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A collection of River hydromorphology

restoration

examples

in France

Josée PeressBucarestNovember 12-15 2014

josee.peress@onema.frEURO INBO conference

WFD application in France

525 000 km of river stretches

(> 1 km)More than

11 000 surface water bodies

12 River Basin districts in France:12 RBMP

The main public institutional bodies for water public policy in France + overseas territories:

-The Ministry of Ecology (MEDDE)

- Water Agencies in France (6)

- ONEMA

WFD application in France

50 % WBs

affected

by hydromorphological

pressures

17 % of budget of 2010-15 programs of measures

BottleneckBottleneck: : implementationimplementation

of river of river restorationrestoration projectsprojects

River River restorationrestoration

needneed

to to bebe

implementedimplemented

by local by local projectproject

holdersholders

and and needneed

the support of local peoplethe support of local people

How river restoration

measures

are implemented?

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((««

SAGESAGE

»») and local POM () and local POM (««

contrat de contrat de milieumilieu

»») ) atat

catchmentcatchment

levellevel

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betweenbetween

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ownersowners……

definedefine

whatwhat river river restorationrestoration

projectsprojects

cancan

bebe

implementedimplemented..

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«

SAGE

»

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measures

are implemented?

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to to involveinvolve

more local more local projectproject

holdersholders

and and getget support support fromfrom

local local communitycommunity

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to show the to show the benefitsbenefits

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theirtheir

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the information exchange the information exchange

TYPE OF HYDROMORPHOLOGICAL RESTORATION Rhin Rhone Adour Loire Seine ArtoisRIVER GRAVEL INPUT 1 1 1 1 4REMEANDERING 1 8 2 1 12PUTTING THE WATERCOURSE IN ITS ORIGINAL BED 1 2 3 6RECONNECTION OF SIDE ARMS OR ANCIENT MEAND 1 1 1 3PARTIAL OR TOTAL WEIR/DAM REMOVAL 4 3 7 13 7 5 39POND REMOVAL OR DERIVATION OF WATERCOURS 3 1 2 2 8REOPPENING OF CULVERTED RIVER 1 1 2 4MODIFICATION OF RIVER BED'S GEOMETRY 1 3 1 5RIVER BANK REMOVAL 1 1 1 3

PRESERVATION 1 1 1 3TOTAL 13 21 12 19 16 6 87

Collection of river hydromorphologyrestoration

projects:

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for water sport and for water sport and fishfish passage: Corrpassage: Corrèèze riverze river

© Onema © Onema

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of of sedimentsediment

transport transport and and financiafinancial

savingssavings: : VicoinVicoin

riverriver

© Mairie St Berthevin © Fédération de pêche

The full document «

recueil d’expérience sur l’hydromorphologie

»

is

available

on www.onema.frin the Publication

section

orwww.onema.fr/Hydromorphologie,510

The collection can

be

found

The collection can be found:in the English pages :

in Resources/Thematic issues section

in RiverWIKI

ECRR site

THANK YOU FOR YOUR

ATTENTION

Phot

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. Ric

hard

josee.peress@onema.fr

http://www.onema.fr/Hydromorphologie,510

HydromorphologyHydromorphology

restorationrestoration

and and flood flood riskrisk

reductionreduction: Fontenelle river: Fontenelle river

© Mairie St Berthevin © Fédération de pêche