Case study:Agreed definition of mobility area for the Adour
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Project overview
Status | Complete |
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Themes | |
Country | France |
Main contact forename | Fréderic |
Main contact surname | Ré |
Main contact user ID | |
Contact organisation | Institution Adour |
Contact organisation web site | |
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Catchment
River basin district | Hautes-Pyrénées et Ger |
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River basin | Adour - Garonne |
Subcatchment
River name | L'Adour |
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Area category | more than 10000 km² |
Area (km2) | 17000 km²1,700,000 ha <br /> |
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Dominant geology | |
Ecoregion | Western Plains |
Dominant land cover | Intensive agriculture |
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Site
Name | Hautes-Pyrénées et Ger |
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WFD water body codes | FRFR327C |
WFD (national) typology | |
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Pre-project morphology | Braided, Entrenched, Embanked |
Reference morphology | Braided |
Desired post project morphology | |
Heavily modified water body | true |
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Protected species present | |
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Dominant hydrology | |
Dominant substrate | Gravel |
River corridor land use | Intensive agriculture, Urban |
Average bankfull channel width category | 10 - 50 m |
Average bankfull channel width (m) | 2020 m <br />0.02 km <br />2,000 cm <br /> |
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Mean discharge category | |
Mean annual discharge (m3/s) | 3535 m³/s <br />35,000 l/s <br /> |
Average channel gradient category | |
Average channel gradient | 0.002 |
Average unit stream power (W/m2) | 34.324534.325 W/m² <br /> |
Project background
Reach length directly affected (m) | 44000 m44 km <br />4,400,000 cm <br /> |
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Project started | 2005/01/01 |
Works started | 2008/01/01 |
Works completed | 2018/01/01 |
Project completed | |
Total cost category | 1000 - 5000 k€ |
Total cost (k€) | 3733 k€3,733,000 € <br /> |
Benefit to cost ratio | |
Funding sources | Water Agency, Institution Adour, Regional Council, French State |
Cost for project phases
Phase | cost category | cost exact (k€) | Lead organisation | Contact forename | Contact surname |
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Investigation and design | 100 - 500 k€ | 130 k€130,000 € <br /> | |||
Stakeholder engagement and communication | 50 - 100 k€ | 55 k€55,000 € <br /> | |||
Works and works supervision | 1000 - 5000 k€ | 2580 k€2,580,000 € <br /> | Water Agency | ||
Post-project management and maintenance | |||||
Monitoring | 100 - 500 k€ | 130 k€130,000 € <br /> |
Reasons for river restoration
Measures
Structural measures
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Bank/bed modifications | Management of alluvial structures |
Floodplain / River corridor | Definition of the corridor, Restoration of riparian forest |
Planform / Channel pattern | Re-opening of branch, Limiting the establishment of new risk areas, Modifying or moving existing sites at risk |
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Management interventions | |
Social measures (incl. engagement) | |
Other | Consultation |
Monitoring
Hydromorphological quality elements
Element | When monitored | Type of monitoring | Control site used | Result | ||
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Before measures | After measures | Qualitative | Quantitative | |||
Channel pattern/planform | Yes |
Biological quality elements
Element | When monitored | Type of monitoring | Control site used | Result | ||
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Physico-chemical quality elements
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Any other monitoring, e.g. social, economic
Element | When monitored | Type of monitoring | Control site used | Result | ||
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Before measures | After measures | Qualitative | Quantitative |
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