ACTION: A.2:

Technical plans for water management and habitat restoration

The aim of the action is the implementation of hatitat restoration with well-established professional skills being in possession of all compulsory authorizations.

Map: Executing the elimination of gutters, planned in the project, it is necessary to have a baseline assessment study, then a detailed Technical plans for water management plan and a habitat restoration plan.

In 2009: After 2 years of supplementations the Environmental Protectorate of the Trans-Tisza Region approved our baseline assessment study which is necessary for restoration. Without this the Technical plans for water management and habitat restoration plan are not authorized to work out. Accordingly, we have planned a half-year delay but it is not going to jeopardize the implementation of our main targets.

In 2010: A company have been officially chosen to elaborate the technical plans for water management and habitat restoration plan. This plan continuously has been changed, modified and coordinated with the constructor of the plan, the council of Balmazújváros, the road management and the conservation authority mainly because of the flooding situation caused by the unusually high precipitation in 2010 (over 1400 mm within one calendar year, three times more than an average year). The plan estimated to be ready by February 2011.

In 2011: The technical plans for water management and habitat restoration was ready by January 2011. We have immediately submitted to the Environmental Protectorate of the Trans-Tisza Region (Tiszántúli Környezetvédelmi, Természetvédelmi és Vízügyi Felügyelőség) for approval and ever since we have been submitting various missing papers. The latest such correspondence was on the 21st of December. The expected final approval of the technical plan is in February 2012. The prescribed (by the approval authority) earliest expected start of the actual field work is 1st of July 2012.

In 2012: The intended target of the action has been 100% achieved by the end of 2012 as the technical plan has been completed and the rehabilitation field works started on the 20th of July, 2012. In the second half of 2012 we had to make a plan for two ground-water measuring (monitoring) points which was completed. This was a mandatory regulation from the TIKÖFE.

2013: The action has already been 100% achieved in 2012 and supplementary provision wasn’t necessary.