Reconnect backwaters and wetlands

Reconnect backwaters and wetlands

Reconnect backwaters and wetlands08. Floodplains/off-channel/lateral connectivity habitats improvement

General description

Reconnect backwaters (oxbows, side channels) and wetlands refers to measure aiming to restore lateral connectivity between the main river channel and its floodplain. [1]

Expected effect of measure on (including literature citations):

• HYMO (general and specified per HYMO element)
• physico � chemical parameters
• Biota (general and specified per Biological quality elements)

Pressures that can be addressed by this measure

• Embankments, levees or dikes
• Alteration of instream habitat

Case studies where this measure has been applied

• Gameren
• Regelsbrunner Aue
• Renaturierung Untere Havel
• Vén Duna - side arm reopening
• Regge Velderberg
• Nansa River. Morphological and functional restoration of the Nansa River at Muñorrodero
• Opijnen - Side Channel
• Vreugderijkerwaard - Side channel
• Klebach - Side channel
• Popina
• Uilenkamp - Meander reconnection
• River Wensum Rehabilitation Project - Billingford
• Warta Middle River Valley
• River Skerne EU-LIFE project
• Beneden-Leeuwen - Side channel
• Stream valleys in the Arnsberger forest (LIFE project)
• Drava - Kleblach
• Segre - Improvement of aquatic habitat of Segre River at Alòs de Balaguer
• Haselünne
• Bakenhof - Dyke relocation
• Enns - Aich
• River Rhine - IJsseluiterwaarden Olst
• Rhine - Nebenrinne Bislich-Vahnum (LIFE08 NAT/D/000007)
• Rhine - Ontpoldering Noordwaard
• Donau - Rührsdorf-Rossatz (LIFE03 NAT/A/000009)
• Donau - Aggsbach (LIFE03 NAT/A/000009)
• Rhine - Emmericher Ward (LIFE10 NAT/DE/000010)
• Lower Traun
• Lippeaue Klostermersch