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What is the Odra-Vistula Flood Management Project (OVFMP)?

The government program entitled “The Odra-Vistula Flood Management Project (OVFMP)”, implemented by Polish Waters with funds from the state budget, the EU, the World Bank, and the Council of Europe Development Bank, involves carrying out investments to support the development of water management. It envisages the implementation of project activities relating to the Lower, Border, and Middle Odra River, but also investments in the Kłodzko Land, in the Vistula River basin, in the area of Tarnobrzeg, Sandomierz, and the San River mouth as well as in the Kraków area. The OVFMP is the government’s largest coherent program of this type implemented in Poland. The purpose of the implementation of all project activities is to protect the health and life of the population living in riverside areas and associated infrastructure against the effects of flood events.

Flood protection of the Middle and Lower Odra River
Flood Protection of the Kłodzko Valley
Flood Protection of the Upper Vistula

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News

14 May 2024

14 years after the flood: “Safe Vistula – towards a sustainable future” in Sandomierz

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2 February 2024

Professor Janusz Zaleski as the new PCU Director

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20 December 2023

Merry Christmas

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9 October 2023

Large flood protection project for Sandomierz has been completed.

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2 October 2023

10 kilometres of flood embankments on the Łęg River in the municipality of Gorzyce

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29 September 2023

Krosnowice, a dry flood control reservoir – grand opening

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17 September 2023

Ślęzoujście works completed – Wroclaw’s Maślice and Pracze Odrzańskie are safe in terms of flood protection

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15 September 2023

Boboszów – a dry flood control reservoir is ready

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6 July 2022

Completion of flood protection for the city of Wrocław

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22 June 2022

The mission of the World Bank and the Council of Europe Development Bank in the framework of the execution of the Oder and Vistula River Basin Flood Protection Project

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17 January 2022

Important investment completed in 2021!

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29 June 2021

Polish Waters continues to enhance the flood safety of the population in the Kłodzko Land

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7 May 2021

The construction of a docking-mooring base for icebreakers is being launched in Szczecin

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5 April 2021

The Flood Operational Centers with new telecommunications links

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1 February 2021

The address of the office of the PCU changed

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What public consultations can you participate in?

The participation of the society in the preparation and implementation of the OVFMP is of key importance for us and therefore we conduct regular and cyclical public consultations on the implemented investments.

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What investments have we already completed?

The Racibórz Dolny dry polder was commissioned in June 2020. Currently, it is the largest hydraulic structure in Poland. It is designed to provide flood protection for 2.5 million people living in three voivodeships: Śląskie, Opolskie, and Dolnośląskie. The dry polder has a storage capacity of 185 million m³ and can reduce a flood with a magnitude comparable to the catastrophic flood of 1997.

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What investments have we already completed?

The Wrocław Floodway System (WFS) is the largest system of waterways and hydraulic structures in Poland, and one of the largest in Europe, which is located within the area of one urban agglomeration. This system comprises a network of channels, distributaries, and branches of the Odra River. The Odra River Basin Flood Protection Project (ORFPP) involved the following activities: rehabilitation of the Odra embankments, improvements to the Odra channels and canals, and improvements to the Odra-Widawa flood relief channel. Its purpose was to increase the flood carrying capacity of the WFS from 2,200 m³/s to 3,100 m³/s.

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What investments have we already completed?

The OVFMP activities “The Vistula River stage 2” and “The San River III”, which were carried out in the Podkarpacie region, have been completed. The implementation of these investments has increased flood protection for 20,000 people living in an area of 13,000 hectares. Due to the completion of these investments, the gaps have been filled in the flood protection system for the San and Vistula Rivers confluence area and thus a complete protection system has been built. The total value of both these investments was nearly PLN 120 million.

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What investments have we already completed?

The investment “Flood protection of Tarnobrzeg (Vistula River stage 1)” was the first works contract to be completed under the OVFMP by the State Water Holding Polish Waters – Regional Water Management Authority (RZGW) in Rzeszów. The rehabilitation of embankments along a length of about 10 km has allowed the level of flood protection for Podkarpackie Voivodeship to be enhanced and has increased flood safety in the city of Tarnobrzeg for approximately 7,800 people living in an area of about 4,846 ha.

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Are you interested in investments carried out under the OVFMP? Do you want to take part in public consultations? Would you like to get acquainted with the documents, plans and expert opinions regarding the Project? Contact us or a selected unit of the Polish Water National Water Management and gain proven and reliable knowledge!

Na Grobli 14/16 (Building C) 50-421 Wrocław

+48 71 787 86 90

sekretariat.kd@wody.gov.pl

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What is the Odra-Vistula Flood Management Project (OVFMP)?

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What investments have we already completed?

What investments have we already completed?

What investments have we already completed?

What investments have we already completed?

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