Costs of solutions

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One of the goals of the FIThydro project is to determine the financial costs of implementing mitigation measures (solutions).

Library of possible measures			Min	Max	Unit
			[Euro]	[Euro]
Habitat	Instream habitat adjustments	Placement of spawning gravel in the river	10	100	per cubic meter
		Placement of stones in the river	50	150	per cubic meter
		Cleaning of substrate - ripping, ploughing and flushing	1	50	per square meter
		Placement of dead wood and debris	10	150	per meter
	Re-storing habitat	Removal of weirs	2,000	1,000,000	per weir
		Construction of a 'river-in-the-river'	50	5,000	per meter
		Construction of off-channel habitats	1	100	per square meter
	Shore-line habitat	Environmental design of embankments and erosion protection	10	150	per meter
		Restoration of the riparian zone vegetation	1	50	per square meter
Fish migration	Downstream	Migration barrier removal	2,000	1,000,000	per project
		Operational measures (turbine operations, spillway passage)	NA
		Sensory, behavioural barriers (electricity, light, sound, air-water curtains)	NA
		Fish-friendly turbines	500,000		per turbine
		Skimming walls (fixed or floating)	3,000		per m3/second
		Bypass combined with other solutions	10,000	25,000	per m3/second
		Fish guidance structures with narrow bar spacing	2,000	40,000	per m3/second
		Fish guidance structures with wide bar spacing	2,000	40,000	per m3/second
		Downstream fish protection system using electro shock technique
		Bottom-type intakes (Coanda screen, Lepine water intake, etc.)	NA
		Other types of fine screens
		Vertical slot fishways
	Upstream	Complete or partial migration barrier removal	2,000	1,000,000	per project
		Nature-like fishways	5,000	20,000	per vertical meter
		Pool-type fishways	10,000	100,000	per vertical meter
		Baffle fishways	5,000	100,000	per vertical meter
		Fishways for eels and lampreys	600		per meter length
		Fish lifts, screws, locks, and others	10,000	500,000	per project
		Truck transport	NA
Sediment	Rout-ing	Drawdown reservoir flushing	1	50	per cubic meter
		Sediment sluicing	NA
	Removal	By-passing sediments	NA
		Off-channel reservoir storage	NA
		Mechanical removal of fine sediments (dredging)	5	10	per cubic meter
		Minimizing sediment arrival to the reservoir	150,000		per Vortex tube
	Restoration in rivers	Removal of bank protection	NA
		Debris removal	NA
Environmental flow	General flow regime	Mitigating reduced annual flow and low flow measures
		Mitigating reduced flood peaks, magnitudes and frequency
	Short-term flow regime	Mitigating rapid, short-term variations in flow (hydro-peaking operations)