Case study:Beekherstel Buurserbeek

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Location: 52° 8' 10.28" N, 6° 42' 34.15" E
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Project overview

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Status Complete
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Themes Environmental flows and water resources, Flood risk management, Habitat and biodiversity, Monitoring
Country Netherlands
Main contact forename John
Main contact surname Lenssen
Main contact user ID
Contact organisation Waterschap Rijn en Ijssel
Contact organisation web site http://www.wrij.nl/
Partner organisations STOWA
Parent multi-site project

Building with Nature measures in streams

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Buurserbeek

Project summary

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The Buurserbeek is now a slow-flowing, strongly normalized stream. It is partially located in an agricultural area, but most of the stream flows through woods are natural areas (e.g. Buurserzand and the woods east of Haaksbergen) and/or has woody vegetation on its banks. A 4 meter wide maintenance path runs parallel to most of the stream and the entire stream runs between embankments or high grounds. Upstream of the Twenteroute, the stream carries water most of the year and in most places, the flow velocity is sufficient to support flow-loving fish. Downstream of the Twenteroute, the discharge mostly stops in summer, causing the stream to become stagnant. There is intensive maintenance in the reaches downstream of Braambrug. The Buurserbeek does not yet meet its ecological targets. The stream is too deep and has insufficient variation in structure. Nutrient levels remain to high in the Buurserbeek as well. This is mostly caused by upstream pollution in Germany.

The stream can meander freely within its embankments. The stream is shallow and wide and features both sand bars and stream pits, as well as dead wood and a local lush aquatic vegetation. Most of the stream corridor (80%) is wooded. The Buurserbeek is completely accessible to fish.

Water authority Rijn en IJssel introduced tree stems into the stream to replace the stone cascades that used to be there. In another stretch of the stream, a maintenance path was removed to make the stream wider and shallower.

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The results of dead wood introduction are not yet known. It is clear, though, that they cannot function as cascades. The combined effect of the two measures described above is a greater structure variation and a faster base flow.

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Catchment and subcatchment

Catchment

River basin district Rijn
River basin Rijndelta

Subcatchment

River name Schipbeek
Area category 100 - 1000 km²
Area (km2)
Maximum altitude category Less than 100 m
Maximum altitude (m) 2323 m <br />0.023 km <br />2,300 cm <br />
Dominant geology Siliceous
Ecoregion Central Plains
Dominant land cover Intensive agriculture (arable), Plantation forestry, Grassland
Waterbody ID NL07_0028



Other case studies in this subcatchment: Beekherstel Zuidelijk Afwateringskanaal, Traditioneel Beekherstel Koffiegoot


Site

Name Buurserbeek
WFD water body codes NL07_0029
WFD (national) typology R5
WFD water body name
Pre-project morphology Sterk veranderend
Reference morphology
Desired post project morphology
Heavily modified water body Yes
National/international site designation
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Protected species present No
Invasive species present No
Species of interest
Dominant hydrology Artificially regulated
Dominant substrate Sand, Musselkalk, dekzand/keileem
River corridor land use Intensive agriculture (arable), Plantation forestry
Average bankfull channel width category 5 - 10 m
Average bankfull channel width (m) 66 m <br />0.006 km <br />600 cm <br />
Average bankfull channel depth category 0.5 - 2 m
Average bankfull channel depth (m) 0.80.8 m <br />8.0e-4 km <br />80 cm <br />
Mean discharge category 1 - 10 m³/s
Mean annual discharge (m3/s) 1.411.41 m³/s <br />1,410 l/s <br />
Average channel gradient category Less than 0.001
Average channel gradient 0.00074
Average unit stream power (W/m2) 8.27 * 10^-4 "*10^-4" is not declared as a valid unit of measurement for this property.


Project background

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Project started 2015
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Works completed 2015/12/31
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Reasons for river restoration

Mitigation of a pressure Barriers to fish migration
Hydromorphology Flow velocities, Width & depth variation
Biology Fish, Invertebrates
Physico-chemical Temperature, PH, Oxygen balance, Nutrient concentrations
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Measures

Structural measures
Bank/bed modifications Vergraven van de oever
Floodplain / River corridor Dood hout inbreng
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Monitoring

Hydromorphological quality elements

Element When monitored Type of monitoring Control site used Result
Before measures After measures Qualitative Quantitative
Substrate conditions Yes Yes No No No Improvement
Flow velocities Yes Yes No No No Improvement
Width & depth variation Yes Yes No No No Improvement

Biological quality elements

Element When monitored Type of monitoring Control site used Result
Before measures After measures Qualitative Quantitative
Fish Yes Yes No No No Improvement
Invertebrates Yes Yes No No No Improvement

Physico-chemical quality elements

Element When monitored Type of monitoring Control site used Result
Before measures After measures Qualitative Quantitative
Temperature Yes Yes No No No Improvement
PH Yes Yes No No No Improvement
Oxygen balance Yes Yes No No No Improvement
Nutrient concentrations Yes Yes No No No Improvement

Any other monitoring, e.g. social, economic

Element When monitored Type of monitoring Control site used Result
Before measures After measures Qualitative Quantitative
Concentration phosphate, Chloride and Nitrogen Yes Yes No No No Improvement


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