Restoration – Page 2 – Ebro Resilience

4 September, 2024

LIFE Ebro Resilience P1: a knowledge network on floods and replication of results

Networking and knowledge exchange and the transfer and replication of results are two lines of work of the Project, which have already taken Ebro Resilience technicians to 14 national and international forums, congresses and conferences.

5 July, 2024

Reducing future maintenance of interventions: La Roza meander relief channel

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

Visita a la obra de recuperación de antiguos brazos de río en el Soto de Alfaro por parte de los integrantes de los espacios de participación del proyecto LIFE Ebro Resilience P1

26 June, 2024

Getting to know the actions for the recovery of river branches in the Soto de Alfaro

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.

21 June, 2024

4.6 million euros for the Ebro Resilience Strategy

River restoration projects approved for sections 7 Alcalá de Ebro, Remolinos and Luceni and 9 Torres de Berrellén and Sobradiel. The Official Gazette of Aragon has announced the approval of the projects of “River restoration and habitat improvement in sections […]

14 June, 2024

Grupo de ribereños visitando la zona del meandro de La Roza y cerca de la parcela liberada

14 June, 2024

LIFE participation: land use in La Roza (Alfaro), from proposal to execution

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.

31 May, 2024

Information session on adaptation to flooding in the Osera de Ebro-Fuentes de Ebro section.

The LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project organized a conference, mainly aimed at stakeholders of the Irrigation Community of La Huerta del Ebro, to inform about the measures proposed to reduce damage in extraordinary floods and that have European funding and the state and regional administrations.

30 May, 2024

Grupo técnico con todos los socios del proyecto LIFE en la Green Week

30 May, 2024

Ebro Resilience experiences presented at the EU Green Week dedicated to hydrological resilience

The European Commission has invited the project to participate in its annual Green Week in Brussels, specifically in the session dedicated to the restoration and protection of the water cycle.

24 May, 2024

Reunión del monitor del Programa LIFE. El grupo técnico del proyecto y el monitor Borja Domínguez en la sesión de sala.

24 May, 2024

Annual monitoring visit from the European LIFE Program

Periodic monitoring to review and check the status of all actions, schedule the next milestones and resolve possible doubts.

20 May, 2024

Nature-based solutions: recovery of river branches in Soto de Alfaro begins

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

Walking Rivers. Ruta realizada por el Proyecto LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 entre los meandros de El Señorío y La Roza, integrándose en la experiencia mundial de caminar los ríos.

13 May, 2024

Walking Rivers: LIFE Ebro Resilience Project participates in this worldwide experience

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).

6 May, 2024

Adecuación morfológica y restauración ambiental en paraje de El Estajao

6 May, 2024

Completion of the morphological adaptation and environmental restoration works on the Ebro river as it passes through the El Estajao site in Alfaro (La Rioja)

The actions, within the framework of the Ebro Resilience Strategy, have involved an investment of over 2 million euros. The works of morphological adaptation and environmental restoration of the Ebro river in the “El Estajao” site, located in Alfaro (La […]

1 May, 2024

Descenso interpretativo desde Ortigoso a El Señorío en la jornada de intercambio con LIFE Kantauribai

1 May, 2024

Interpretative descents on the Ebro: more knowledge about the river and the Resilience actions

- 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

29 April, 2024

Enjoying the river and learning about floods: large turnout at the Aguilar meander route

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.

16 April, 2024

Adecuación morfológica en el río Ebro en el meandro de La Roza, Alfaro (La Rioja)

16 April, 2024

Commitment to adaptation in the middle segment: subsidies through NextGeneration Funds in La Rioja,

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.

15 April, 2024

Informative sessions of the Government of Navarre on subsidies for adaptation to flood risks

On April 30 and May 2 and 3, the Directorate General for the Environment of Navarra will resolve doubts about the two calls for subsidies addressed to local entities for actions for protection and adaptation to flood risk, both with NextGeneration funds and one of them focused on the municipalities within the scope of the Ebro Resilience Strategy.

12 April, 2024

Foto de grupo con bandera LIFE visita Organismos de cuenca de toda España al meandro de La Roza, Alfaro.

12 April, 2024

LIFE Ebro Resilience P1: hosts basin organizations from all over Spain to discuss adaptation and public participation

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.

2 April, 2024

Cartel anunciador de la ruta guiada al Soto de Aguilar en Fuentes de Ebro

2 April, 2024

Guided tour through the Soto de Aguilar, in Fuentes de Ebro.

On April 28th, an informative guided tour on the Ebro River and the risk of flooding will be organized. During the morning we will go through the meander of Aguilar, in the municipality of Fuentes de Ebro. There, we will see birds, learn about the works to be carried out and some concepts of fluvial dynamics. Sign up.

21 March, 2024

Vista del meandro y del cauce de alivio de La Roza, Alfaro, La Rioja

21 March, 2024

The relief channel in the meander of La Roza: a riparian corridor with more continuity and diversity for habitats.

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.

13 March, 2024

Meandro de la roza con máximos caudales registrados en el episodio de crecidas (unos 2.000 m3/s) en el tramo medio.

13 March, 2024

Ebro Resilience Interventions: a review in images of the last flooding of the river

The last week of February has seen a flood of flows in the middle stretch of the Ebro due to the rains recorded in the Ebro basin, an episode at the limit of what is considered extraordinary that leaves us these images of the response of the Ebro Resilience intervention typologies in this stretch

2 February, 2024

Imagen del nuevo humedal creado en el meandro de La Roza, Alfaro, La Rioja

2 February, 2024

Wetlands in the Ebro Resilience territory: La Nava and La Roza, Alfaro (la Rioja)

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

Plano del tramo combinado de actuaciones del Proyecto LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 entre Alfaro (La Rioja) y Castejón (Navarra). Sucesión de medidas naturales de evacuación de agua.

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

Public information on the projects for El Señorío (Navarra) and phase 1 of the Osera de Ebro-Fuentes de Ebro section (Zaragoza)

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

Public conferences and informative sessions: Ebro Resilience actions open to the whole of society

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

Grupo de trabajo del LIFE Ebro Resilience P

29 December, 2023

2023 LIFE: end of the morphological adaptation in La Roza, start of the adaptation of the irrigable area in Fuentes de Ebro and more social involvement

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

Plantaciones en El Estajao. Alfaro. La Rioja

19 December, 2023

The second phase of planting in “El Estajao” (Alfaro), the final stretch of the environmental restoration work

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.

12 December, 2023

Visor cartográfico de la Red Nacional Rural

12 December, 2023

LIFE Ebro Resilience P1, included in the viewer of good practices in rural areas

The Project is one of the actions included in this new tool of the National Rural Network of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food because of its scope of action and because it is innovative, transferable to other areas and contributes to the improvement of work.

11 December, 2023

Técnica de reconexión de brazo antiguo de río Ebro

11 December, 2023

New: follow-up studies on the technique for the recovery of old river branches

The Ebro Hydrographic Confederation has published two studies that increase the knowledge on the evolution of areas where old branches of the river have been recovered, one of the actions included in the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 works.

23 November, 2023

National and international contacts for LIFE Ebro Resilience project

In recent weeks, the Project has been expanding its professional and institutional network by participating in various technical forums and hosting international delegations. The example of LIFE actions is being introduced to new audiences.

17 November, 2023

Trabajos con maquinaria en el meandro de La Roza, en Alfaro, La Rioja

17 November, 2023

Concludes the morphological adaptation of the Ebro in the meander of La Roza

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.

24 October, 2023

Reunión del grupo de co-creación 1 de la zona 2 en Fuentes de Ebro

24 October, 2023

Participation: presenting the proposal for the adaptation of the agricultural zone in the Osera-Fuentes section.

We gathered the co-creation group dedicated to mitigation and adaptation actions in zone 2, the Osera de Ebro - Fuentes de Ebro section, to present the proposal for the lateral buffer zones.

20 October, 2023

Ebro Resilience at the Water Engineering Conference: green infrastructures and adaptation measures

The LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project has presented in Cartagena a summary poster of the project and an article explaining the positive results expected from the interventions, reducing the risk of flooding and recovering 60 hectares of river space.

20 September, 2023

Two years of the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project: progress and proposals for participation

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.

8 September, 2023

Jornada divulgativa celebrada en el Museo de Castejón, Navarra, sobre el meandro de El Señorío

8 September, 2023

The conference on the adaptation of the meander of El Señorío (Castejón) attracts a large number of riverside visitors

Stakeholders were able to learn in detail about the planned intervention to reduce the risk of flooding, future environmental restoration and participatory actions.

28 August, 2023

28 August, 2023

Public information on Phase 1 of the improvement of flood resilience in the Osera-Fuentes de Ebro section (Zaragoza).

This phase consists of the morphological adaptation of the Ebro in Zone 2 of the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project.

10 August, 2023

LIFE team holds a meeting with mayors of the area on the El Señorío meander (Navarra)

In addition to this meeting with the representatives of the city councils, a public information day has been organized for the first week of September, which will include a visit to the intervention area.

26 July, 2023

Ebro Resilience environmental actions: permeabilization of the Pina Dam, Ebro River (Zaragoza).

In addition to reducing the risk of flooding in the middle stretch of the Ebro, the Strategy aims to improve the ecological status of the intervention sections, such as this intervention, which will maintain the use of the infrastructure by improving the longitudinal continuity of the river.

17 July, 2023

Phase 1 of the environmental restoration of the Ebro river in “El Ortigoso”, Milagro (Navarra) is completed.

The works have had a budget of 1,432,467 € and 6.4 hectares of river space have been recovered with plantations of native riverside species, reaching 12,000 specimens.

23 June, 2023

LIFE Ebro Resilience P1: the Ebro basin, intervention model in RestauraRíos

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.

19 May, 2023

LIFE news: intervention in La Roza increases the Natura Network protected area in the Ebro

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.

16 May, 2023

Ebro Resilience experiences will be presented at the IV Iberian Congress on River Restoration

Through scientific communications and case studies in the plenary of the congress, posters on specific actions and presence in spaces for reflection, the innovative approach to flood risk reduction will have a special role in this event, next June, in Toledo.

4 May, 2023

Proposals from the territory: new ways of participation on the La Roza meander

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.

28 April, 2023

Green infrastructures and adaptation measures in a Conference of the Colegio de Caminos

LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 is presented in a new professional forum to explain its proposals and actions. The Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos invited the Project to the conference "Response to extraordinary risks", which was held in Madrid on April 27.