4 th International Conference Hydro Informatics 2000 Flood

4 th International Conference Hydro Informatics 2000 Flood Management Information System (FMIS) in Hungary L. Szlávik Civ. Eng. , Ph. D. , Water Resources Research Centre Plc. (VITUKI), Budapest, Hungary G. Jónás Elec. Eng. Uni. Office System's House, Budapest, Hungary

4 th International Conference Hydro Informatics 2000 Contents : Ø Importance of flood defence in Hungary Ø Description of the Flood Management Information System (FMIS)

The location of Hungary within Europe

The major streams of Hungary

Areas inundated permanently and periodically within the Carpathian Basin prior to the flood control and reclamation project (1830)

4 th International Conference Hydro Informatics 2000 Of the 93 000 km 2 large territory of the country 21 248 km 2 (22, 8 %) are floodplains, levees protecting 97 % thereof against inundation by river floods. Facts and figures on the reclaimed flood plains: Ø 2, 5 million people in close to 700 communities are exposed to flood hazard Ø one-third of arable lands in Hungary: 18000 km 2 valuable farmland Ø the floodplains contain 32% of the railway lines and 15% of the roads Ø over 2000 industries have settled here Ø about 25% of the gross domestic product is produced

Flood defenses and protected floodplains in Hungary

Hungary Tisza Valley (in Hungary) Po Valley (Italy) Ukraine The Netherlands Loire Valley (France) Hungary Tisza Valley (in Hungary) The Netherlands Po Valley (Italy) Ukraine Zuider-zee Loire Valley (France) Comparison of the major flood control developments in Europe

Rising flood peaks on the Tisza and her tributaries

Successive embankment strenghtening along the Tisza and her tributaries

Functions and hierarchic relations in flood emergency control

4 th International Conference Hydro Informatics 2000 The main agencies involved in implementing emergency measures on the state-owned inundation control structures and their functions are – Ø the twelve district water authorities and the Municipality Budapest – local organization, guidance and actual implementation of flood emergency measures; Ø the Ministry of Transport, Communication and Water Management, the National Water Authority – national level organization and control; Ø the Central Flood Fighting Organization and the Water. Resources Research Centre (VITUKI) - National Hydrological Forecasting Service – national level special functions

Links of a regional water authority during flood emergency

4 th International Conference Hydro Informatics 2000 The Flood Management Information System FMIS objectives Ø extending the lead time for preparing emergency measures; Ø providing information processed, analysed, assembled, compared and presented at the highest possible level for decision making on alternative emergency measures in a particular emergency situation.

4 th International Conference Hydro Informatics 2000 FMIS functions Ø supporting the emergency control activities at the particular agency on a local area network; Ø ensuring information flow to and from emergency control levels above and below the particular agency via the channels of communication;

Flood emergency control levels National level Regional control centre Special sections Levee sections

4 th International Conference Hydro Informatics 2000 The important principes of the FMIS Ø flood fighting depends for its effectiveness on a wealth of information - the techniques of information gathering and processing, the methods of situation assessment has to be uniform throughout the service. Ø the reports have to be standardized Ø information flow between the various interrelated levels of control must be coordinated, Ø overlapping data communication has to be eliminated.

4 th International Conference Hydro Informatics 2000 The professional tasks to guide flood fighting Ø collection, recording, processing and forwarding information; Ø situation analysis, assessment, decision preparation; Ø decision making on flood fighting measures; Ø organisation, guidance of flood fighting activities, supervision of their implementation; Ø preparation and forwarding reports and information; Ø documenting these activities.

4 th International Conference Hydro Informatics 2000 The FMIS structure Sub-systems : Ø Information on the hydrological situation Ø Surveillance reports on the defenses Ø Emergency diaries, emergency administration Ø Reports, information Ø Management of emergency resources Ø Flood fighting aids

4 th International Conference Hydro Informatics 2000 System arhitecture of the FMIS List of components: Ø 51 Lotus Domino application servers (which optionally function web servers and SMTP MTAs as well) Ø 15 Microsoft SQL servers Ø more than 400 Lotus Notes workstations in 17 regional centers and at about 100 locations across the country Ø telephone communication lines (33600 bps), leased analog lines and ISDN connections Ø Lotus Domino Fax Gateway at regional centers for outbound faxing Ø Lotus Enterprise Integrator based data connection between Notes and relational databases Ø 45 unique FMIS-oriented Lotus Notes application-modules

4 th International Conference FMIS in use Hydro Informatics 2000 Ø The first applications were started in the first half of 1994 between the centers of 17 institutions directly involved in flood emergency control. Ø Regular, routine FMIS applications have been continuous since July 1, 1994. Ø Over the past five years several hundred thousand electronic mails were exchanged between the co-operating partners with a high level of availability and reliability Ø 1998, 99, 2000 for 18 months – 3 extremes flood in Hungary - the FMIS worked without problems