Case study:International recovery of the river Minho: an example of sustainable hydraulic exploitation

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Status	Complete
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Country	Spain
Main contact forename	Maria Luisa
Main contact surname	Prada Hervella
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Contact organisation	Unión Fenosa Generación
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The situation of the Frieira dam is at about 68 Km from the flow into the river Miño in the Atlantic Ocean and constitutes the first transverse obstacle for the movement of the migratory fish. Until the construction of the dam, it was only crossed by a limited number of eels that were crossed by a small scale of poor efficiency. The rest of the migratory species (Atlantic salmon, sea trout or reo, lamprey, alosa and sábalo) saw their reproductive migration water up stopped, being out of their reach the traditional spawn zones. With the execution of this project it is being trying to correct the environment impact produced by the exploitation of the Frieira installations, reinstituting the free circulation of the migratory fish water up the storage dam; In this way, it has been recuperated for these populations courses of the basin that were used for the reproduction and breeding before the dam construction. This project counts with the support of local, regional, national and European institutions. The financing comes from the LIFE initiative and the Government of Galicia. The total budget is 1.278.875€ (LIFE support 291.342€).

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River basin district	C.H.Minho-Sil
River basin	Minho

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River name	Minho
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Maximum altitude category	Less than 100 m
Maximum altitude (m)	60-68 m"-68m" is not declared as a valid unit of measurement for this property.
Dominant geology	Siliceous
Ecoregion	Ibero-Macaronesian
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Name	Escala de peces en la Central Hidoeléctrica de Frieira
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Project started	1999/11/01
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Works completed	2002/06/01
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Total cost category	1000 - 5000 k€
Total cost (k€)	1278 k€1,278,000 € <br />
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Funding sources	LIFE project 291.342€, Galicia Government

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Works and works supervision			Unión Fenosa S.A.
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Planform / Channel pattern	Installing fish scale of more than 250m
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