Hydraulic Review of the Flood Protection Measures in Bardejov
Abstract The contribution is dedicated to hydraulic analysis of the flood protection of county town Bardejov in the north-east part of Slovakia where after numerous floods on the Topľa River the flood protection has been constructed just partially in the central residential area of the city (phase I.) Next phases II. and III., which append to phase I. upstream and downstream are currently in a process of evaluation, so the flood protection of the city is far from being complete. The submitted article deals with hydraulic assessment of realized flood protection measures and their impact on proposal of phases II. and III. Authors have solved the given problem using mathematical modelling of open channel flow for steady and unsteady conditions of flood discharge at really measured flood wave in the year 2010 which was very close to the value of Q100 water. At the same time, they have proposed flood protection measures on the Topľa River in localities which are not considered and not solved by present realized flood protection. Proposed flood protection measures downstream and upstream of the realized flood protection were proven by mathematical modelling in HEC-RAS software program and they should get under control even the historical flood which appeared in Bardejov City in 2010.