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TIDE | EMECS 9 Baltimore USA August 2011
Management plans for European
estuaries for restoring and protecting
their ecological functions
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INTRODUCTION
The TIDE Project
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The Channel and the North Sea
North Sea
Channel
Scheldt | NL,BE
Weser | DE
Elbe | DEHumber | GB
EUROPE
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TIDE Partners
Institute of Estuarine & Coastal Studies, Hull
Environment Agency
Elbe | DE
Weser | DE
Scheldt | NL,BE
Humber | GB
Rijkswaterstaat
Flemish Authorities, Department of Mobility and Public Works
Antwerp Port Authority
University of Antwerp
Hamburg Port Authority (Lead Partner)
Lower Saxony Water Management, Coastal Defence and Nature Conservation Agency
Lower Saxony Water Management, Coastal Defence and Nature Conservation Agency
Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
University of Bremen
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To turn integrated management and
planning into a reality in these four
estuaries
= working with nature
TIDE Objective
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TIDE Financing
• 3.7 m EUR, supported by 50% by ERDF financed INTERREG IV B North Sea
Programme
• Implemented between
January 2010 and
December 2012
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Transnational Cooperation
• TIDE brings together partners
from ports, environmental
organizations, local
government and researchers
• Estuaries work with input from
Regional Working Groups
(experts representing various
stakeholders)
• Transnational working groups
are set up for each study topic
within TIDE
• Advice is sought from the
transnational Project Advisory
Board
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PRESENTATION OF THE FOUR
EUROPEAN ESTUARIES
• Elbe
• Weser
• Scheldt
• Humber
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Concept for a sustainabledevelopmentof the Tidal Elbe River as an arteryof the metropolitan region Hamburgand beyond
Dr.-Ing. Hans Peter Dücker Dr.-Ing. Hans-Heinrich WitteDipl.-Ing. Heinz Glindemann
Hamburg
The Elbe
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From a « natural » to
a shipping estuary
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Development of
the mean high
water and mean
low water as
annual values
and 19-year-
average
values at the tide
gauge St. Pauli
in comparison to
the
anthropogenic
measures and
the development
of the water
surface areas in
the port of
Hamburg
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Development of the
dredging amounts in
the Tidal Elbe River
area of Hamburg
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River engineering measures
as milestones for a future
action plan for the Tidal Elbe
RiverThe sediment management concept
therefore intends to relocate fresh, noncontaminated sediments in areas where there is less possibility for them to return to the place where they were dredged.
Sediment management concept
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The Weser
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Restoration of riverbanks
• 13 hectare area in
lower Weser
presently
protected from
flooding by
summer dike
• Partial opening of
dam, stopping
agricultural use
and reshaping the
terrain to allow
development of
natural tidal
floodplain habitats
Pilot Projects in the Weser
Measures to revitalise aquatic
and semi-aquatic ecotops
around former branches of
Weser
• Assessment of different options
• Selection of best possible
approach (hydrological and
ecological)
Southern part of the anabranch „Rechter Nebenarm“ during flood
and ebb tide (Credit: KÜFOG 2010)
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Identification of areas
suitable for the
reestablishment of hard
substrate habitats based on:
- Historical location of habitats
- Current regime
- Stability of area
- Sediment properties
- Potential for colonization
- Fishery practices
Restoration in the Weser
Recreating hard substrate underwater habitats in
the Outer Weser
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The Scheldt
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THE SCHELDT
21.863 km²
10.431.016 inhabitants
(477 inh/km²)
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Increasing risks of
inundation
Profile through the valley
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Scheldt (Belgium)
Area and % intertidal
area
After P. Meire, 2008
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After P. Meire, 2008
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Depolderisation
Tide level regulation
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The Humber
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Source: Environment Agency
Humber Estuary, UK – flood risk
relative SLR = SLR + isostatic rebound
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Photos: Environment Agency ‘Win-win-win situation’
Public Safety - Economy - Environment
75ha of wetland @€10.6M
Habitat Creation
Restoration / set-back / managed realignment / depolderisation
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Habitat Restoration - Managed Realignment
Humber Estuary - Chowder Ness, June 2006
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THE « TIDE APPROACH »
Challenges and perspectives
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TIDE Approach
• Account for ecological,
economic and societal needs
• Interlink multiple processes,
efforts and investments already
taking place
• Use knowledge and solutions
generated in previous projects
(HARBASINS, SedNet,
New!Delta)
• Link to existing management
plans and EU Directives
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Similar Challenges:
Sediments
• Increasing sediment transport,
requiring more maintenance
dredging and improved sediment
management
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Comparison of Sediment
Dredging and Relocation
StrategiesBringing a central challenge
of all four estuaries – the
sediment dredging and
relocation strategies – into
joint focus:
• Collection of data regarding
traffic areas, maintenance,
type of dredging, disposal
sites, alternative utilization,
etc.
• Estuary internal evaluations
and recommendations
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Similar Challenges:
Ecosystem Functions
• Endangered estuarine ecosystem
functions: flood regulation, coastal
protection, water purification, plant
and animal habitats
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Similar Challenges:
Frame Conditions
• Increasingly challenging legal
and global economic framework
– EU Directives (Birds and Habitat, Water
Framework)
– Economic prosperity and big port
development
• Climate change
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TIDE Focus Areas
ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION
• Zonation schemes
• Ecosystem Services in the context of TIDE estuaries
• Historical development of estuaries
• Interestuarine comparison: hydrogeomorphological functions, oxygen and water quality
• Carrying capacity and management for habitats and birds
ESTUARY GOVERNANCE
• Inventory of governance
• Inventory of uses / conflict matrix
• Communication schemes
PRACTICAL MEASURES
• Analysis of human interventions
• Comparison of sediment dredging and relocation strategies
• Dealing with uncertainties in environmental assessments studies (EAS)
• Estuary specific pilot initiatives
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Learning from the others‘ experiences and
drawing useful knowledge for future planning
and implementation processes
• Identification and selection of examples from
each estuary
• Collection of detailed information on basis of
jointly agreed criteria (measure targets,
monitoring, effectiveness, maintenance efforts,
zonation, costs, legislative assignment, public
acceptance, conflicts and synergies, etc)
• Comparative analysis and recommendations
• Development of an online database for public
search, making available extracts of the
information collected
Analysis of
Human Interventions