Case study:Restoration of Vesselina River

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Location: 43° 1' 48.51" N, 25° 49' 33.96" E

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Project overview

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Status	Complete
Project web site
Themes	Hydromorphology
Country	Bulgaria
Main contact forename	Ivan
Main contact surname	Hristov
Main contact user ID
Contact organisation	WWF Danube Carpathian programme Bulgaria
Contact organisation web site	http://www.wwf.bg
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Parent multi-site project
This is a parent project encompassing the following projects	No

Vasselina River area

Project summary

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WWF together with local people from Mindya village in the region of Veliko Turnovo, restored the connection of Veselina River, a tributary of Yantra, with its former meander near the village. When the river meander was cut off back in time, the river dug nearly 150 cm deeper into its bed, so now a threshold had to be built to raise its level enough for enabling it run back to its old bed. The project objective is by conducting a number of technical, environmental and forest management activities to achieve ecosystem restoration of the river Vesselina in particular: • Conservation and restoration of biodiversity in isolated old bed of the river and correction of Vesselina river near by Mindya village; • Create favorable conditions for development of recreation and tourism in the region; • Reduce the level of flood risk; • Optimization of groundwater level and reduce the impact of drought and floods on agricultural land in river terrace; • Reduction of erosion; • Increased self-purification capacity of water flow in the region of isolated old bed of the river.

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Catchment and subcatchment

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Catchment

River basin district	Danube
River basin	Yantra River

Subcatchment

River name	Vesselina
Area category	100 - 1000 km²
Area (km2)
Maximum altitude category	200 - 500 m
Maximum altitude (m)
Dominant geology	Calcareous
Ecoregion	Pontic Province
Dominant land cover	Woodland
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WFD water body codes	BG1YN130R029
WFD (national) typology	BGTR7
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Pre-project morphology	Straightened
Reference morphology	Sinuous
Desired post project morphology
Heavily modified water body	true
National/international site designation	EU - Special Protected Area
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Protected species present
Invasive species present
Species of interest
Dominant hydrology	Artificially regulated
Dominant substrate	Gravel
River corridor land use	Woodland
Average bankfull channel width category	5 - 10 m
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Average bankfull channel depth category	0.5 - 2 m
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Project background

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Project started	2005/09/01
Works started	2007/09/01
Works completed	2008/04/01
Project completed
Total cost category	50 - 100 k€
Total cost (k€)	7676 k€ <br />76,000 € <br />
Benefit to cost ratio
Funding sources	WWF, DOEN Foundation

Cost for project phases

Phase	cost category	cost exact (k€)	Lead organisation	Contact forename	Contact surname
Investigation and design	10 - 50 k€
Stakeholder engagement and communication	1 - 10 k€
Works and works supervision	1 - 10 k€
Post-project management and maintenance	Less than 1 k€
Monitoring	Less than 1 k€

Reasons for river restoration

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Mitigation of a pressure	Riparian development
Hydromorphology	Continuity for organisms
Biology	Fish: Species composition
Physico-chemical
Other reasons for the project	Landscape enhancement

Measures

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Monitoring

Hydromorphological quality elements

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Element	When monitored		Type of monitoring		Control site used	Result
	Before measures	After measures	Qualitative	Quantitative
Continuity for organisms						No change

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Fish: Species composition						Improvement

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Vesselina River - before restoration

Vesselina River - during restoration

Vesselina River - during restoration

Vesselina River - during restoration

Vesselina River - after restoration

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Additional links and references

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Link	Description
http://www.veliko-tarnovo.bg/bg/	Veliko Tarnovo municipality
http://www.wwf.bg/	WWF-Bulgaria

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