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The Coordination Center for Environmental Projects (CCEP) implements two projects focused on the protection of ecosystems and prevention of natural risks. These projects comply with various directives and aim to improve water resources, prevent floods and droughts, enhance forest ecosystems, and create small-scale water retention infrastructure in lowlands and mountain areas. Examples of structures built include sluices, dikes, culverts, and water gates. For more information, contact Monika Ślusarska-Czuber at monika.slusarska@ckps.pl.
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GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE FOR PROTECTION OF ECOSYSTEMS AND NATURAL RISK PREVENTION Brussels, 18 February 2011
Coordination Center for Environmental Projects (CCEP) was establishedin 2008 to act as a Project Implementation Unit (PIU) • Projectsare co-financed by the EU Cohesion Fund (85% of eligibleexpenditure) • Beneficiary: The State Forests – National Forests Holding • FinalBeneficiary: 180 + 55 ForestDistricts
RDLP-The Regional Directorate of the State Forests Area of two Projects
CompliancewithHabitats and BirdsDirective • Facilitation of integrity of Natura 2000 sites and overallcoherence of the Natura 2000 network • Compliancewith Management Plans (whereexisting)
Compliance with the SEA and EIA Directive • Strategical Environmental Assesments for both Projects were prepared • Environmental Impact Assesments for individual structures is conducted before development consent is obtained
Compliance with the Water Framework Directive and Flood Risk Directive • Improving the surface water resources, soil and groundwater • Renaturisation of watercourses and wetlands. • Aligning and slowing water runoff during flood events (flood retention). • Minimizing the risk and preventing droughts
TwoProjectscoordinated by twoteams 1. “Increasing the retentive potential of forest ecosystems and counteracting the causes of flood anddrought on forest ecosystem in lowland” and 2. “Counteracting the effects of rainwater runoff in mountainous areas. Increasing retention andmaintaining streams and associated infrastructure in good condition”
Small scale water retentioninlowlands Small scale water retentioninmountainareas
Small scale water retentioninlowlands • The first Project’s objectives can be considered as: • improvement of the forest habitats humidity by raising the water mirror of the surface wateron the areas in the direct vicinity of the water reservoir or damming facility; • conversion of the rapid outflow of the surface water from the forest area into the slowergroundwateroutflow;
Small scale water retentioninfrastructureinlowlands Achieved by constructing water storage facilities, rehabilitation of existing ameliorationsystems to make them store water efficiently, as well as restoration of moors and wetlands. • sluices • dikes • stopbanks • floodbanks • small water retention reservoirs
Small scale water retentioninmountainareas • The secondProject’s objectives can be considered as: • the creation, reinstatement of small retentionsystems on rivers, rivulets and mountain streams and waterlogged recultivated areas; • biologicalrebuild of watercourses , restoringfunctions of marshy areas, slowing down runoff,counteracting destructive force of spate watersneutralising the effects of surface runoff, creating of small water retention reservoirs
Small scale water retentioninfrastructureinmountainareas • Water storage and run-off preventing infrastructure includes e.g. • culverts • timber crib gabions • riffles • logsurfaces that reduce the surface • runnoff, • water gates in irrigation/drainage ditches.
Examples of structures built in the frame of the Project: Protection against erosion by planting. Before and after (around 10 years in process)
Examples of structures built in the frame of the Project: Culverts Before and after
THANK YOU! Monika Ślusarska-Czuber monika.slusarska@ckps.pl Tel. +48 22 318 70 62
