Case study:Amerongse Bovenpolder

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Location: 51° 59' 40.39" N, 5° 28' 15.67" E

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Project overview

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Status	In progress
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Themes	Habitat and biodiversity, Social benefits
Country	Netherlands
Main contact forename	Wim
Main contact surname	Zeeman
Main contact user ID
Contact organisation	Dienst Landelijk Gebied
Contact organisation web site	http://www.dienstlandelijkgebied.nl/en
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This is a parent project encompassing the following projects	No

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Catchment

River basin district	Rhine
River basin	Rhine

Subcatchment

River name	Rhine
Area category	1000 - 10000 km²
Area (km2)
Maximum altitude category	1000 - 2000 m
Maximum altitude (m)
Dominant geology	Siliceous
Ecoregion	Central Plains
Dominant land cover	Grassland, Urban
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Other case studies in this subcatchment: Bakenhof Dyke reconstruction, Blauwe Kamer, Room for the River, Ruppoldingen, Upper Main catchment restoration

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Name	Amerongse Bovenpolder
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WFD (national) typology	R7
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Pre-project morphology	Plane bed
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Heavily modified water body	Yes
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Protected species present	No
Invasive species present	No
Species of interest	oyster catchers, Plover (Charadrius sp.), common redshank, Black-tailed Godwit, Common Snipe
Dominant hydrology
Dominant substrate	Clay
River corridor land use	Intensive agriculture (arable)
Average bankfull channel width category	more than 50 m
Average bankfull channel width (m)	170170 m <br />0.17 km <br />17,000 cm <br />
Average bankfull channel depth category	2 - 5 m
Average bankfull channel depth (m)
Mean discharge category	100 - 1000 m³/s
Mean annual discharge (m3/s)	500500 m³/s <br />500,000 l/s <br />
Average channel gradient category	Less than 0.001
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Reach length directly affected (m)	14001,400 m <br />1.4 km <br />140,000 cm <br />
Project started	2001/01/01
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Funding sources	Rijkswaterstaat, Dienst Landelijk Gebied

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Mitigation of a pressure
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The management plan 2011-2021 for the Amerongse Bovenpolder and the Amerongs bos

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