Case study:PROGETTO WETLAND - Volturno

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Location: 41° 29' 24.18" N, 14° 6' 46.96" E

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Project overview

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Status	Complete
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Country	italy
Main contact forename	Alfonso
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Contact organisation	Caserta County- Environment service
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This is a parent project encompassing the following projects	No

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Catchment

River basin district	Appennino meridionale
River basin	Fiume Volturno

Subcatchment

River name	Volturno
Area category	100 - 1000 km²
Area (km2)	791 km²79,100 ha <br />
Maximum altitude category	1000 - 2000 m
Maximum altitude (m)
Dominant geology	Calcareous, Alluvional
Ecoregion	Italy and Corsica
Dominant land cover	Plantation forestry
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Name	Wetland area “Le Mortine”
WFD water body codes
WFD (national) typology	18Ss03N_Tr_AP1_HMWB
WFD water body name
Pre-project morphology	Sinuous
Reference morphology	Sinuous
Desired post project morphology
Heavily modified water body	true
National/international site designation	EU - Special Protected Area
Local/regional site designations	The area is applying for RAMSAR
Protected species present
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Dominant hydrology	Quick run-off
Dominant substrate	Cobble
River corridor land use	Plantation forestry
Average bankfull channel width category	10 - 50 m
Average bankfull channel width (m)
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Average bankfull channel depth (m)
Mean discharge category
Mean annual discharge (m3/s)	335335 m³/s <br />335,000 l/s <br />
Average channel gradient category
Average channel gradient	0.2
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Project background

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Reach length directly affected (m)	750 m0.75 km <br />75,000 cm <br />
Project started	2003/08/01
Works started	2006/03/01
Works completed	2006/01/01
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Total cost category	500 - 1000 k€
Total cost (k€)	750 k€750,000 € <br />
Benefit to cost ratio
Funding sources	Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Environment – Caserta County

Cost for project phases

Phase	cost category	cost exact (k€)	Lead organisation	Contact forename	Contact surname
Investigation and design	10 - 50 k€	1853 k€1,853,000 € <br />	Caserta County	Alfonso	Pirone
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Works and works supervision	100 - 500 k€	450 k€450,000 € <br />	Caserta County	Alfonso	Pirone
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Reasons for river restoration

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Mitigation of a pressure	Riparian development, Flood defence, Pollution incident
Hydromorphology	Connection to groundwaters
Biology
Physico-chemical	Nutrient concentrations, Specific synthetic pollutants
Other reasons for the project	Recreation

Measures

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Structural measures
Bank/bed modifications	Reshapingl of embankment-, creation of a new floodplain parallel to the river; embankement renaturalization
Floodplain / River corridor	Excavation for floodplain creation
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Other	Phitodepuration buffer zone creation
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Social measures (incl. engagement)	Increasing accessibility
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