ANNEX 6 Future Infrastructure Projects affecting Hydromorphological Conditions in the Danube River Basin

The following list of projects is a preliminary list of navigation projects, dams and flood control works, which would add to the hydro-morphological alterations in the Danube
River Basin.

This list is not (and is not intended to be) an exhaustive list of planned projects or projects in development but an indicative list giving an information about some of the
larger and more important projects or developments, which could affect the hydro-morphological situation along the Danube and its tributaries.

PROJECT NAME / LOCATION
COUNTRY
PROJECT TYPE
PROJECT STATUS
SHORT DESCRIPTION / COMMENTS
Danube ­ Straubing-Vilshofen
Germany
Navigation - TENs
Plan ­ Project assessment
Part of Corridor VII of the TENs list

for regional planning
(Eliminating bottlenecks on the Rhine-
(`Raumordnungsverfahren') Main-Danube-Waterway) of priority
started in December 2003
projects. The project assessment
and is expected to be
includes 3 alternative solutions: 1) by
finished in 2005.
fluvial methods only (i.e. groynes,
dredging), and 2) by dams/weirs (1 or
3) to improve navigation in the 70 km
long stretch of the Danube.
Danube ­ Vienna-Bratislava
Austria
Navigation ­ TENs, River-bed-
Plan ­ Environmental
Part of Corridor VII of the TENs list
stabilisation and ecological
assessment to be
(Eliminating Bottlenecks on the Rhine-
improvement
prepared.
Main-Danube-Waterway) of priority
projects. The project involves a variety
of infrastructural and ecological
measures to improve navigation, the
stability of the river bed as well as the
ecological conditions along the 50 km
stretch of the Danube.
Danube-Odra-Elbe Canal
Czech Republic, Slovakia,
Navigation
Preliminary study for
Preliminary study on connecting the

Austria, Poland, Germany
urbanistic reserve
Danube, Odra and Elbe, supported by

the water transport development policy,
opposed by the environment policy. It
has been discussed for a very long time
and is highly controversial.
Implementation is not expected in the
near future.

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PROJECT NAME / LOCATION
COUNTRY
PROJECT TYPE
PROJECT STATUS
SHORT DESCRIPTION / COMMENTS
Port Devinska Nova Ves
Slovakia
Navigation - Port
Baseline study and plan


Danube ­ Bratislava / Wolfsthal Slovakia, Austria
Navigation - Dam
Plan
Supported by the water transport
development policy in the Slovak
Republic.
Danube - Bratislava
Slovakia
Flood protection
Plan
Flood protection measure
Danube -
Slovakia, Hungary
Gabcikova Dam (Slovakia) for Built ­ remedial measures
Negations are ongoing for the
Gabcikovo/Nagymaros
power production and
needed; ongoing
implementation of the decisions of The
navigation
discussion about alternative Hague International Court.
scheme of operation
Danube - Palkovicovo - Mohacs Hungary
Navigation - TENs
Plan
Applied for support for eligible studies

on transport, hydraulically and
regulatory aspects aiming at the
improvement of the navigability of the
Danube (eliminating bottlenecks on the
Slovak-Hungarian and Hungarian
stretches of the Danube).
The New Vásárhelyi Plan/
Hungary
Flood protection, regional
Plan
The proposal comprises a complex
River Tisza­ Hungarian Part
development
programme, which covers the creation

of a higher level of flood safety, the
improvement of the living standards of
rural and urban population in the region,
the formulation and introduction of new
types of agro-ecological land use in the
area of the emergency flood retention
reservoirs and the modernisation of the
infrastructure in the settlements along
the Tisza River.
Sava
Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Navigation Plan

Herzegovina and Serbia and
Montenegro
Sava
Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Navigation
Strategy
Potential location of harbour mentioned
Serbia
in the Spatial Development Strategy of
Slovenia, possibly on the border section

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PROJECT NAME / LOCATION
COUNTRY
PROJECT TYPE
PROJECT STATUS
SHORT DESCRIPTION / COMMENTS
of Sava between Slovenia and Croatia.
Blanca Dam
Slovenia
Dam for power production
Project Plan and
Preparation of technical documentation
Environmental Assessment in progress for one hydropower plant.
Croatian State Physical
Multipurpose hydrotechnical
Power generation, irrigation,
Croatia, Hungary
Planning Programme

system/the Drava river
flood protection, navigation
(1999); design developed
Croatian State Physical
Multipurpose hydrotechnical
Power generation, irrigation,
Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia
Planning Programme

system/Mura river
flood protection
(1999); design developed
Power generation, navigation,
State Physical Planning
Multipurpose hydrotechnical
Cooperation with Bosnia i Herzegovina,
Croatia
water supply, irrigation, flood
Programme (1999); design
system/Sava river
downstream of the Una River mouth.
protection
developed
Design developed, initial
Multipurpose hydrotechnical
environmental assessment;
Danube-Sava navigable canal
Croatia

system (navigation, irrigation)
state physical planning
programme (1999)
Drina
Serbia and Montenegro
Dams on Drina River
Plan
Several cascade dams on Drina River
for hydropower utilization.
Danube between Bulgaria and
Bulgaria, Romania
Navigation - TENs
Plan
Negotiations foreseen between the
Romania
Romanian and Bulgarian Environment

and Transport Authorities in order to
mitigate the adverse impact on the
water status.
Danube Port of Moldova
Moldova
Navigation
Plan ­ partially begun


Ukrainian Danube Delta Canal
Ukraine
Navigation
Under construction



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