Case study:Boldersbeek
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Project overview
Status | Complete |
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Themes | Environmental flows and water resources, Flood risk management, Habitat and biodiversity, Water quality |
Country | Netherlands |
Main contact forename | John |
Main contact surname | Lenssen |
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Contact organisation | Waterschap Rijn en Ijssel |
Contact organisation web site | http://www.wrij.nl |
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Project summary
The Boldersbeek is a small tributary of the Groenlose Slinge. In 1999, two retention basins were created in this stream's catchment. The stream flows through one of these basins and next to the other basin.
Monitoring surveys and results
The ecology of the main stream has improved, but bank vegetation did not respond as intended. The banks turned out to be too narrow and too steep, leaving very little room for an adapted vegetation to develop. The retention basins are prone to getting filled in with vegetation and sediment. They require a lot of maintenance just to prevent them from turning into carrs (Dutch: elzenbroekbos) through plant succession. This makes the basins less suitable for water retention. However, some of the carrs that have started to grow are in fact desirable and contribute to a more varied landscape.
Lessons learnt
Researchers of Alterra (now Wageningen Environmental Research) state that the basins would not have ondergone such rapid plant succession if they had been made a bit deeper.
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