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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