5 July, 2024
A herbaceous cover crop, alfalfa, will be planted next winter, which will prevent tree growth and maintain the water path, reducing the need for human intervention.
26 June, 2024
The LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project invited all the members of the participation spaces to visit the intervention area to recover the functionality of the meander with the reopening of the water paths that were typical of the Ebro.
14 June, 2024
In the meander that has been recovered as a river space, a process has been developed to decide with the territory and different interested sectors the future uses of the area, proposals that are already becoming a reality.
24 May, 2024
Periodic monitoring to review and check the status of all actions, schedule the next milestones and resolve possible doubts.
20 May, 2024
This intervention is part of Zone 1 of LIFE Ebro Resilience P1, in what is called the combined section of actions to mitigate the effects of floods and will allow the recovery of the functionality of the meander, helping to fulfill its role as a fluvial space.
13 May, 2024
On May 11, we joined this initiative that led hundreds of people to walk the river paths in the five continents, and together with the riverside population we completed the route from the meander of El Señorío (Castejón, in Navarra) and the meander of La Roza (Alfaro, La Rioja).
1 May, 2024
- This April, one of the most attractive lines of actions for strengthening social capacities and increasing knowledge about the river was launched. Journalism students from the faculties of Aragon, high school students from Alfaro and Castejón or technicians from other projects have already made interpretative descents with us.
29 April, 2024
On April 28, Fuenteros and neighbors from nearby towns enjoyed a walk along the meander of Aguilar, in the Ebro river in Fuentes, in an informative and recreational day organized by the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 project.
25 April, 2024
On May 11, we invite you to join us for a day of getting closer to the rivers. On the occasion of the global initiative WalkingRivers, on May 11 we have organized a circular route that will take us from the meander of El Señorío, in Castejón, Navarra, to the meander of La Roza, in Alfaro, in La Rioja.
16 April, 2024
The Autonomous Communities of the middle stretch of the Ebro, members of the Ebro Resilience Strategy and partners of the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project have launched lines of aid for private individuals and local entities, aimed at protection and adaptation to flood risk included in the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, the example being the publication of aid from the Government of La Rioja on April 12.
12 April, 2024
Up to 40 technical colleagues from state and regional river basin organizations have learned first-hand about the Project's ongoing actions and its pioneering proposal for social participation, during the conferences held on April 10 and 11.
21 March, 2024
The restoration of vegetation that is being carried out with vegetation typical of the Ebro riverbank in this channel, created during the morphological adaptation, gives us the excuse to talk about this type of intervention.
9 February, 2024
- These works are being carried out by the Government of La Rioja and will involve the planting of more than 4,600 specimens of riparian species imitating the natural growth of riparian vegetation.
2 February, 2024
In 2023, the meando de La Roza has inaugurated a new wetland area integrated in the morphological adaptation carried out through the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project, in addition to the one created in 2020 in La Nava as part of the actions of the Ebro Resilience Strategy.
24 January, 2024
Combined action section: succession of natural measures with global benefit to reduce flood damages.
The LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 project integrates its zone 1, between Alfaro, La Rioja and Castejón, Navarra, in the combined section that includes several proposals such as the reconnection of meanders, relief channels, recovery of old river branches and enlargement of the river space
19 January, 2024
New advances in key projects of the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 for 2024, which is expected to be a busy year in its two tranches. The last step has been the approval of the public information files of the projects of El Señorío (in Castejón, Navarra) and the improvement of flood resilience - phase 1 between Osera de Ebro and Fuentes de Ebro, in Zaragoza.
29 December, 2023
In addition to the stable participation groups that have been running for over a year and the activities for different sectors included in the capacity building plan, the project has launched these months the first actions of assistance and open participation, expanding the public and involvement with the LIFE proposals.
29 December, 2023
The actions have made significant progress with the closing of the main interventions in the town of Alfaro, in La Rioja, and the start of actions in section 2 of the project, in the province of Zaragoza.
19 December, 2023
The first planting phase carried out last February has already shown its effectiveness in flood events. A total of 21,100 specimens will be reached between the two phases, which apply techniques that mimic the natural distribution of riparian vegetation.
29 November, 2023
Both the participation plan and the proposals to increase social capabilities and knowledge about floods have teachers and other educational profiles as a key sector. For this reason, specific actions are started with them, such as the one aimed at analyzing the material that is being prepared for schoolchildren.
17 November, 2023
After a year of work, this phase of the intervention in Alfaro (La Rioja) by the CHE has concluded and all that remains is the river restoration to be carried out by the Government of La Rioja.
20 September, 2023
During this time the meander of La Roza, in Alfaro, has been recovered as a river space and has generated a new protected area in La Rioja and more than 40 participatory actions have been carried out, most of them related to new forms of involvement of the population that represent a milestone at European level.
23 June, 2023
The actions planned for the river and the proposals for participation and capacity building have passed through the plenary and parallel sessions of the IV Iberian Congress on River Restoration, the most important event on river restoration in Spain and Portugal.
8 June, 2023
Citizen science: population and partners present proposals for a virtual platform to monitor actions
The new tool will allow the exchange of images related to the monitoring of the project interventions and to have references of their behavior after their completion. To identify the different functionalities of the project he held an online meeting
19 May, 2023
We celebrate the European Day of the Natura 2000 Network. The land reclaimed for the river, a total of 22 hectares, has been incorporated into the Natura 2000 Network "ZEC Sotos y Riberas del Ebro" through Decree 46/2022 of August 17 of the Government of La Rioja.
4 May, 2023
We held the open forum on future recreational uses on the land of this meander recovered as a space for the river with the participation of new stakeholders in the adaptation measures and natural spaces.