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URBAN STREAM REHABILITATION. CASE STUDIES. Contents:. Approach Case studies Impacts of urban river rehabilitations Planning and implementation process Aesthetic evaluation methods Social appraisal and participation Rehabilitation techniques Summary and conclusions. 1 Approach.
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Contents: • Approach • Case studies • Impacts of urban river rehabilitations • Planning and implementation process • Aesthetic evaluation methods • Social appraisal and participation • Rehabilitation techniques • Summary and conclusions
1 Approach • Survey on urban rehabilitation schemes (Europe, others) • Case study approach- urban setting - rehabilitation (ecological improvement) - scheme completed • Standardised enquiry form • Quantitative and qualitative analysis of each case • Comparison of tools, techniques, procedures and impacts
Selected case studies • Comparison of General Characteristics 2. Case studies -Brief description
Austria: Vienna - Wienfluss 2. Case studies -Brief description
Germany: Munich – Isar 2. Case studies -Brief description
Italy: Florence – Mugnone Brook 2. Case studies -Brief description
Switzerland: Zurich – Brook Concept Albisrieder Dorfbach 2. Case studies -Brief description
Czech Republic: Chrudim – Náhon 2. Case studies -Brief description
Cananda: Toronto – Mud Creek 2. Case studies -Brief description
United States: Wilmington – Christina River 2. Case studies -Brief description
2Case studies -Characterisation 1 Objectives of urban river rehabilitation 2 Objectives of ecological improvement 3 Length of urban river rehabilitation schemes 4 Total costs of urban river rehabilitation schemes 2. Case studies -Characterisation
3. Impacts of river rehabilitation schemes • Ecological impacts • Social impacts • Economic impacts • Impacts on public health and safety 3. Impacts of river rehabilitation schemes
4. Planning and implementation process • Initiation of urban river rehabilitation projects • Site selection • Project management • Almost 90 % public administration initiations • primary initiative usually from citizen groups • 20 % responding to legal demands • Most aim at rehabilitation of certain river section • Selection methods on basin or city scale, determination of potential for rehabilitation • 21% used some kind of site selection method 4. Planning and implementation process
5. Aesthetic Evaluation Aspects of Aesthetic Perception and Recreational Usability • extracted from Part B and Part C of the enquiry, state conditions and implemented measures • quite diverse understanding of what aesthetics for urban rivers is 5. Aesthetic Evaluation
5. Aesthetic Evaluation Aspects of Aesthetic Perception and Recreational Experience Aesthetic Evaluation Methods • expert assessments • surveys 5. Aesthetic Evaluation
6.Social appraisal and Public Involvement • Legal requirements for public participation • Stakeholders and Identification of Stakeholders • Informing stakeholders • Involving Stakeholders • Stewardshop and Advocacy 6.Social appraisal and Public Involvement
legal requirements for public information and involvement have been mentioned for almost half of the projecs • how did project responsibles deal with this legislation? • involvement from public information to comprehensive participation of diverse stakeholder groups 6.Social appraisal and Public Involvement
citzen: residents, property owners • NGOs on national, regional and local level • commercial assosiations (Anacostia River Business Coalition) • Politicians (Isar) • Identification of stakeholders (Kaitzbach, Skerne) 6.Social appraisal and Public Involvement - Stakeholders
increase of social awareness and appraisal • first step to public participation • Guided tours • Information boards onsite • Exhibitions • Installations 6.Social appraisal and Public Involvement – Informing Stakeholders
6.Social appraisal and Public Involvement – Informing Stakeholders
Collection of ideas and site selection • competitions • surveys • workshops • public discussion meetings • on site involvement (Wandse, Toronto) 6.Social appraisal and Public Involvement – Involving Stakeholders
6.Social appraisal and Public Involvement – Involving Stakeholders
active support for river enhancement through stakeholders • Partnerships: brook sponsorships, NGOs, coalitions • continuous activities: newsletter, guided tours, school days, monitoring • single events: inauguration of schemes, river related festivals • information for rivers non-project related 6.Social appraisal and Public Involvement Stewardship and advocacy
6.Social appraisal and Public Involvement Stewardship and advocacy
7. Rehabilitation techniques • Improving Water Quality • Improving Hydrology and Hydrodynamics • Improving Stream Connectivity • Restoration Techniques for Aquatic and Riverine Ecosystems • Techniques Incorporating Features to Improve Public Health and Safety • Measures Practiced Basin Wide 7. Rehabilitation techniques
Groups of individual measures can be found aiming at the same rehabilitation target 7. Rehabilitation techniques – measure groups
Measures: • wet ponds with extended detention • grassy filter strips • constructed wetlands • bioretention • structural enhancement • silt trapping devices 7. Rehabilitation techniques – water quality
measures ‘managing discharge from detention basins in accordance to natural runoff’, or ‘water management in collaboration with power plant’ to ‘master-planning advices for the catchment area’ • one fourth of case studies used stormwater infiltration for detaining peak flow • sediment balance: • sediment traps, such as sediment ponds, • check dams for sediment control • the management of construction sites (temporary runoff diversions and chutes) 7. Rehabilitation techniques – Hydrology and Hydrodynamics