groundwater levels react on normal and extreme climatological events?
SIMGRO is particularly useful for the evaluation of effects of water management measures, belonging to the following categories:
Surface water management
- manipulation of open water levels during the growing season and periods of high discharge;
- supply of foreign water through open channels; various options, time-dependent flow rates.
Drainage- and collector systems
- densities of networks of ditches and trenches;
- modification of cross-sections of channels;
- allocation of weirs;
- installation of subsurface drainage systems (depth, spacing);
- intentional routing of drainage effluent through open collectors through specific channel(sections).
Water supply for agriculture
- sprinkling from groundwater;
- sprinkling from surface waters.
Water resources management
- location(s) and rate of groundwater abstraction for drinking water;
- location(s) and rate of groundwater abstraction for water for industrial use;
- location(s) and rate of groundwater abstraction for greenhouse horticulture.
Land use
- replacement of agricultural crops by natural vegetation;
- felling of trees;
- expansion of urban areas into farmland.
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