DRA-MUR-CI Grenzüberschreitende wasserwirtschaftliche Initiative für die Flüsse Drau und Mur - Schwebstoffmonitoring
Abstract
The EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) and the EU Floods Directive (FD) recommend some tasks that are to be realized to manage the catchments of international rivers as a whole. The aims of the project are the coordination and the joint implementation of tasks concerning the water management at the two main rivers, which are shared by the member states of the EU Austria and Slovenia. Through a process of intensive cooperation and exchange of experiences common standards for the management of floods and sediments, which currently do not exist, will be formulated. After the last floods in the years 1965 and 1966 several changes occurred due to the construction of hydro power plants at the Drau river. Many former retention areas between Paternion and Lavamünd are not longer effective and the sediment transport was cut off at the beginning of the chain of hydropower plants (Villach-Rosegg). These aggradations of sediments have to be removed regularly because otherwise the material would endanger the security of the flood protection. To be able to cope with the sediment problem in the future it is necessary to develop a management concept for sediments, which is based upon an extensive monitoring. The monitoring network at the Drau river will make it possible to monitor the input, the accumulation, the (re)mobilisation and the output from Carinthia at Lavamünd as well as the sediment budget (especially at the reservoir Feistritz). This data will be used as an input for the suspended sediment transport model, which will provide a better process understanding and will help to improve the sediment management.
Monitoring of suspended sediments Drau
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Project staff
Helmut Habersack
Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Dr.h.c. Helmut Habersack
helmut.habersack@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-81901, 81911
BOKU Project Leader
01.11.2009 - 17.12.2014
Marlene Haimann
Dipl.-Ing. Marlene Haimann
marlene.haimann@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-81936
Project Staff
01.11.2009 - 17.12.2014
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