RACIBORZ FLOOD RESERVOIR Public Disclosure Authorized
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Eli JACOBS RP316 ..V_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ olum e 2 RACIBORZ FLOOD RESERVOIR Public Disclosure Authorized J.. Resettlement Action Plan Public Disclosure Authorized Summary Public Disclosure Authorized March 2005 Public Disclosure Authorized JACOBS Document control sheet Form IPl 80/B Client: PCU Project: Odra Flood Mitigation Job No: J24201A Title: Draft Resettlement Action Plan Prepared by Reviewed by Approved by ORIGINAL NAME NAME NAME P Devitt L J S Attewill see list of authors H Fiedler Krukowicz J Loch DATE StS;ATLRE SIINA1URE SlGATUIf REVISION NAME NA. 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This report to include any has been prepared by JacobsGIBB Ud in their professional capacity as Consulting Engineers. The contents of the report do not, in any way, purport should be manner of legal advice or opinion. This report is prepared in accordance with the terms and conditions of JacobsGIBB Ltd s contract with the Client. Regard Party for that had to those ternis and conditions when considenng and/or placing any rehance on this report. Should the Client wish to release this report to a Third partys reliance, JacobsGIBB Ltd mnay,at its discretion, agree to such release provided that. (a) JacobeGIBB Ltd's written agreement is obtained prior to such release, and (b) By release of the report to the Third Party, that Third Party does not acquire any fights, contractual or othervise, whatsoever against JacobsGIBB Ud, and JacobsGIBB Ltd accordngly assume no dubes, liabilifes or obligations to that Third Party, and (c) JacobsGIBB Ltd accepts no responsibility for any loss or damage incurred by the Client or for any conflict of JacobsGIBB Ltds interests arising out of the Clients release of this report to the Third Party. * JACOBS Authors The Report ,,Resettlement Action Plan" for Racib6rz flood protection reservoir project has been prepared by consortium of JacobsGIBB Ltd. and JacobsGIBB Polska. Following authors contributed to RAP: . JacobsGIBB Ltd team: - Laurence Attewill - Paul Devitt - Ros Vincent - Karina Zachodni . JacobsGiBB Polska team: - Jakub Loch - Joanna Tomaszkiewicz - Hanna Fiedler- Krukowicz - Julia Cichor, - Krzysztof Czechowski * property surveyors team: - Ryszard Szymkiewicz - Leszek Krawczyk - Monika Burghart * lawyers team: - Anna Szczurek - Pawet Kamiriski * sociologists team: - Katarzyna Puchalska - Pawet Kuczynski * computer systems and data bases team: - Bartosz Czyzkowski - Aleksandra Paterek - Michat Juda JACOBS Contents 1 General Information about Raciborz Project 1-1 1.1 Background 1-1 1.2 Project description 1-1 1.3 Social Impact 1-1 1.4 Minimising resettlement 1-2 1.5 Present situation 1-2 2 Sociology 2-1 2.1 Data 2-1 2.2 Demography 2-1 2.3 Socio economy 2-1 2.4 Land use 2-2 2.5 Built assets and agriculture 2-2 2.6 People affected and land ownership 2-3 2.7 Public consultations 2-3 2.8 Conclusions 2-4 3 Legal Framework 3-1 3.1 Polish law applicable to resettlement 3-1 3.2 World Bank policies 3-1 3.3 Gaps between local laws and World Bank policies 3-1 3.4 Compensation 3-1 3.5 Compensation entitlements 3-2 4 Implementation 4-1 4.1 House purchase 4-1 4.2 Expropriation 4-1 4.3 Land acquisition 4-1 4.4 Resettlement village 4-2 4.5 RZGW responsibilities 4-2 JACOBS 4.6 Voivodship responsibilities 4-3 4.7 Starosty (Poviat) responsibilities 4-3 4.8 Gmina responsibilities 4-3 4.9 Agriculture Real Property Agency (ARPA) 4-3 4.10 Coordination and management 4-3 5 Resettlement village 5-1 5.1 Introduction 5-1 5.2 Recommended layout 5-1 6 Cost estimates 6-1 6.1 General 6-1 6.2 Summary 6-1 6.3 Cash flow 6-1 6.4 RAP Implementation schedule 6-2 7 Participation and consultation 7-1 7.1 Communication 7-1 7.2 Participation in design of resettlement village 7-1 8 Grievance redress 8-1 8.1 Grievance procedure according to Polish regulations 8-1 8.2 Appeals to international bodies 8-1 9 Monitoring and evaluation 9-1 9.1 Monitoring 9-1 9.2 Methodology 9-1 9.3 Independent evaluation 9-1 JACOBS General Information about Raciborz Project 1.1 Background Large floods on the Odra and its tributaries are frequent: four floods were recorded that of July 1997 being the largest ever in the 19 th century and twelve in the 20'h, recorded. It was caused by extremely heavy rain, with some meteorological stations day period: the total July rainfall was four recording as much as 400mm over a four 2 times that of the long term average. As a result an area of some 750km was inundated in the three Voivodships of Slaskie, Opolskie and Dolnoslaskie damaging 37,000 buildings, 866 bridges and over 2,000 km of roads. The intangible damages comprising the costs of rescue, stress, loss of production etc were also considerable. The existing flood prevention system of the Upper and Middle Odra River was completed in its main outline in the 1930's following the flood of 1903. Subsequently the system, which comprises reservoirs, polders, relief channels and dykes has been extended and modernised. Although the Racib6rz Reservoir was first conceived in the 1gth century the project was not implemented so far. The magnitude of the 1997 flood substantially surpassed the capacity of the flood defence system, resulting in overtopping and breaching of the flood protection dikes. 1.2 Project description 3 The Raciborz Flood Reservoir with a flood storage volume of 185Mm will be created in an area situated on either side of the river between the town of Raciborz and the Czech Republic border. The alignment finally selected, after a technical and economic consideration of alternatives performed within Feasibility Study, is that originally according to the base option. The plan of the reservoir is shown in Figure 1.1 at the end of this section. The reservoir will be formed by an earth embankment with a maximum height of 10.5 m and some 22 km length. The prime role of the project is to reduce the frequency and severity of flooding in the upper Odra. This will be achieved in two ways: i) the reservoir will provide flood storage so that the flow rate downstream of the reservoir will be greatly reduced, so that the effectiveness of the existing flood defence system in containing the flows will be improved. ii) Secondly the reservoir will delay the timing of the flood peak at the confluence of the Nysa Ktodzka with the Odra so that the adverse combination of the two floods that was so damaging in 1997 is very much less likely. 1.3 Social Impact The reservoir will occupy about 2,600 ha of mainly agricultural and residential land, and resettlement of two villages: Ligota Tworkowska and Nieboczowy containing some 240 families will be necessary. The reservoir will remain dry except at peak flood periods, when it would be inundated for periods of a few days to a few weeks. Under these conditions farming, 1-1 I JACOBS but not residential occupation, could continue, with the risk that crops could be lost during inundation. Each of the two villages gives the overall impression of relative prosperity, stability and high standards of maintenance. Some of this is due to renovation work undertaken since the floods of 1997, but much is due to more enduring social influences. Many of the inhabitants have, or did have, jobs in one of the neighbouring towns, or on the coal mines, and also have small farms. The income from these sources has been invested substantially in improvements to the land and buildings as well as in new buildings. The previous survey results show high levels of residential stability, sometimes over several generations. These factors contribute to the reluctance of the residents to leave. 1.4 Minimising resettlement An alternative alignment of the right bank dike was considered during the course of the feasibility study. This alternative alignment, which was based on a proposal made by the Nieboczowy Defence Committee, protected the village from flooding. The alternative alignment was ultimately rejected because: * Sustainability: the additional problems of surface water drainage and the negative impact of the dike on property prices in the village * Concerns of the increased risk to the inhabitants * It gives a considerably lower economic internal rate of return Other alternatives, discussed during the course of the World Bank mission in March, 2004, were studied in outline and were rejected on the grounds of impracticability and because of RZGW's decision to proceed with the original alignment.