Case study:The Fortuna Restoration Project

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Location: 45° 11' 28.43" N, 29° 8' 53.17" E

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Project overview

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Status	Complete
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Country	Romania
Main contact forename	Marian
Main contact surname	Tudor
Main contact user ID
Contact organisation	The Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve Authority
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This is a parent project encompassing the following projects	No

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Catchment and subcatchment

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Catchment

River basin district	Danube
River basin

Subcatchment

River name	Sulina Branch
Area category	Less than 10 km²
Area (km2)	2.115 km²211.5 ha <br />
Maximum altitude category	Less than 100 m
Maximum altitude (m)	1.50 m0.0015 km <br />150 cm <br />
Dominant geology	Organic (i.e. Peat), clay
Ecoregion	Pontic Province
Dominant land cover	Grassland, Reed
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Site

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Name	Forestry polder Fortuna
WFD water body codes	RORW14.1_B5
WFD (national) typology	RO15
WFD water body name
Pre-project morphology	Embanked, Forestry area
Reference morphology	Sinuous, Artificial channel
Desired post project morphology
Heavily modified water body
National/international site designation
Local/regional site designations	RAMSAR site, Biosphere Reserves
Protected species present
Invasive species present
Species of interest
Dominant hydrology	Artificially regulated, Inundabila area
Dominant substrate	Clay, Peat
River corridor land use	Grassland, Wetland
Average bankfull channel width category	10 - 50 m
Average bankfull channel width (m)	15.0015 m <br />0.015 km <br />1,500 cm <br />
Average bankfull channel depth category	0.5 - 2 m
Average bankfull channel depth (m)	1.0-1.5 m"-1.5m" is not declared as a valid unit of measurement for this property.
Mean discharge category
Mean annual discharge (m3/s)	69.769.7 m³/s <br />69,700 l/s <br />
Average channel gradient category
Average channel gradient	0.015
Average unit stream power (W/m2)	683.5479683.548 W/m² <br />

Project background

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Reach length directly affected (m)
Project started	1999/12/01
Works started	2004/03/01
Works completed	2004/11/01
Project completed
Total cost category	more than 10000 k€
Total cost (k€)	2093000 k€2,093,000,000 € <br />
Benefit to cost ratio
Funding sources	GEF – BM Programe

Cost for project phases

Phase	cost category	cost exact (k€)	Lead organisation	Contact forename	Contact surname
Investigation and design			The Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve Authority, Tulcea	Marian	Tudor
Stakeholder engagement and communication			The Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve Authority, Tulcea
Works and works supervision			The Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve Authority, Tulcea
Post-project management and maintenance			The Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve Authority, Tulcea
Monitoring			The Danube Delta National Institute for Research and Development, Tulcea (office@indd.tim.ro)	Marian	Tudor

Reasons for river restoration

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Mitigation of a pressure	Flood risk management
Hydromorphology	Quantity & dynamics of flow, Continuity for organisms, Width & depth variation
Biology	Fish, Macrophytes, Phytoplankton
Physico-chemical	Nutrient concentrations
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Measures

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Structural measures
Bank/bed modifications	Create breaches in the bank
Floodplain / River corridor
Planform / Channel pattern	Connecting Fishpond Fortuna to the Danube regime
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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
Quantity & dynamics of flow						Improvement
Continuity of sediment transport

Biological quality elements

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Element	When monitored		Type of monitoring		Control site used	Result
	Before measures	After measures	Qualitative	Quantitative
Fish						Improvement
Invertebrates
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Phytoplankton
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Element	When monitored		Type of monitoring		Control site used	Result
	Before measures	After measures	Qualitative	Quantitative
Nutrient concentrations						Improvement
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Temperature

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Element	When monitored		Type of monitoring		Control site used	Result
	Before measures	After measures	Qualitative	Quantitative
medicinal plants						Improvement

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