This document summarizes a project on natural small water retention measures. The project was led by Tomasz Okruszko and involved partners from Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia. The main objectives were to develop guidelines and case studies on natural small water retention measures for drought mitigation, flood protection, and biodiversity conservation. The guidelines provide definitions and examples of different natural retention techniques. Case studies from the partner countries demonstrate best practices and lessons learned. The project developed a GIS-based methodology to identify suitable areas for natural retention measures. Potential follow-up activities are also discussed.
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Fourth IDMP CEE workshop: Natural Small Water Retention Measures by Anja Potokar
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Natural Small Water
Retention Measures
Anja Potokar
Tomasz Okruszko, Jรกnos Fehรฉr, Jรกnos Tamรกs, Judit Gรกspรกr,
Ignacy Kardel, Waldemar Mioduszewski, Vladimir Mosnรฝ,
Daria Isteniฤ
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โข Activity leader: Tomasz Okruszko
โข Partners:
โข HUNGARY: University of Debrecen and GWP HU
โข POLAND: GWP PL and WULS
โข SLOVAKIA: Hycomp
โข SLOVENIA: Limnos
โข Duration: April 2013 โ March 2015
โข Main challenges:
โข Implementation of N(S)WRM as part of IWRM on the country, CEE and European scale
โข Enrichment of the NWRM approach
โข Objectives:
โข GUIDELINE
โข CASE STUDIES
Basic information
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โข Preparation of the template for gathering experience
โข Practical and legal experience from Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Hungary
โข Workshop to summarize the experiences and make future planning
โข GIS based methodology for the catchment comparison developed in Poland
โข Literature search of effectiveness indices for flood protection, drought and
biodiversity. Fitting the natural retention measures to IRBMP, FPMP and DMP
โข Workshop (or Skype) for choice of the indices which can be used in different
landscape setting and climatic conditions under constrained data access
โข Development of template and best examples from Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and
Hungary
โข Workshop (or Skype) for choice of the best example
โข Extended draft of Guidelines ready
โข Tuning workshop
Implementation process
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โข Main output:
GUIDELINE
NATURAL SMALL WATER RETENTION MEASURES COMBINING DROUGHT
MITIGATION, FLOOD PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION
enriched by
case studies from the countries involved in the activity
Final output
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Final output(s)
1. Introduction
1.1. Preliminary remarks
1.2. Why do we have to increase water retention of river basins?
2. Technical and non-technical measures to increase the water retention
2.1. What is natural small water retention? Definitions
2.2. The retention on agricultural areas
2.3. Landscape retention
2.4. Technical retention
3. How to choose the catchment for the retention measures?
3.1. General remarks
3.2. The methodology of catchment selection
4. How can we evaluate the results in the terms of flood protection, drought mitigation and biodiversity increase?
4.1. Evaluation of natural small water retention measures
4.2. Analytical methods
4.3. The best of natural small water retention measures
5. How can we incorporate the natural water retention measures in the RBMP, FPMP and DMP?
6. Experiences and critical analysis from implemented projects in Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia including
best examples on combined effects and involvement of stakeholders
7. Conclusions โ what is the best action plan
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โข Developed idea of GIS based analysis for identifying the
areas which are most suitable for the NSWRMs
โข The aim of this analysis was to increase flexibility of the
spatial planning (defining of the area, not the certain
location) and evaluation of the investments taking into
account the environmental needs
โข NSWRM activity can be viewed as single project, regional
activity or national program
Added value
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โข Implementation of the idea of NSWRM = โvery difficultโ
โข Small retention development programs must be located in
the sectorial strategies (plans) of the development of
particular areas of the national economy
โข It is advisable to develop the Master Plan showing the main
lines of action
Lessons learned and transferability
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โข Presented outcomes at:
โข EUROPE INBO 2014 on the implementation of the Water Framework Directive,
โข European River Restoration Conference - ERRC 2014,
โข Greener Agriculture for a Bluer Baltic Sea Conference - GABBS 2014.
โข There are following activities which may be developed in potential follow-up
project:
โข Technical guidelines on the N(s)WRM where different measures would get the technical
and ecological background and โhow to do?โ questions would be answered.
โข The GIS based analytical tool could be developed toward DSS for the planners.
โข Demonstration sites (existing or on-going projects) in the CEE could be developed by
adding the hydrological end ecological monitoring and putting them โon-lineโ for the
global audience.
โข Analytical study on key quantitative indices for checking the effectiveness of combined
N(s)WRM in RBM planning.
Follow up
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Thank you!