Water Management in Park The Example of Kazimierzowski

Water Management in Park The Example of Kazimierzowski Park in Warsaw Przemysław Wolski Department of Landscape Architecture. Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture. Warsaw University of Life Sciences E-Learning Unit: Urban Landscape and Water Management Warsaw, 27. 08. 2009

Rafał Mroczkowski and Przemysław Wolski are the authors of the project on Modernization and Restoration of Kazimierzowski Park in Warsaw. In 2007 the Project was awarded the 1 st prize in the competition of Zarząd Terenów Publicznych ( Management Committee of Public Spaces ) in Warsaw; it is to be implemented this year.

The project’s aims: Improvement of hydrological functioning of the park and utilisation of its water resources were among the main aims of the project, in order to expand the functional programme of the park.

Characteristics of a park and a garden in good hydrologic condition Well designed parks and gardens should retain on its surface the whole annual sum of precipitation.

The park’s present management system of precipitation water

The area of the park is fed by precipitation and drainage water from the areas situated outside of the park. Rapids and energy compensating chambers carrying precipitation water from the slopes of Skarpa Warszawska embankment (present state)

Kazimierzowski Park in Warsaw. A body of water 60 centimetres deep. Present state

Kazimierzowski Park in Warsaw. A body of water at the base of the embankment. Present state

Kazimierzowski Park in Warsaw. Management system of precipitation water. Present state

Kazimierzowski Park in Warsaw. Present condition: 1. entrance squares; 2. water reservations; 3. monument; 4. play ground

It was estimated that during a rain squall on the park’s grounds, in result of a surface flow, some 245 cubic metre of water could be carried to the storm drainage system.

Designed elements of the water system of the park Pumping station with a balance tank of 554 cubic metre total capacity Stream 130 metres long with 5 cascades, with habitat pockets which contain hydrophytes, through which water will be filtered 2 channels with 36 metres of total length 690 square metre, biologically active pond with a filter consisting of rushes and with riparian vegetation Cascade 2. 2 metres high 134 square metre water carpet 2 fountains with an accompanying 330 square metre shallow pool

Kazimierzowski Park, Warsaw. Modernization and Restoration Plan: 1. entrance squares; 2. monument; 3. play ground; 4. coffee-house; 5. park toilets; 6. underground pumping station; 7. water cascade; 8. ”water carpet” based on baroque style (the wading pool); 9. water channel; 10. water garden; 11. seminatural stream with cascades; 12. pond; 13. underground circulating pumping station; 14. bulrush filter 15. riparian plants; 16. platform