Preparation of the Drava River Framework Analysis of the International Drava River Corridor DRAFT NATIONAL DRAVA RIVER CORRIDOR ANALYSIS REPORT of AUSTRIA
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Project Acronym: SEE River Work package: WP4 – Application of the SEE River Toolkit on the Drava River Corridor Action: 4.1. Preparation of the Drava River Framework – Analysis of the International Drava River Corridor Preparation of the Drava River Framework Analysis of the International Drava River Corridor DRAFT NATIONAL DRAVA RIVER CORRIDOR ANALYSIS REPORT OF AUSTRIA Regional Government of Carinthia, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Department 8 ‐ Environment, Water and Nature Protection Water Management, [email protected] [email protected]; s.korber@revital‐ib.at [email protected] General information about the preparation of this draft Analysis Reports Along the Drava, especially in the district Spittal a. d. Drau, a number of successful projects have been executed concerning river management (restoration, flood protection, nature conservation, recreation, etc.). Stakeholder involvement was always an important part of these projects. The projects LIFE I (Flood Plain‐Forest Combine of the Upper Drau River Valley) and LIFE II (Life Vein – Upper Drava River) projects are the most known ones; in the following parts of this report particular measures of these LIFE‐projects are described. Our project work always follows the relevant EU directives such as the Water Framework Directive, the Flood Directive, or the Habitat and Birds Directives. The draft results of this Austrian Drava Analysis Report will be discussed at the national stakeholder workshop on the 13th of June 2013 in Sachsenburg (near Spittal a. d. Drau). Received stakeholder comments and information from of the workshop will afterwards be included in the final Analysis Report. As proposed by the Lead Partner, the chapters 9‐11 on “Synergies and conflicts analysis”, “Feasible measures” and Progress Indicators connected to the Drava River Vision objectives will be elaborated and added at a later stage. At the upcoming project meeting on 18‐20 June in Hungary (Harkány) the main parts of the analysis and the methods used will be assessed. Drava River Corridor Analysis Report – AUSTRIA 2 Table of contents: 1. Introduction – Purpose of the Analysis Report ............................................................................... 4 1.1. What this report analyses and what is it used for ................................................................... 6 1.2. Pilot area versus National Report ............................................................................................ 7 2. Resource analysis ............................................................................................................................ 9 2.1. Location information ............................................................................................................... 9 2.2. Nature values ........................................................................................................................ 10 2.3. Water related resources ........................................................................................................ 14 2.4. Cultural values ....................................................................................................................... 25 2.5. Economic resources ............................................................................................................... 31 3. Risk analysis ................................................................................................................................... 33 3.1. Flood risk ............................................................................................................................... 33 3.2. Water quality hazards ........................................................................................................... 44 3.3. Droughts ................................................................................................................................ 46 4. Spatial analysis .............................................................................................................................. 47 5. Institutional Setup Analysis ........................................................................................................... 52 6. Project analysis .............................................................................................................................. 55 7. Stakeholder analysis ...................................................................................................................... 56 7.1. Methodology of stakeholder identification .......................................................................... 56 7.2. Identified stakeholders .......................................................................................................... 57 8. Map of hot spots ........................................................................................................................... 60 9. Synergies and conflict analysis – Elaboration Later ...................................................................... 61 10. Feasible measures – Elaboration later ...................................................................................... 62 10.1. Process oriented measures ............................................................................................... 62 10.2. Project content related measures ..................................................................................... 62 11. Progress indicators and benchmarks – Elaboration later ......................................................... 64 12. Reference documents ............................................................................................................... 65 Drava River Corridor Analysis Report – AUSTRIA 3 1. INTRODUCTION – PURPOSE OF THE ANALYSIS REPORT This report is one of five National Drava River Corridor Analysis Reports (NDRCAR) describing pilot areas selected in each of the five Drava countries Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Hungary and Croatia. The report is based on a detailed analysis of pilot areas selected in each Drava country – in this case this is the Austrian Drava corridor with the pilot area located near Spittal/Carinthia (see location of the black box in the following images). Information and insight gained on the pilot area shall make it possible to extend the experiences onto the whole Drava River Corridor. Spittal In Austria there are eight national planning areas for the management of rivers and catchments. The planning area Drava (orange coloured, source: NGP Austrian River Basin Management Plan) is located in the south of Austria. The entire orange‐shaded area discharges into the Drava. The most important tributaries of the Drava in Austria are: Villgratenbach and Isel rivers in East Tyrol Malta/Lieser and Möll rivers which enter the Drava in the pilot area Gail, Afritzerbach, Vellach, Glan/Gurk, Wölfnitzbach, Feistritz and Lavant rivers which discharge downstream of the pilot area into the Drava. Drava River Corridor Analysis Report – AUSTRIA 4 Spittal The Drava River flows west‐east across the south of Austria, through the Provinces of East Tyrol (part of Tyrol) and Carinthia. The River Drava in Austria has a total length of 258 km which goes from from r‐ km 665 (Italian border) to r‐km 407 (Slovenian border). The maps show the location of the pilot area (black box) with a total length of about 70 km. It is located in the district of Spittal, one of the 10 districts in Carinthia. The map below shows the catchment of the Drava River with the important “sub‐catchments”. The river Isel flows into the Drava River some kilometres upstream from the start of the pilot area, Möll and Lieser rivers discharge in the Drava River within the pilot area, while the river Gail flows into the Drava River in the city Villach, located some kilometres downstream of the pilot area. The Gurk and the Vellach flow into the Drava River downstream of Villach. The Lavant River discharges in the Drava in Lavamünd a few kilometres before the border to Slovenia. Drava River Corridor Analysis Report – AUSTRIA 5 Spittal 1.1. What this report analyses and what is it used for The aim of the Report is to provide a sound basis of information on the resources, risks, opportunities, potential synergies and conflicts among nature values and existing or potential uses of the river corridor. The purpose of the Report is to support the regional or local consultations held on the management and development of the Drava River Corridor (DRC) with the stakeholders. As some of the information this Report is to contain will be available at a later stage of the SEE River project only, first the “baseline” part of the Analysis Report was issued, covering Chapters 1 to 8. This will be extended with further chapters, utilizing the information revealed by the stakeholder consultations and the results of the development of the Drava River Toolkit. This first issue of the Report contains the baseline analysis of the Drava in terms of Resource analysis (Status of the river corridor regarding Nature values, Water related resources including quantity and quality, Cultural values) Risk analysis (Flood risks and status of flood defence, Climate change, droughts, accidental pollution) Spatial analysis (Spatial structure, Identification of the Drava River Corridor) Institutional setup analysis (legal, institutional, organisational setup within the DRC per country) Project analysis (Projects – past, ongoing, planned, foreseen development and conservation projects,