Case study:Ecological Restoration of Natural Lake Pochina

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Location: 45° 59' 29.63" N, 28° 5' 46.38" E

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Project overview

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Status	Complete
Project web site	http://www.luncaprut.ro
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 Natural Lake Pochina

Lower Prut Natural Park

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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.More than 50 of these birds are listed in the EU Birds Directive and in the Bern Convention.The ecological importance of the park has been recognised at national as well as international levels. The project objective was 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. The first phase of the multi-site project focuses on the establishment of park administrative structures and the preparation of an integrated management plan, to be approved by the local authorities. This plan would guide the conservation activities to be implemented and would consider the protection needs of target habitats and species of the project. A number of actions have been foreseen to address and involve the local community (e.g. dissemination, consultation of every village in the area, and active participation and education with local educational material to be produced). The project was addressed stakeholders in wide variety of ways, including picture books, nature trails, six annual environment days with expeditions into the area, children's exhibitions, and bird watching towers. The ecological restoration works of Pochina Lake assures, by gravitational transfer a sufficient water volum to contribute to the conservation of this special area, designated Special Protected Area (SPA).

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Catchment and subcatchment

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Catchment

River basin district	Danube
River basin	Prut Barlad

Subcatchment

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

Site

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Name	Pochina Lake
WFD water body codes	ROLW13.1_B5.2
WFD (national) typology	ROLN01
WFD water body name
Pre-project morphology	Side ponds
Reference morphology	Single channel, Supply channel and discharge channel wich gravitational transfer a sufficient water volum to contribute to the conservation of this special area
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Heavily modified water body
National/international site designation	EU - Special Protected Area
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Dominant substrate	Silt, Sedimentary rocks (mixture of sand and mud of fluviatile origin).
River corridor land use	Wetland
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Project started	2005/11/01
Works started	2006/05/01
Works completed	2006/06/01
Project completed
Total cost category	10 - 50 k€
Total cost (k€)	31 k€31,000 € <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	Less than 1 k€	0.737 k€737 € <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€	0.368 k€368 € <br />
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Reasons for river restoration

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Mitigation of a pressure
Hydromorphology	Width & depth variation
Biology
Physico-chemical	Oxygen balance
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Measures

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Other	The two channels for Vlăşcuţa Lake (in total length of about 542 m) were reshaped and consolidated, so that they assure the supply and the evacuation from/to lake/river Prut, subject to necessary water level of the lake.
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Other	Information provision

Monitoring

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Element	When monitored		Type of monitoring		Control site used	Result
	Before measures	After measures	Qualitative	Quantitative
Width & depth variation						Improvement

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Image gallery

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Pochina area during restoration

Pochina Lake after restoration

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Recognising the importance of South East European landscapes

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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