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Participation of Stakeholders in the Kis-Balaton Project
Erzsébet SzékelyAssociation of Civil Organizations of Lake Balaton, Hungary
Photos:Tamás Ábel,Zsuzsanna Horváth-Papp, István Forgács
• Kis-Balaton is located on the Western part of Lake Balaton
• Its area of 14750 acres has an uninterrupted water-wildlife of large dimensions
• Kis-Balaton has been a nature protection area since 1951, now it belongs to Balaton Uplands National Park
• Kis-Balaton has been under the protection of Ramsar Convention since 1979 and it also belongs to the Natura 2000 habitat network
The Kis-Balaton Water Protection System
Historical background:- Constraction of Sió-lock in 1868 then
the complection of the south railway
- Draining and regulation of Kis-Balaton
- Intensive agricultural chemicalisation, increasing urbanization, holiday resort
- Lost its function of protecting the water quality of Lake Balaton
- Undesirable changes of water quality of Lake Balaton (algae bloom, siltation)
- Wetland reconstruction started in 1980: the Kis-Balaton Water Protection System
- Phase I, the Hídvégi-pond was constructed between 1981 and 1985
- Phase II, the constuction of Fenéki-pond was started in 1984 but it hasn’t finished yet
Old map
Photos: Istvan Forgács, Péter Koroknai
The Kis-Balaton Project
The Kis-Balaton Project was established for
realization of Kis-Balaton Water
Protection System Phase II. in 2007.
Objectives:
- Protection of water quality of Lake Balaton
- Protection and increasing the natural and ecological values
- Decreasing of the risk of floods
Participants of Forum:
Members of Pelso 2007 Consortium, Transdanubian District Water Authority, Balaton Uplands National Park, independent experts, engineers, economists, civil organizations, delegates of affected municipalities
Photos: Stella Czibulka Béla Szalánczy,Attila Kovács,
Concrete measure: We discussed and harmonized the different kind of interests and opinions of stakeholders to make the Feasibility Study of Kis-Balaton Water Protection System Phase II. on Forum meetings every third month.
Lesson learned: We could reach better results in the making of Feasibility Study with the involvement of stakeholders into the work.
Recommendation: With the involvement of stakeholders into the work of a project and taking their opinions and interests into consideration you can get better results and prevent latter conflicts.
Thank you for your attention!
Photos: Ádám Fáth, Péter Koroknai, Rudolf Horváth, Ádám Fáth, Tamás Ábel, Béla Szalánczy