GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE

FOR PROTECTION OF ECOSYSTEMS AND NATURAL

RISK PREVENTIONBrussels, 18 February 2011

Coordination Center for Environmental Projects (CCEP) was established in 2008 to act as a Project Implementation Unit (PIU)Projects are co-financed by the EU Cohesion Fund (85% of eligible expenditure)

Beneficiary: The State Forests – National Forests HoldingFinal Beneficiary: 180 + 55 Forest Districts

RDLP-The Regional Directorate of the State Forests

Area of two Projects

Compliance with Habitats and Birds Directive

Facilitation of integrity of Natura 2000 sites and overall coherence of the Natura 2000 network

Compliance with Management Plans (where existing)

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

Improving the surface water resources, soil and groundwaterRenaturisation of watercourses and wetlands.Aligning and slowing water runoff during flood events (flood retention).Minimizing the risk and preventing droughts

Compliance with the Water Framework Directive and Flood Risk Directive

Two Projects coordinated by two teams

1. “Increasing the retentive potential of forest ecosystems and counteracting the causes of flood and drought on forest ecosystem in lowland”

and

2. “Counteracting the effects of rainwater runoff in mountainous areas. Increasing retention and maintaining streams and associated infrastructure in good condition”

Small scale water retention in lowlands

Small scale water retention in mountain areas

Est.Capital Investment: ca. 50 million EUR (ca. 34,2 co financed by CF)

Number of structures: over 3000

Water Storage Capacity: over 31 million m3 (including storage of groundwater)

Est.Capital Investment: ca. 43 million EUR (ca. 30 co financed by CF)

Number of structures: over 3500

Water Storage Capacity: over 1,2 million m3 without storage of groundwater

The first Project’s objectives can be considered as:

improvement of the forest habitats humidity by raising the water mirror of the surface water on 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 slower groundwater outflow;

Small scale water retention in lowlands

Small scale water retention infrastructure in lowlands

• sluices • dikes • stopbanks • floodbanks• small water retention reservoirs

Achieved by constructing water storage facilities, rehabilitation of existing amelioration systems to make them store water efficiently, as well as restoration of moors and wetlands.

Examples of structures built in the frame of the Project:

2.

Examples of structures built in the frame of the Project:

Small scale water retention in mountain areas

The second Project’s objectives can be considered as:

the creation, reinstatement of small retention systems on rivers, rivulets and mountain streams and waterlogged recultivated areas;

biological rebuild of watercourses , restoring functions of marshy areas, slowing down runoff, counteracting destructive force of spate waters neutralising the effects of surface runoff, creating of small water retention reservoirs

Small scale water retention infrastructure in mountain areas

Water storage and run-off preventing infrastructure includes e.g.

• culverts• timber crib gabions • riffles• log surfaces that reduce the surface runnoff, •water gates in irrigation/drainage ditches.

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

Examples of structures built in the frame of the Project:

THANK YOU!

Monika Ślusarska-Czubermonika.slusarska@ckps.pl

Tel. +48 22 318 70 62