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Title: CATCHMENT ABSTRACTION MANAGEMENT STRATEGY AND ECOLOGICAL FLOW DETERMINATION IN CASE OF NATURA 2000 AREAS

CATCHMENT ABSTRACTION MANAGEMENT STRATEGY AND ECOLOGICAL FLOW DETERMINATION IN CASE OF NATURA 2000 AREAS
Irena Ilcheva; Vesela Zaharieva; Anna Yordanova; Snejanka Balabanova
10.5593/sgem2024/3.1
1314-2704
English
24
3.1
•    Prof. DSc. Oleksandr Trofymchuk, UKRAINE 
•    Prof. Dr. hab. oec. Baiba Rivza, LATVIA
A classical approach to the assessment of the available water resources for different users, including environmental, in Europe is the Catchment Abstraction Management Strategy (CAMS). An assessment has to be made of the extent, to which natural runoff regime could be changed without affecting the sustainable functioning of the environment. The aim of the Restoring Sustainable Abstraction (RSA) is to identify over-abstraction in rivers and wetland sites and make the abstraction sustainable again. In this regard, the report presents an innovative approach for the integrated assessment and management of the water and natural resources (water ecosystems, wetlands, forest, etc.) in cases of Natura 2000 areas (on the example of Vitosha Nature Park, Sanitary Protection Zones of the Struma River Basin, etc.). In the methodology, the ecosystems are also part of the measures. Some measures (such as to restore water regime of the peatlands) are non-traditional measures for RSA and supply-side drought measure. This is a step towards improving the CAMS approach. The main stages of the improved methodology are: Modeling and assessment of climate factors and trends; Water balance modeling; Assessment of water consumption and the environmental needs; Ecological flow assessment and RSA; Simulation modeling and CAMS; Monitoring and adaptive management. A methodology and a mathematical model for determination the ecological flow in Bulgaria which is a necessary condition for achieving a good ecological status are proposed. As an object of research macrozoobentos ecosystem are considered. Emphasis is given to the places of water abstraction, water transfer, rivers at risk of not achieving good ecological potential (hot spots). Measures with synergistic effects are recommended – to protect ecosystems, for flood risk prevention, etc. The results and applications in practice are related to the Vitosha Nature Park Management Plan, Program of Measures, for the goals of WFD and Natura 2000 and supports the MoEW and Basin Directorates in determining the ecological flow and implementation the Eflow concept in Bulgaria
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[3] Development of Water Balance for the Territory of the Vitosha Nature Park 2014. Project financed by OP "Environment 2007 – 2013”, National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, Contract with the Vitosha NP. Project leader - Ilcheva, I.
[4] Determination of the minimum acceptable flow in the river beds after the complex dams according to the current Water Law, MoEW, 2022, Project leader – Ilcheva, I.
[5] Droumeva-Antonova, G., Groundwater and protected areas of dense forests along Tundzha River, Science & Technologies, Volume VI, Number 2, pp 37 – 43, 2016
[6] Droumeva-Antonova, G., K. Nacheva, Research of the drought severity for porouse groundwater, SocioBrains, issue 41, 230-236, ISSN: 2367-5721, pp 230-235, 2018
[7] Guidance No. 31, Ecological flows in the implementation of the WFD, 2015
[8] Ilcheva, I., A.Yordanova, V. Rainova, Water resource balance for Vitosha Nature Park and adaptive management under conditions of climate change, European Journal of Geography, Volume 10, Number 3:56-72, ISSN 1792-1341, pp 56-72, 2019
[9] Marinov, I., Velizarova, E., Niagolov, I., Nikolova, K., Ilcheva, I., Zlatanov, T., Mirchev, P., Zaharieva, V., Yordanova, A., Nikolov, I., Pavlova, E. and Mitev, S., Climatе changes and their influence on forest ecosystems and water resources in the catchment area of the Struma River watershed, ISBN: 978-954-395-081-2, 2012
[10] Managing water abstractions, Environmental Agency, UK, 2013
[11] Zaharieva, V., Environmental Runoff Assessment Approach EFLOW, ISBN 978-619-188-371-4, 2020
The research is part of the research projects carried out with the support of the Agreements with the MOEW, Vitosha NP, Executive Forest Agency and Forest Research Institute.
conference
Proceedings of 24th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM 2024
24th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM 2024, 01 - 07 July, 2024
Proceedings Paper
STEF92 Technology
International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference Surveying Geology and Mining Ecology Management, SGEM
SWS Scholarly Society; Acad Sci Czech Republ; Latvian Acad Sci; Polish Acad Sci; Russian Acad Sci; Serbian Acad Sci and Arts; Natl Acad Sci Ukraine; Natl Acad Sci Armenia; Sci Council Japan; European Acad Sci, Arts and Letters; Acad Fine Arts Zagreb Croatia; Croatian Acad Sci and Arts; Acad Sci Moldova; Montenegrin Acad Sci and Arts; Georgian Acad Sci; Acad Fine Arts and Design Bratislava; Russian Acad Arts; Turkish Acad Sci.
49-58
01 - 07 July, 2024
website
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ecological flow, macrozoobentos ecosystem, water balance modeling, Catchment abstraction management strategy, Natura 2000

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