RESEARCH PROJECT

Floodtool

Updated: October 2025

Project overview

Project start: June 2025 Ending: May 2028
Project manager: Pia Geranmayeh
Funded by: Swedish farmers’ foundation for agricultural research (Stiftelsen Lantbruksforskning)

Participants

Research groups:

Global goals

  • 6. Clean water and sanitation
  • 13. Climate action

Short summary

Together with the Swedish Property Board we use digital tools to estimate how much water that can be stored in forest upstream agricultural fields. The aim is to reduce erosion and standing water on downstream fields. 

We will measure what effect a detention pond in the forest has on water quality downstream. Further we assess potential barriers to implement detention ponds and what compensations are needed to upstream landowners.

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