Sediment Project partners Contact Management Austria:  University of Natural Resources and Barbara Kéri Life Sciences , Institute of Water Project manager of DanubeSediment Restoration of the Sediment Balance Management, Hydrology and Hydraulic project in the Danube River Engineering University of Technology and Bulgaria:  Executive Agency for Exploration and Economics, Department of Hydraulic and Maintenance of the Danube River Water Resources Engineering  National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology – Bulgarian Academy of Tel: +36 1 463 1709 Sciences E-Mail: [email protected]

Croatia:  Croatian Waters – Legal entity for water For further information on the project, management partnership and the Danube Transnational Programme: :  Bavarian Environment Agency www.interreg-danube.eu/danubesediment  Technical University of Munich, Chair of Hydraulic Research and Water Resources Management

Hungary:  Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Hydraulic and Water Resources Engineering  General Directorate of Water Manage- ment

Romania:  National Administration “Romanian Waters“ Imprint  National Institute of Hydrology and Published by: Bavarian Environment Agency (LfU) Water Management Bürgermeister-Ulrich-Straße 160 86179 Augsburg, Germany www.lfu.bayern.de :  Jaroslav Černi Institute for the Develop- Text/Layout: LfU ment of Water Resources Cartography: LfU, based on EuroGlobalMap, © EuroGeographics. Original data: www.eurogeographics.org.  Ministry of Construction, Transport and Relief: based on GTOPO30, USGS Infrastructure, Directorate for Inland Satellite image: Blue Marble Next Generation, NASA Waterways Cover Photo: Danube River east of Vienna, view from Braunsberg, taken by Philipp Gmeiner, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, IWHW-BOKU, Vienna Slovakia:  Water Research Institute Print: Pauli Offsetdruck e. K. Am Saaleschlößchen 6, 95145 Oberkotzau, Germany Slovenia:  Institute for Water of the Republic of Printed on 100 % recycled paper Slovenia Status: March 2017 Project co-funded by European Union funds (ERDF, IPA) Das Donaueinzugsgebiet

Danube River Basin covered by INTERREG Sediment Management – a Strategic A N Y G E R M Praha Danube Transnational Programme (DTP) b Goal for Transnational Cooperation in M a C Z E C H S D a v a K o N r Kyjiw n in E P U B L I C a a a - R n u tk the Danube Region A a - a l l tm áh U h V K R ü aya c S L O V A K I A A hl Th r I N E r a Isa M Sediments are a natural part of aquatic nn au I Wien on Donau D I systems. Strong alterations of the Danube l en l Münch e ns Budapest r h n c E e za MOLD River have led to significant changes in the L I A a is OV A U S T R b T A á r R sediment load (see examples of barriers in Mu Pru Drau H U N G A R Y t DanubeSedi- graphic on the right). This imbalance con- Chișinău SLOVENIA ment project tributes to flood risks, causes the reduction Mureş Si ljana Zagreb re scope of navigation possibilities and hydropower Ljub Dráva t C R O A T I A production and loss of biodiversity within Dunav R O M A N I A Sava the Danube Basin. BOS NI A AND Beograd O Bucureșt For a period of two-and-a-half years, 14 HERZEGOVI NA lt i A partners from 9 countries along the Da- Sarajevo D M d ună r S E R B I A rea nube River will address these challenges e i d a M i o r t t a by developing transnational measures for e v i a r c r B U sustainable sediment management in the a MONTENEGRO L G A R I A Black n S e e Sofia DanubeSediment project. a n a Sea S Podgorica e The DanubeSediment project closes know- a ledge-gaps, drafts a first common Danube Sediment Balance and develops guidance for the implementation of measures. Barriers and associated main uses in the Danube River Basin (based on data collected for fish migration)

Results & The results of the project are also key con- 350 Legend Outputs tributions to the 3rd Danube River Basin Management Plan and 2nd Danube Flood Flood protection DE Germany BA Bosnia and 300 Herzegovina Risk Management Plan to be developed Hydropower AT Austria Water supply CZ ME Montenegro by ICPDR (International Commission for Erosion control SK Slovakia RS Serbia the Protection of the Danube River). This 250 Navigation HU Hungary RO Romania input will be made directly available in Other usage SI Slovenia BG Bulgaria open workshops to experts and interested 200 Not identified HR Croatia MD Moldova Kartographie: LfU, Referat 13 stakeholders. Geobasisdaten: Basierend auf EuroGlobalMap, © EuroGeographics. 100 Die Originaldaten sind frei verfügbar auf www.eurogeographics.org. Funding period: Relief basierend auf GTOPO30: USGS. Satellitenbild von Blue Marble Next Generation: NASA. 01/01/2017 - 30/06/2019 50 Website: www.interreg-danube.eu/danubesediment 0 Number DE AT CZ SK HU SI HR BA ME RS RO BG MD

Flow direction of the Danube River based on ICPDR, Source: 2015 DRBM Plan Update