Case study:Dam removal at Grönkullen, River Rolfsån

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Location: 57° 40' 21.34" N, 12° 35' 56.72" E

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Project overview

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Status	Complete
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Themes	Fisheries, Habitat and biodiversity, Hydropower
Country	Sweden
Main contact forename	Andreas
Main contact surname	Bäckstrand
Main contact user ID	User:Arolam
Contact organisation	Länsstyrelsen västra Götalands län
Contact organisation web site	http://projektwebbar.lansstyrelsen.se/rolfsan/Sv/folj-atgardsarbetet/Pages/soran.aspx?keyword=gr%C3%B6nkullen
Partner organisations	Municipality of Bollebygds
Parent multi-site project	Case_study:Biologisk återställning i Rolfsåns vattensystem
This is a parent project encompassing the following projects	No

Grönkullen stream (photo. Maria Arola)

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Grönkullen hydro power station is located in one of the upstream tributaries of River Rolfså, River Sörån. Restorations took place after the county administrative board wanted to make migration possible for lake dwelling brown trout in lake Lygnern. Because there is a chemical plant and a railway situated next to the river and there is possible consentrations of the chemical in the river investigations were accomplished to find out weather the dam removal has any affection to the stability conditions. Conclusion was that there would not be any significant affection of the dam removal to the stability or water levels of the river. Investigations were made in 2002-2004 and the municipality of Bollebygds bought the plant 2005 to be able to remove the dam.

Restoration was done in 2005. A new river was rebuilt upstream and downstream of the old dam, altogether along a 200 m strech. A small part of the old dam was saved as a memory. Stones and gravel were added to the river bank. Total cost of the restoration was about 5 million Swedish crones (ca. 500 000 euros).

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Catchment

River basin district	Skagerrak and Kattegat River basin
River basin	Rolfsån River Basin

Subcatchment

River name	River Rolfsån
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Dominant geology	Organic (i.e. Peat)
Ecoregion	Fenno-Scandian Shield
Dominant land cover	Woodland, Intensive agriculture (arable)
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Other case studies in this subcatchment: Apelnäs fishway at River Rolfså, Biologisk återställning i Rolfsåns vattensystem, Bosgården nature-like fishway at River Rolfså, Restorations of River Nolån-Hulta dam removal, ´Restorations of River Nolån-Bypass channel in Hulta Hydro power plant, ´Restorations of River Nolån-Fishway in Forsa hydro power plant, Ålgårda nature-like bypass channel at River Rolfsån

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Name	Grönkullen hydro power station
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WFD water body name	River Sörån
Pre-project morphology	Artificial bed, Artificial channel, Embanked, Over deepened, Over-widened
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Heavily modified water body	Yes
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Protected species present	No
Invasive species present	No
Species of interest	Lake dwelling brown trout
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River corridor land use	Woodland
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Reach length directly affected (m)	200200 m <br />0.2 km <br />20,000 cm <br />
Project started	2002
Works started	2005/08/01
Works completed	2005/10/31
Project completed	2005/10/31
Total cost category	500 - 1000 k€
Total cost (k€)	500500 k€ <br />500,000 € <br />
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The total costs were about 5 million Swedish crones including investigations, purchase of appropriate rights and their implementation, demolition of the dam and river restoration measures.

Reasons for river restoration

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Mitigation of a pressure	Barriers to fish migration, Hydropower
Hydromorphology	Continuity for organisms, Quantity & dynamics of flow
Biology	Fish
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Bank/bed modifications	Barriers removal, Bed-raising
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Downstreams from the dam(photo. Maria Arola)

Part of the old dam (photo. Maria Arola)

Removed dam (photo. Maria Arola)

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