Case study:Ecological Restoration of Mata-Radeanu Complex

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Location: 46° 5' 26.55" N, 28° 5' 51.89" E

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Project overview

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Status	Complete
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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, Romania; Romanian Ornithological Society, Romania; Galaţi Forestry District, Romania
This is a parent project encompassing the following projects	Ecological Restoration of Mata-Radeanu Complex

Mata-Radeanu Lake - present situation

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The Lower Prut Floodplain Natural Park is the entrance of the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve. It lies on the flyway route of hundreds of migratory birds. The ecological importance of the park has been recognised at national as well as international levels.The project objective is 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. A main aim is to resolve the environmental problems caused by human activities such as agriculture, pasturage, fishery and tourism in and around the Park. To deal with the degradation of hydrological structures, the project also aims to re-establish the ecological balance of the lakes, including improvement of the water level and its maintenance. The results of the project are linked by the designation of Mata – Radeanu Complex as Special Protected Area NATURA 2000 within The Lower Prut Floodplain Natural Park. Through the ecological restoration works at Mata – Radeanu Complex, the water level is maintained so the habitats are protected as in drought period so in the floods ones.

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Catchment

River basin district	Danube
River basin	Prut Barlad

Subcatchment

River name	Prut
Area category	Less than 10 km²
Area (km2)
Maximum altitude category	100 - 200 m
Maximum altitude (m)
Dominant geology	Siliceous
Ecoregion	Eastern Plains
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Other case studies in this subcatchment: Ecological Restoration of Natural Lake Pochina, Ecological Restoration of Vlascuta Lake, The Ciobarciu Wetland Project

Site

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Name	Mata – Radeanu Complex
WFD water body codes	ROLW13.1_B5.2
WFD (national) typology	ROLA03a
WFD water body name
Pre-project morphology	Side ponds
Reference morphology	Embanked, Separation dike
Desired post project morphology
Heavily modified water body	true
National/international site designation	EU - Special Protected Area
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Protected species present
Invasive species present
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Dominant substrate	Silt, Sedimentary rocks (mixture of sand and mud of fluviatile origin).
River corridor land use	Woodland
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Project background

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Project started	2005/11/01
Works started	2009/09/01
Works completed	2010/05/01
Project completed
Total cost category	50 - 100 k€
Total cost (k€)	87 k€87,000 € <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	10 - 50 k€	13 k€13,000 € <br />	Regional Agenty for Environmental Protection Galati (REPA Galati)	Fica	Boldea
Stakeholder engagement and communication			Regional Agenty for Environmental Protection Galati (RAEP Galati)	Fica	Boldea
Works and works supervision	Less than 1 k€	0.75 k€750 € <br />
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Reasons for river restoration

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Mitigation of a pressure	Flood risk management
Hydromorphology	Quantity & dynamics of flow
Biology
Physico-chemical	Oxygen balance
Other reasons for the project	Flood defence

Measures

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Other	Restoration work for dikes
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Other	Information provision

Monitoring

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Mata-Radeanu area during the restoration works (1)

Mata-Radeanu area during the restoration works (2)

Mata-Radeanu lake - after restoration

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Additional links and references

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Link	Description
http://www.wise-rtd.info	The web-site of 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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