Restoration of Danube River (Austria)
The primary elements to decide the ecological environment of a large river and the neighboring floodplains are the scope, the period, and the dynamics of hydrologic connection between the river and the floodplains via the surface layer current and the groundwater. That hydrologic connection has been badly lost in all the large rivers in Europe, due to water channel improvement constructions and to dam constructions. For Danube River which flows along the jurisdiction of Austrian “alluvium area national park,” as the first step of restoration strategy for freely-flowing river, a large-scaled pilot project has been in progress to restore the hydrologic and ecological completeness of the system between the river and its floodplains.
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Date: 2008.03.31 19:17
