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1. Factsheet:
 
Project code ANZUR_COES08 
 
Author Helena Samper / DiegoGarcia de Jalon
 
Date  2008
 
Country Spain
 
River name Anzur
 
Site name Aldea del Nacimiento, Rute
 
 
River Typology
 
    Latitude 37.398275 N (37º23´53.79´´N)
 
    Longitude -4.384427777 O (4º23´3.94´´O)
 
    Altitude 2 (635 m)
 
    Catchment area ?
 
    Geology ?
 
    River type name  Ríos mineralizados de baja montaña mediterránea
 
    National code  9
 
 
Project name Intervention of environmental improvement of a section Anzur River, in Aldea del Nacimiento, in the town of Rute (Córdoba).
 
Pressures
 
    Class  5 (Morphological alterations)
 
    Subclass  27 (Channelisation/Cross section alteration)
 
    Description  Very narrow river channel.
 
Problem Diagnostic Floods problems for a very narrow channel
 
Project designer MEDIODES, Consultora Ambiental y Paisajismo, S.L. 
 
Project Objective Widden the channel avoiding shocking actions and implementing environmental improvement
 
Measures
 
    Class  2 (Working with Physical Form and Function of the river and floodplain)
 
    Subclass  2.1 (Changes to cross section geometry) y 2.2 (Re-meandering)
 
    Description  Increase of the capacity of water-drainage and recovery of the riparian forest
 
 
Project size 3000 m2
 
Approximate cost ?
 
Synergy Proximity to an urban nucleus
 
 
Status  Finished
 
Period of realization  2008
 
Evaluation ?
 
Implemented by Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir
 
 
 
2. Background information
 
Measures implemented in Anzur River have been:
 
-Forestry jobs. Elimination by selective clearing of brambles (Rubus sp.) and reeds (Arundo donax).
 
-Earth movements (down slopes, lower elevations, widening the channel).
 
-Stabilization of slopes with rows of gabions at the base and buried polypropylene geogrids and coconut placing seed native herbaceous vegetation.
 
-Protection and correcting problems incision in the bed with cylindrical gabions.
 
-Plantations (white poplar (Populus alba), elm (Ulmus minor), fig (Ficus carica), oleanders (Nerium oleander) and Tamarix (Tamarix sp.).
 
-Cuttings and embankments of areas susceptible to erosion Tamarix and oleander species.
 
 
3. Extra information
 
File name or link: mejora ambiental en río rute, córdoba.pdf
 
 
4. Photographs
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Picture of the river before reaching the heart of the Aldea de El Nacimiento.
 
Photos taken before and after the action.
 

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