https://restorerivers.eu/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=Trapa RESTORE - User contributions [en] 2026-04-22T07:07:25Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.39.7 https://restorerivers.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Case_study:Morava_restoration_project&diff=18324 Case study:Morava restoration project 2013-09-11T06:31:35Z <p>Trapa: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Case_study_status<br /> |Approval status=<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Draft<br /> }}<br /> {{Location<br /> |Location=48.28250369232732, 16.907066343119368<br /> }}<br /> {{Project overview<br /> |Status=In progress<br /> |Project web site url=www.life-march.at/<br /> |Themes=Economic aspects, Fisheries, Habitat and biodiversity, Hydromorphology, Land use management - agriculture, Social benefits, Water quality<br /> |Country=Austria, Slovakia<br /> |Main contact forename=Michael<br /> |Main contact surname=Stelzhammer<br /> |Contact organisation=WWF Austria<br /> |Contact organisation url=www.wwf.at<br /> |Partner organisations=via donau; NÖ Landesfischereiverband<br /> |Multi-site=No<br /> |Project picture=Morava.jpg<br /> |Project summary=The Morava River is the largest left-side tributary to the Upper Danube in Central Europe and Austria’s only near natural lowland river with Pannonian character. The frequent flooding is essential for the floodplain’s grassland and forests. Due to regulation and intensification measures in the last century the river is now classified only with a moderate status (according the EC Water Framework Directive) and habitats for endangered species of fauna and flora are limited.<br /> There have been a number of restoration projects and implementation measures which aim to restore natural river dynamics and promote appropriate land-use practices within a sensitive floodplain environment.<br /> Within the EC supported Life+ project “Restoration of the Lower Morava Floodplains” ambitious restoration measures will be implemented between 2011 and 2017.<br /> The aim of the project is to extensively restore near-natural river dynamics in the Lower Morava floodplains, as well as to foster land-use practices, which preserve biodiversity and to specifically preserve endangered species and types of habitats.<br /> |Monitoring surveys and results=See the latest monitoring results on the projects webpage http://www.life-march.at/monitoring.html<br /> }}<br /> {{Image_gallery}}<br /> {{Image_gallery_end}}<br /> {{Toggle button}}<br /> {{Toggle content start}}<br /> {{Case_study_subcatchment<br /> |Subcatchment=<br /> <br /> <br /> Morava<br /> }}<br /> {{Site<br /> |Name=<br /> <br /> <br /> Morava<br /> |WFD water body code=<br /> <br /> |WFD (national) typology=<br /> <br /> |WFD water body name=<br /> <br /> |Pre-project morphology=<br /> Straight<br /> |Reference morphology=<br /> Sinuous<br /> |Heavily modified water body=<br /> true<br /> |Local site designation=<br /> Montreaux list<br /> |Site designation=<br /> <br /> |Protected species present=<br /> <br /> |Invasive species present=<br /> <br /> |Species=<br /> <br /> |Dominant hydrology=<br /> Quick run-off,Artificially regulated<br /> |Dominant substrate=<br /> Gravel,Bedrock<br /> |River corridor land use=<br /> Extensive agriculture<br /> |Average bankfull channel width category=<br /> <br /> |Avrg bankfull channel width=<br /> <br /> |Average bankfull channel depth category=<br /> <br /> |Avrg1 bankfull channel depth=<br /> <br /> |Mean discharge category=<br /> <br /> |Mn discharge=<br /> <br /> |Average channel gradient category=<br /> <br /> |Avrg channel gradient=<br /> <br /> }}<br /> {{Project background<br /> |Reach length directly affected=16000 m<br /> |Works started=2005/04/01<br /> |Works completed=2013/09/09<br /> |Total cost category=1000 - 5000 k€<br /> |Funding sources=World Bank<br /> }}<br /> {{Motivations<br /> |Hydromorphological quality elements=<br /> <br /> <br /> Quantity &amp; dynamics of flow,Continuity for organisms,Continuity of sediment transport<br /> |Biological quality elements=<br /> Fish: Abundance,Fish: Species composition<br /> |Physico-chemical quality elements=<br /> <br /> |Specific mitigation=<br /> <br /> |Other motivation=<br /> Flood risk management,Community demand<br /> }}<br /> {{Measures<br /> |Bank and bed modifications measure=<br /> <br /> <br /> Creation of groynes,Creation of deflectors<br /> |Floodplain / River corridor=<br /> Dyke relocation,Increase water retention area<br /> |Planform / Channel pattern=<br /> Re-connection of river channels,Introducing sinuosity,Meanders reopened<br /> |Other technical measure=<br /> <br /> |Management interventions=<br /> <br /> |Social measures=<br /> Land purchase<br /> |Wider stakeholder / citizen engagement=<br /> <br /> }}<br /> {{Hydromorphological_quality_elements_header}}<br /> {{End_table}}<br /> {{Biological_quality_elements_header}}<br /> {{Biological_quality_element_table_row<br /> |Element=<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Fish: Abundance<br /> |Monitored before=<br /> <br /> |Monitored after=<br /> Yes<br /> |Qualitative monitoring=<br /> <br /> |Quantitative monitoring=<br /> Yes<br /> |Control site used=<br /> <br /> |Result=<br /> Improvement<br /> }}<br /> {{Biological_quality_element_table_row<br /> |Element=<br /> <br /> <br /> Fish: Species composition<br /> |Monitored before=<br /> <br /> |Monitored after=<br /> Yes<br /> |Qualitative monitoring=<br /> <br /> |Quantitative monitoring=<br /> Yes<br /> |Control site used=<br /> <br /> |Result=<br /> Improvement<br /> }}<br /> {{End_table}}<br /> {{Physico-chemical_quality_elements_header}}<br /> {{End_table}}<br /> {{Other_responses_header}}<br /> {{Other_response_table_row<br /> |Element=<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Public awareness of river<br /> |Monitored before=<br /> <br /> |Monitored after=<br /> Yes<br /> |Qualitative monitoring=<br /> Yes<br /> |Quantitative monitoring=<br /> <br /> |Control site used=<br /> <br /> |Result=<br /> Improvement<br /> }}<br /> {{End_table}}<br /> {{Monitoring_documents}}<br /> {{Monitoring_documents_end}}<br /> {{Additional_Documents}}<br /> {{Additional_Documents_end}}<br /> {{Additional links and references header}}<br /> {{Additional links and references<br /> |Link=www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;frm=1&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;ved=0CDYQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.danubeparks.org%2Ffiles%2F1594_MoravaRevitalization_KHolubova.pdf&amp;ei=V-YqUtjGNMHcswbf5IDYBQ&amp;usg=AFQjCNFtlC9F5wG0k7-3BJFhgbJBvsCS7g&amp;sig2=EfLe-_iGvPMPqEmCLXaYkw&amp;bvm=bv.51773540,d.Yms<br /> |Description=talk by Katarina Holubova and Franz Steiner<br /> }}<br /> {{Additional links and references<br /> |Link=www.ramsar.org/pdf/lib/hbk4-07cs20.pdf<br /> |Description=Jan Seffer and Viera Stanova Paper on the restoration<br /> }}<br /> {{Additional links and references<br /> |Link=http://ec.europa.eu/environment/life/project/Projects/index.cfm?fuseaction=search.dspPage&amp;n_proj_id=4070#EI<br /> |Description=EU life webpage<br /> }}<br /> {{Additional_links_and_references_footer}}<br /> {{Supplementary_Information<br /> |Information=<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> }}<br /> {{Case_study_upload}}<br /> {{Toggle content end}}</div> Trapa https://restorerivers.eu/wiki/index.php?title=Case_study:Morava_restoration_project&diff=18323 Case study:Morava restoration project 2013-09-11T06:24:52Z <p>Trapa: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Case_study_status<br /> |Approval status=<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Draft<br /> }}<br /> {{Location<br /> |Location=48.342330774780954, 16.870193481445312<br /> }}<br /> {{Project overview<br /> |Status=In progress<br /> |Project web site url=www.life-march.at/<br /> |Themes=Economic aspects, Fisheries, Habitat and biodiversity, Hydromorphology, Land use management - agriculture, Social benefits, Water quality<br /> |Country=Austria, Slovakia<br /> |Main contact forename=Michael<br /> |Main contact surname=Stelzhammer<br /> |Contact organisation=WWF Austria<br /> |Contact organisation url=www.wwf.at<br /> |Partner organisations=via donau; NÖ Landesfischereiverband<br /> |Multi-site=No<br /> |Project picture=Morava.jpg<br /> |Project summary=The Morava River is the largest left-side tributary to the Upper Danube in Central Europe and Austria’s only near natural lowland river with Pannonian character. The frequent flooding is essential for the floodplain’s grassland and forests. Due to regulation and intensification measures in the last century the river is now classified only with a moderate status (according the EC Water Framework Directive) and habitats for endangered species of fauna and flora are limited.<br /> There have been a number of restoration projects and implementation measures which aim to restore natural river dynamics and promote appropriate land-use practices within a sensitive floodplain environment.<br /> Within the EC supported Life+ project “Restoration of the Lower Morava Floodplains” ambitious restoration measures will be implemented between 2011 and 2017.<br /> The aim of the project is to extensively restore near-natural river dynamics in the Lower Morava floodplains, as well as to foster land-use practices, which preserve biodiversity and to specifically preserve endangered species and types of habitats.<br /> |Monitoring surveys and results=See the latest monitoring results on the projects webpage http://www.life-march.at/monitoring.html<br /> }}<br /> {{Image_gallery}}<br /> {{Image_gallery_end}}<br /> {{Toggle button}}<br /> {{Toggle content start}}<br /> {{Case_study_subcatchment<br /> |Subcatchment=<br /> <br /> <br /> Morava<br /> }}<br /> {{Site<br /> |Name=<br /> <br /> <br /> Morava<br /> |WFD water body code=<br /> <br /> |WFD (national) typology=<br /> <br /> |WFD water body name=<br /> <br /> |Pre-project morphology=<br /> Straight<br /> |Reference morphology=<br /> Sinuous<br /> |Heavily modified water body=<br /> true<br /> |Local site designation=<br /> Montreaux list<br /> |Site designation=<br /> <br /> |Protected species present=<br /> <br /> |Invasive species present=<br /> <br /> |Species=<br /> <br /> |Dominant hydrology=<br /> Quick run-off,Artificially regulated<br /> |Dominant substrate=<br /> Gravel,Bedrock<br /> |River corridor land use=<br /> Extensive agriculture<br /> |Average bankfull channel width category=<br /> <br /> |Avrg bankfull channel width=<br /> <br /> |Average bankfull channel depth category=<br /> <br /> |Avrg1 bankfull channel depth=<br /> <br /> |Mean discharge category=<br /> <br /> |Mn discharge=<br /> <br /> |Average channel gradient category=<br /> <br /> |Avrg channel gradient=<br /> <br /> }}<br /> {{Project background<br /> |Reach length directly affected=16000 m<br /> |Works started=2005/04/01<br /> |Works completed=2013/09/09<br /> |Total cost category=1000 - 5000 k€<br /> |Funding sources=World Bank<br /> }}<br /> {{Motivations<br /> |Hydromorphological quality elements=<br /> <br /> <br /> Quantity &amp; dynamics of flow,Continuity for organisms,Continuity of sediment transport<br /> |Biological quality elements=<br /> Fish: Abundance,Fish: Species composition<br /> |Physico-chemical quality elements=<br /> <br /> |Specific mitigation=<br /> <br /> |Other motivation=<br /> Flood risk management,Community demand<br /> }}<br /> {{Measures<br /> |Bank and bed modifications measure=<br /> <br /> <br /> Creation of groynes,Creation of deflectors<br /> |Floodplain / River corridor=<br /> Dyke relocation,Increase water retention area<br /> |Planform / Channel pattern=<br /> Re-connection of river channels,Introducing sinuosity,Meanders reopened<br /> |Other technical measure=<br /> <br /> |Management interventions=<br /> <br /> |Social measures=<br /> Land purchase<br /> |Wider stakeholder / citizen engagement=<br /> <br /> }}<br /> {{Hydromorphological_quality_elements_header}}<br /> {{End_table}}<br /> {{Biological_quality_elements_header}}<br /> {{Biological_quality_element_table_row<br /> |Element=<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Fish: Abundance<br /> |Monitored before=<br /> <br /> |Monitored after=<br /> Yes<br /> |Qualitative monitoring=<br /> <br /> |Quantitative monitoring=<br /> Yes<br /> |Control site used=<br /> <br /> |Result=<br /> Improvement<br /> }}<br /> {{Biological_quality_element_table_row<br /> |Element=<br /> <br /> <br /> Fish: Species composition<br /> |Monitored before=<br /> <br /> |Monitored after=<br /> Yes<br /> |Qualitative monitoring=<br /> <br /> |Quantitative monitoring=<br /> Yes<br /> |Control site used=<br /> <br /> |Result=<br /> Improvement<br /> }}<br /> {{End_table}}<br /> {{Physico-chemical_quality_elements_header}}<br /> {{End_table}}<br /> {{Other_responses_header}}<br /> {{Other_response_table_row<br /> |Element=<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Public awareness of river<br /> |Monitored before=<br /> <br /> |Monitored after=<br /> Yes<br /> |Qualitative monitoring=<br /> Yes<br /> |Quantitative monitoring=<br /> <br /> |Control site used=<br /> <br /> |Result=<br /> Improvement<br /> }}<br /> {{End_table}}<br /> {{Monitoring_documents}}<br /> {{Monitoring_documents_end}}<br /> {{Additional_Documents}}<br /> {{Additional_Documents_end}}<br /> {{Additional links and references header}}<br /> {{Additional links and references<br /> |Link=www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;frm=1&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;ved=0CDYQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.danubeparks.org%2Ffiles%2F1594_MoravaRevitalization_KHolubova.pdf&amp;ei=V-YqUtjGNMHcswbf5IDYBQ&amp;usg=AFQjCNFtlC9F5wG0k7-3BJFhgbJBvsCS7g&amp;sig2=EfLe-_iGvPMPqEmCLXaYkw&amp;bvm=bv.51773540,d.Yms<br /> |Description=talk by Katarina Holubova and Franz Steiner<br /> }}<br /> {{Additional links and references<br /> |Link=www.ramsar.org/pdf/lib/hbk4-07cs20.pdf<br /> |Description=Jan Seffer and Viera Stanova Paper on the restoration<br /> }}<br /> {{Additional links and references<br /> |Link=http://ec.europa.eu/environment/life/project/Projects/index.cfm?fuseaction=search.dspPage&amp;n_proj_id=4070#EI<br /> |Description=EU life webpage<br /> }}<br /> {{Additional_links_and_references_footer}}<br /> {{Supplementary_Information<br /> |Information=<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> }}<br /> {{Case_study_upload}}<br /> {{Toggle content end}}</div> Trapa