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
			[Euro]	[Euro]
Habitat	Instream habitat adjustments	Placement of spawning gravel in the river	10	100
		Placement of stones in the river	50	150
		Cleaning of substrate - ripping, ploughing and flushing	1	50
		Placement of dead wood and debris	10	150
	Re-storing habitat	Removal of weirs	2,000	1,000,000
		Construction of a 'river-in-the-river'	50	5,000
		Construction of off-channel habitats	1	100
	Shore-line habitat	Environmental design of embankments and erosion protection	10	150
		Restoration of the riparian zone vegetation	1	50
Fish migration	Downstream	Migration barrier removal	2,000	1,000,000
		Operational measures (turbine operations, spillway passage)	NA
		Sensory, behavioural barriers (electricity, light, sound, air-water curtains)	NA
		Fish-friendly turbines	500,000
		Skimming walls (fixed or floating)	3,000
		Bypass combined with other solutions	10,000	25,000
		Fish guidance structures with narrow bar spacing	2,000	40,000
		Fish guidance structures with wide bar spacing	2,000	40,000
		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
		Nature-like fishways	5,000	20,000
		Pool-type fishways	10,000	100,000
		Baffle fishways	5,000	100,000
		Fishways for eels and lampreys	600
		Fish lifts, screws, locks, and others	10,000	500,000
		Truck transport	NA
Sediment	Rout-ing	Drawdown reservoir flushing	1	50
		Sediment sluicing	NA
	Removal	By-passing sediments	NA
		Off-channel reservoir storage	NA
		Mechanical removal of fine sediments (dredging)	5	10
		Minimizing sediment arrival to reservoir	150,000
	Restoration in rivers	Removal of bank protection	NA
		Removal of debris	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)