The created expert groundwork identifies all elements that are required in the making of the Environmental Report, which is needed for the Environmental Protection Approval within the National Spatial Plan for the Hrastje Mota HPP.
The created expert groundwork identifies all elements that are required in the making of the Environmental Report, which is needed for the Environmental Protection Approval within the National Spatial Plan for the Hrastje Mota HPP.
The aim of this study was to analyse the hydrological and hydromorphological status of the interior section of the Mura River between Radenci and Gibina and to make a comparison between the water levels of the groundwater at Mursko polje and at Prekmursko polje as well as to compare the changes in the Mura River’s water level to those of the groundwater.
In order to determine public interest as stipulated by Article 4.7 of the Water Framework Directive on the possibility of deviating from the objective of the existing good status or the good ecological potential of bodies of water due to the construction of hydro-electric power plants, we prepared expert groundwork for assessment methodologies that use uniform criteria.
Determining a concept for addressing the existing state at the border section of the Mura River is needed so that the strategic decision-making and planning of improvements can be integrated with the planning of measures to achieve the water and environmentally-oriented objectives, including adaptation to climate change with additional planned increases in the share of renewable energy from hydro-electric power.
Making an expert assessment of the change trend in the status of the water body at the border section of the Mura River (dredging (morphological changes of the water body), decrease of the surface of the Mura River and of the Apaško polje groundwater (hydrological changes) after the cross-sectional year of 2002 (Basic water management regulation of the border section of the Mura River – Standing Slovenian-Austrian Commission for the Mura River)), making expert groundwork for the positions of the Republic of Slovenia within the Standing Slovenian-Austrian Commission for the Mura River regarding the determination of the status of the water body at the border section of the Mura River and making expert groundwork for a proposal of measures to improve the status of the water body at the border section of the Mura River that are coordinated between the neighbouring countries of Slovenia and Austria at the Standing Slovenian-Austrian Commission for the Mura River.