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The PURE Guidebook on Water System Restoration

Introduction

PURE North Sea is a EU project, which started in 2002 and lasted for four years. Led by the Province of Groningen, partners from England, Sweden and the Netherlands set up and realised a great number of projects in those four years.

Description

The pilot projects of PURE cover a broad variety of problems and issues related to water system restoration, such as surface water management, over-fertilisation, flooding / droughts and the creation of attractive areas both for recreation and biological diversity. The issues and problems that each pilot project had to face, as well as the working methods and technical solutions chosen to solve these problems are described in this guidebook. Of course, the overall influence of the PURE project is also studied.

EU involvement

The project is partially funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

Conclusions

Water restoration systems should always be implemented based on a cathment scale approach (meaning that the entire catchment area is seen as a whole and studied in the planning process).
Make a water structure plan for the whole catchment area.
Integrate rural and urban water management systems.
Choose natural solutions instead of technical constructions.
Use participation methods to involve the local community in the campaign against litter.

Contact info

PURE Secretariat

Publication date

01/02/2006

Cities

The North Sea area: Groningen, Deventer, Goteborg and the North East of the United Kingdom.

Links

The PURE North Sea project on EUKN The Province of Groningen, the lead partner (in Dutch)

The PURE Guidebook on water system restoration (PDF, Eng, 7.5 MB)

Document type

research

Themes

Urban Policy > Urban environment > Urban renewal

Keywords

Waterside development