Water management
Water management
Expert opinions for EID and EIA, expert reports
2020-2023 EIA expansion and new construction Westbahnstrecke Salzburg-Vienna
Tasks: Project impact assessment on surface waters, acquisation of affected river stretches according WFD and EIA-law, assessment and analysis of possible impacts
Client: ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG
2020-2022 EIA expansion Pottendorfer line
Tasks: Technical report freshwater ecology, status-quo surveys aquatic animals (fish, mussels, macrozoobenthos) and limnochemical analyses, immission assessments, impact assessment of the planned interventions on the aquatic community , support in the official process
Client: ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG
2019 Ecological Impact Assessment – Resavska Celina (Serbia)
Ecological assessment for the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) within the Serbian Climate Resilience & Irrigation Project – Technical, Environmental and Social Due Diligence Resavska Celina
Tasks: Field trip and screening of macro-invertebrates, data analysis and ecological impact assessment
Client: hydrophil GmbH, in co-operation with Dr. Momir Paunovic (University of Belgrade, IBISS)
2017 Expert report about the EID for the pumped-storage plant Koralm
Tasks: Expert report within the field of hydro-ecology about the environmental impact declaration for the pumped-storage plant Koralm
Client: Ökoteam – Institut für Tierökologie und Naturraumplanung OG
2016-2017 Expert opinion for the environmental impact declaration about the B61a
Tasks: Expert report as unofficial expert within the field of hydro-ecology for the environmental impact declaration about the B61a highway in southern Burgenland
Client: Amt der Bgld. Landesregierung
2016-2017 Expert report about the EID Minex / Zeltweg
Due to expected hydro-chemical and fish-ecological impacts, a planned smelting plant of MINEX GmbH in Zeltweg was subject to an environmental impact declaration. In order to improve the environmental compatibility of the project, DWS Hydro-Ecology evaluated the available EID reports and provided ecological consulting for the client.
Client: World Wildlife Fund
2011-2014 EIA expert report Weinviertel highway, A5 Nord B
Tasks: Expert report within the field of hydro-ecology, submitted as unofficial expert in the EIA and the water-legislative process for the Weinviertel highway, A5 North B, section Poysbrunn – state border
Client: bmvit; Amt der NÖ Landesregierung
2012-2015 EIA expert report Weinviertel highway, S3
Tasks: Expert report within the field of hydro-ecology, submitted as unofficial expert in the EIA and the water-legislative process for the Weinviertel highway, S3, section Hollabrunn – Guntersdorf
Client: bmvit
2011-2014 EIA expert report Weinviertel highway, A5 Nord A
Tasks: Expert report within the field of hydro-ecology, submitted as unofficial expert in the EIA and the water-legislative process for the Weinviertel highway, A5 North A, section Schrick – Poysbrunn
Client: bmvit; Amt der NÖ Landesregierung
2012-2013 Environmental impact statement gravel quarry Untersiebenbrunn
Tasks: The aim was to record a component report for the division water ecology in the course of the environmental impact declaration for sand and gravel aquisition of the gravel quarry Untersiebenbrunn GmbH. Beside hydro-geological issues, also the following limnological (water-ecological) topics were to be assessed: the prospective trophic delvelopment of dredging in the context of an eutrophication prognosis as well as a possible impact on other water wells by the dredging.
Client: DI Class GmbH
2007 Expert opinion “Geothermal effluents – river Feistritz”
DWS Hydro-Ecology worked out an expert opinion on the ecological impact of discharges of geothermal effluents on the rivers Feistritz and Lafnitz.
Client: Amt der Bgld. Landesregierung
2003 Expertise on the fishery use of Lake Ratzersdorf
Lake Ratzersdorf, situated North-East of St. Pölten, is one of the most important recreational areas near the capital of Lower Austria and intensively used for bathing. Besides, it is used extensively for fishing, which was however not allowed under existing water law permit. The local fishing association asked for a expert opinion on possible impacts of fishery on the water quality of Lake Ratzersdorf.
Tasks: Limnological charakterisation on the basis of existing data (water quality, chemistry and biology), calculation of a nutrient balance, assessment of impacts of the fishery use
Client: Fishing association SKG (Sport- und Kulturgemeinschaft der Gewerkschaft der Gemeindebediensteten der Landeshauptstadt St. Pölten)
