Recreating the bocage of the Pays de Herve and the peat bogs of the Fagnes, curbing the urbanization of the countryside, this should make it possible to slow down the next floods in the Vesdre valley. These are proposals from the strategic plan presented a few days ago to the 25 mayors of the municipalities in the Vesdre catchment area.
Floods, there will be others. You have to prepare for them, you have to resist them, you have to try to limit them. How ? First by retaining water on the trays. Replanting hedges and orchards in the Pays de Herve will prevent rainwater from flowing down the slopes too quickly. And then on the Hautes Fagnes plateau, you have to recreate a peat bog sponge, explains Verviers town planner Joël Privot: “the Hautes-Fagnes plateau provided more than half of the flow of the flood [mesuré à] Oak. We had more or less a thousand cubic meters per second and the plateau provided 500. The objective is that if we retain the water very upstream and on both sides, we should not experience such events once more.” .
