Data set belonging to paper "Hungry rivers—Insights from a sediment budget"

Objective of the study was to assess the sediment load in the Meuse river under normal conditions and during a flood period. For normal conditions the period 2011-2019 was used, for which consistent data were available. This provided an average annual sediment load for that period. For the flood event, the extreme event of July 2021 was used, providing an assessment of the sediment load during the event.The study was performed using available data on bed level changes in the main river channel and on the floodplains, dredging data, bank erosion data as well as numerical hydrodynamic simulations to assess shear stresses. Data were collected from management files of Rijkswaterstaat (river manager), fieldwork (floodplain deposition) and national bed elevation data. In a desk study these data were combined into volumes and mass of alluvial sediment (sand and gravel).