Case study:Environment-friendly Reduction of Flood Risk in the Multi-thread Reach of the Czarny Dunajec River

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Location: 49° 26' 9.82" N, 19° 51' 31.35" E

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Project overview

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Status	Complete
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Themes	Flood risk management, Hydromorphology
Country	Poland
Main contact forename	poczta@krakow.rzgw.gov.pl
Main contact surname	poczta@krakow.rzgw.gov.pl
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Contact organisation	Regional Water Management Board in Kraków
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This is a parent project encompassing the following projects	No

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The Czarny Dunajec River in the Vistula River basin in southern of Poland was restored as the aim of reducing the erosional threat to a nearby road. Initial plan was to reduce the flood risk in the reach through river channelization, rejected and replaced by the proposal to re-activate the flow in side channels and stimulate a natural cut-off of the main channel bend. The object was to increase number of low-flow channels and habitat variability in the reach and to open inlets to side channels and directing the flow to them by deflectors made of gravel. Work was done in summer 2011.

After restoration storage of wood debris in the unmanaged, multi-thread river reach, increased and the risk of channel plugging by the debris in downstream, urbanised valley sections was reduced.

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Catchment

River basin district	Northern foreland of the Tatra Mountains
River basin	the Vistula River basin

Subcatchment

River name	The Czarny Dunajec River
Area category	100 - 1000 km²
Area (km2)	160160 km² <br />16,000 ha <br />
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Dominant geology	siliceous (granitsiliceous (granite, gneiss and quartzite) and calcareous (limestone and dolomite) in the high-mountain part of the basin, siliceous (sandstone and shale flysch) in the lower part
Ecoregion	Carpathians
Dominant land cover	forest 50%, extensive agriculture 30%, grassland 20%
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WFD water body name	Czarny Dunajec River
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Heavily modified water body	No
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Protected species present	No
Invasive species present	No
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Dominant substrate	Cobble to pebble
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Average bankfull channel width category	more than 50 m
Average bankfull channel width (m)	8080 m <br />0.08 km <br />8,000 cm <br />
Average bankfull channel depth category	0.5 - 2 m
Average bankfull channel depth (m)	1.21.2 m <br />0.0012 km <br />120 cm <br />
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Project background

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Project started	04/2011
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Project completed	2011/12/01
Total cost category	1 - 10 k€
Total cost (k€)	99 k€ <br />9,000 € <br />
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Funding sources	funds of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration of Poland

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Mitigation of a pressure	Flood risk management
Hydromorphology	Quantity & dynamics of flow, Structure & condition of riparian/lake shore zones
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Bank/bed modifications	Opening inlets to side channels, directing the flow by deflectors made of gravel
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