Case study:Ecological Restoration of Vlascuta Lake

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Location: 45° 46' 39.38" N, 28° 8' 50.41" E

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Project overview

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Status	Complete
Project web site	http://www.luncaprut.ro
Themes	Habitat and biodiversity
Country	Romania
Main contact forename	Fica
Main contact surname	Boldea
Main contact user ID
Contact organisation	Prut - Barlad River Basin Authority
Contact organisation web site	http://www.rowater.ro/daprut/default.aspx
Partner organisations	University of Bucharest – Centre for Environmental Research and Impact Studies, University of Bucharest – Centre for Environmental Research and Impact Studies; Romania Romanian Ornithological Society; Galaţi Forestry District
This is a parent project encompassing the following projects	Ecological Restoration of Vlascuta Lake

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The Lower Prut Floodplain Natural Park is the entrance of the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve. It is the nesting site for more than a hundred bird species, and also a resting/wintering place for many of the passing migratory birds. More than 50 of these birds are listed in the EU Birds Directive and in the Bern Convention. The project objective was to improve the conservation status of 13 priority and more than 50 non-priority bird species listed in the Birds Directive and present in the Lower Prut Floodplain Natural Park. The results of the project are linked by the designation of Vlascuta Lake as Special Protected Area NATURA 2000 within The Lower Prut Floodplain Natural Park. Through the ecological restoration works at Vlascuta Lake, the water level is maintained so the habitats are protected as in drought period so in the floods ones.

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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
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Maximum altitude category	100 - 200 m
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Dominant geology	Siliceous
Ecoregion	Eastern Plains
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Other case studies in this subcatchment: Ecological Restoration of Mata-Radeanu Complex, Ecological Restoration of Natural Lake Pochina, The Ciobarciu Wetland Project

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Name	Vlascuta Lake
WFD water body codes	ROLW13.1_B5.2
WFD (national) typology	ROLN01
WFD water body name
Pre-project morphology	Side ponds
Reference morphology	Single channel, Supply channel and discharge channel
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Heavily modified water body
National/international site designation	EU - Special Protected Area
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Dominant substrate	Silt, Sedimentary rocks (mixture of sand and mud of fluviatile origin).
River corridor land use	Wetland
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Project started	2005/11/01
Works started	2009/08/01
Works completed	2009/11/01
Project completed
Total cost category	50 - 100 k€
Total cost (k€)	79 k€79,000 € <br />
Benefit to cost ratio
Funding sources	From LIFE Nature Programm; Co-financig Ministry of Environment and County Council Galati, Regional Agenty for Environmental Protection Galati (RAEP Galati)

Cost for project phases

Phase	cost category	cost exact (k€)	Lead organisation	Contact forename	Contact surname
Investigation and design
Stakeholder engagement and communication			Regional Agenty for Environmental Protection Galati (RAEP Galati)	Fica	Boldea
Works and works supervision	Less than 1 k€	0.664 k€664 € <br />
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Reasons for river restoration

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Mitigation of a pressure
Hydromorphology	Width & depth variation
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Physico-chemical	Oxygen balance
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Measures

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Floodplain / River corridor
Planform / Channel pattern
Other	The rehabilitation of the two channels, witch connect Pochina Lake and Prut River, respectively the water supply channel (362 m) and evacuation channel (235 m) and removal of mud from of about 2000 sqm surface of lake, the worst part of the lake.
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Other	Information provision

Monitoring

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Element	When monitored		Type of monitoring		Control site used	Result
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Width & depth variation						Improvement

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Vlascuta area before works

Vlascuta area before works

Vlascuta area during the works

Vlascuta channel during the works (1)

Vlascuta channel during the works (2)

Vlascuta area after restoration

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Link	Description
http://www.wise-rtd.info	Water Knowledge Portal
http://www.mmediu.ro	Web-site of The Romanian Ministry of Environment and Forests
http://www.ser.org	Web-site of The Society for Ecological Restoration

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