Muddy Flood - Temporal Evolution

Temporal Evolution

An increase in muddy flood frequency has been observed during the last twenty years (e.g. in central Belgium,). This increase in their frequency may be due to a number of factors including:

  • Change in agricultural practices that leave field bare of cops in the autumn and winter
  • A shift to crops that are more sensitive to soil erosion;
  • land consolidation (enlargement of fields, removal of landscape buffer elements such as hedges.
  • construction of new houses, upstream of cropland increasing run-off volumes and intensity
  • increased frequency of heavy rainfall.

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