Case study:The Ciobarciu Wetland Project

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Location: 47° 3' 23.09" N, 27° 51' 9.64" E

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Project overview

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Status	Complete
Project web site	http://www.ciobarciu.ro
Themes	Habitat and biodiversity
Country	Romania
Main contact forename	Anca
Main contact surname	Savin
Main contact user ID
Contact organisation	Prut - Barlad River Basin Authority
Contact organisation web site	http://www.apeprut.ro
Partner organisations	Institute for Inland Water Management RIZA, Regional Water Board Hunze&Aa's, Het Drentse Landschap (NGO for nature management)
Parent multi-site project
This is a parent project encompassing the following projects	No

Ciobarciu Wetland - present situation

Project summary

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The Ciobarciu Wetland Project is an ecological rehabilitation project in the valley of the river Prut. In order to prevent flooding and to extend agricultural surfaces, the common floodplain of Prut and Jijia was embanked. Jijia river course was deviated by digging a channel to the Prut at Chiperesti. The last 56 km of the Jijia river, which is parallel to the Prut, has been cut-off (it is now known as the Old Jijia). The Old Jijia can be supplied with water from the Jijia by the hydrotechnical knot at Chiperesti when needed. Otherwise, the Old Jijia is only supplied from its own river basin by four small tributaries with intermittent flow. The Ciobarciu Wetland was created in October 2006 after first flooding of this area.

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Catchment and subcatchment

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Catchment

River basin district	Danube
River basin	Prut Barlad

Subcatchment

River name	Prut
Area category	Less than 10 km²
Area (km2)
Maximum altitude category	100 - 200 m
Maximum altitude (m)
Dominant geology	Siliceous
Ecoregion	Eastern Plains
Dominant land cover
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Other case studies in this subcatchment: Ecological Restoration of Mata-Radeanu Complex, Ecological Restoration of Natural Lake Pochina, Ecological Restoration of Vlascuta Lake

Site

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Name	Ciobarciu
WFD water body codes	RORW13.1.15_B5
WFD (national) typology	RO09a
WFD water body name
Pre-project morphology	Embanked
Reference morphology	Sinuous
Desired post project morphology
Heavily modified water body	Yes
National/international site designation	EU - Special Protected Area
Local/regional site designations
Protected species present	No
Invasive species present	No
Species of interest
Dominant hydrology	Artificially regulated
Dominant substrate	Silt
River corridor land use	Intensive agriculture (arable)
Average bankfull channel width category	Less than 2 m
Average bankfull channel width (m)
Average bankfull channel depth category	0.5 - 2 m
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Mean annual discharge (m3/s)
Average channel gradient category
Average channel gradient	0.001
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Project background

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Reach length directly affected (m)	5,500 m5.5 km <br />550,000 cm <br />
Project started	2003/03/01
Works started	2006/06/01
Works completed	2006/10/01
Project completed
Total cost category	100 - 500 k€
Total cost (k€)	388 k€388,000 € <br />
Benefit to cost ratio
Funding sources	The Netherlands Gouvernment program MATRA; Co-financing Ministry of Environment and Water Management

Cost for project phases

Phase	cost category	cost exact (k€)	Lead organisation	Contact forename	Contact surname
Investigation and design			Regional water authority Hunze & Aa’s www.hunzeenaas.nl	Albert	Remmelzwaal
Stakeholder engagement and communication			Prut - Barlad River Basin Authority	Dan	Badarau
Works and works supervision			Prut - Barlad River Basin Authority	Anca	Savin
Post-project management and maintenance
Monitoring			Prut - Barlad River Basin Authority

Reasons for river restoration

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Mitigation of a pressure	Flood risk management
Hydromorphology	Continuity for organisms
Biology
Physico-chemical	Nutrient concentrations
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Measures

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Structural measures
Bank/bed modifications
Floodplain / River corridor	Creation of wetlands/removal of embankments
Planform / Channel pattern	Re-instatement of old course
Other	Restoration flow on old Jijia
Non-structural measures
Management interventions
Social measures (incl. engagement)	Land purchase/Improved public access
Other	Consultation

Monitoring

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Element	When monitored		Type of monitoring		Control site used	Result
	Before measures	After measures	Qualitative	Quantitative
Continuity for organisms						Improvement

Biological quality elements

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quality elements

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Fish: Species composition						Improvement

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Monitoring documents

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Ecological restoration project Ciobarciu - monitoring of birds fauna

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Ciobarciu area - before restoration

Ciobarciu area - during restoration

Ciobarciu area - after restoration (1)

Ciobarciu area - after restoration (2)

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Additional links and references

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Link	Description
http://www.ciobarciu.ro	The website of the project

Supplementary Information

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