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Complex water retention programme in the drainage-system of Lake Nagyszéksós [Hungary]

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Reporting Entity: Hungary

Clarify if the technology described in the template, or a part of it, is covered by property rights: Yes

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General Information

General Information

Title of best practice:

Complex water retention programme in the drainage-system of Lake Nagyszéksós

Country:

Hungary

Reporting Entity:

Hungary

Property Rights

Clarify if the technology described in the template, or a part of it, is covered by property rights:

Yes

Classification

Prevailing land use in the specified location

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agricultural cultivation

Specifications

Section 1. Context of the best practice: frame conditions (natural and human environment)

Short description of the best practice

Forwarding the settlements’ grey water into the reservoir, building the connecting wet-land.
Implementing the water replacement route within the reservoir, necessary landscaping.
Rebuilding the connecting main channels and their structures.|

Location

Hungary, Csongrád county|

If the location has well defined boundaries, specify its extension in hectares:

1200.0

Estimated population living in the location:

10000.0

Brief description of the natural environment within the specified location.

Climate of the catchment area is temperately warm and arid.
The catchment area is part of the Great Gungarian Plain, so vertical geographic structure is small.|
There are different sand and lick soils.

Prevailing socio-economic conditions of those living in the location and/or nearby

The main income sources originate in agricultural cultivation.

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