Road and Floods
"Developing GUIDELINES FOR THE planning and design OF ENVIRONMENTALY FRIENDLY AND ECONOMICALLY SOUND ROADS IN THE Mekong floodplains of CAMBODIA AND VIETNAM"
Contact Us
Integrated River Basin Management
UNESCO-IHE (Delft Cluster)
Westvest 7, 2601 AX Delft,
The Netherlands
T: +31 15 215.1712
Mr. Huynh Minh Ngoc
Manager of Component 2&3
Flood Management and Mitigation Program (FMMP)
Mekong River Commission Secretariat
# 364, Preah Monivong Boulevard, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
T: +855 23 726622
Ext. 2071
Marc Goichot
Coordinator Integrated River Basin Management
Living Mekong Programme
WWF Office, House # 39, Unit 05 Saylom Road,
Saylom Village,
PO Box 7871
Vientiane, Lao PDR
T: +856 21 216080
Ext. 107
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This project is a partneship between Delft Cluster, MRC-FMMP and WWF-LMP, implemented in cooperation with Cambodian National Mekong Committee (CNMC) and Vietnamese National Mekong Committee (VNMC)
Common understandings:
“Flooding in the lowlands in the lower Mekong River Basin is a natural phenomenon that is essential to food security and biodiversity”*
“Flood management should be reviewed and focused more on getting human establishments in urban and rural areas to be more transparent to floods”*
*Outcome of the international workshop on “Values and Functions of the Mekong Floods - Developing Information for a Balanced Dialogue through Local Experience, A Contribution to the Dialogue on Water Food and the Environment Vientiane, Lao PDR, 26 – 28 October, 2004
Rationale 'Roads and Floods'
1) Roads are important for the socio-economic development of the LMB
2) Roads are regularly damaged after floods and repairs are costly
3) Roads fragmentize the floodplains and change hydraulics and hence impacts on agriculture and movement of fish and other aquatic life
The project addresses those issues and promotes planing and design for roads in the Mekong floodplain that are economically sound and environmentally friendly
Objectives
Develop and promote best practice guidelines for planning, design and maintenance of roads in the floodplains of the Lower Mekong Basin
To:
1) Make future structures more resilient and more transparent to floods, thus
2) Reduce their negative impacts on the agricultural and fisheries productivity of floodplains, biodiversity and river natural morphology
Benefits to both financial investment in development and biodiversity conservation
Project components
1. Scientific analyses of roads and floods for better understanding interactions between roads and floods. outcome = best practice guidelines describing: i) design and planning aspects of roads / environmental impacts; and ii) methodology to assess impacts of road development in an integral manner including environmental impacts; time frame April 2006-March 2008
2. Policy work component to support and facilitate the application of the guidelines by the Government Agencies, international donors and lending institutions January 2007 –December 2010
3. Coordination: Activities to ensure the findings of the project are fully integrated into FMMP (Comp #2) and available to all parties concerned (MRC-FMMP) April 2006-December 2010
The main project end users
The national agencies involved in planning, construction and maintenance of roads, transport, water and environment, development of standards and guidelines.
international donors and lending institutions funding road developments
