Practical actions for holistic drainage management for reduced nutrient inflow to Baltic Sea

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

Date of latest update: 2023-11-11

Description

Description (EN):

NUTRINFLOW responds to the common pan-Baltic challenge to implement more effective and acceptable measures to reduce nutrient inflows to the surface waters and the Baltic Sea from agriculture. Measures in the broader landscape are needed to restore the lost retention capacity and to complement on-farm agri-environment measures. Agricultural drainage infrastructure faces the need of renovation in the project partner countries which provides additional impetus to cooperate to enhance knowledge and exchange experiences from concrete activities. Drainage systems are also potential settings for further applications in bioeconomy for energy and protein crop production. The project activities will focus on pilot areas in Finland, Latvia and Sweden under pressure by agricultural nutrient losses. The project rests on a holistic catchment perspective. In line with existing management plans and drainage conditions, targeted demonstration investments are implemented in the drainage network in cooperation with municipalities and farmers as the main target groups. Through the investments, the project will reduce nutrient losses from agriculture in three priority regions. Furthermore, the project will establish local innovation groups to stimulated voluntary organisation, innovation and implementation of measures in water flow regulation and support broader dialog across the participating municipalities. As a result, the project aims to have lead to reductions in nutrient inputs to the Baltic Sea and to have increased attractiveness and feasibility of holistic water management approach for agricultural catchments across the Central Baltic Region. In summary, the project connects local authorities and farmers in a unique way and will demonstrate a cross-sector approach in sustainable agriculture and management of ecosystem resources. The project is the first full-scale project under the EUSBSR PA AGRI Flagship project Flow Baltic through which it will gain region-wide visibility.

Achievements (EN):

NUTRINFLOW: Sustainable and approachable nutrient reduction: NUTRINFLOW reduced nutrient losses from agriculture to immediate watersheds and into the Baltic Sea. Reduction was achieved through pilot investments implemented in Finland, Sweden and Latvia, where various nutrient sources were targeted. Instead of the planned five nutrient sources, the project ended up choosing 11 sources. Actions included river channel restorations, building wetlands and flood plains, mounting or renovating culverts and improving subsurface drainage. Direct improvements from these actions were reduced nutrient losses in phosphorus and nitrogen. Knowledge gained from the pilot sites serve as a reference for a holisitic drainage management, offering farmers and other stake-holder organisations important information on these issues. The project also increased general awareness among farmers, advisors and municipal authorities and services on drainage techniques and approaches to integrate field and basic drainage measures. Due to its high relevance, good implementation and re-usability of results, the project gained the Baltic Sea Strategy Flagship (Flow Baltic) status. The outcomes of the NUTRINFLOW will be further utilised by the Ministry of Agriculture to prepare suggestions on nutrient retention measures in agricultural drainage to be supported in Latvia during the next planning period of the Common Agricultural Policy (2021-2027). Project website: nutrinflow.eu

Website: http://centralbaltic.eu/

Expected Results (EN): R2.4. The amounts of nutrients, hazardous substances and toxins inflows into the Baltic Sea

Expected Outputs (EN):

1. Demo sites with pilot investments.These provide direct improvements in water management in the pilot areas and reduced nutrient losses (phosphorus and nitrogen with local variations). Ultimate nutrient reductions to the Baltic Sea from the pilot areas attributed to the project measures are not possible to verify over the projects life time, but the project will use baseline data, modelling, monitoring and reference areas with no measures implemented to verify the impact. Acceptability, implementability and multifunctionality are additional criteria for the measures implemented;2. Local innovation and action groups stimulating voluntary action and entrepreneurship in water management;3. Synthesis of lessons to allow for a broader national and international dialogue and transfer of the results to generate concrete projects in other areas across the BSR;4. Increased awareness among farmers, advisors and municipal authorities and services on drainage techniques and approaches to integrate field and basic drainage measures - lowering the barriers for execution of sustainable drainage management and combination of environmental and production benefits;Other results:5. International network for information, knowledge and experience exchange for practical application in planning, targeting and implementing measures in the new Rural Development Programme6. Tools for landowners to verify benefits of measures7. Enhanced development of technical solutions for regulating drainage water8. A “Business plan” for activating landowners, drainage associations and other comparable local groups for holistic water management9. Innovation competition for university students10. Country specific recommendations for administration11. Updated and connected databases (e.g. WikiSCIEN, national drainage maps)

Thematic information

Water management Waterways, lakes and rivers Agriculture and fisheries and forestry

Specific Objective: Reduced nutrients, hazardous substances and toxins inflows into the Baltic Sea

Thematic Objective: (06) preserving and protecting the environment and promoting resource efficiency by:

Investment Priority: (06f) promoting innovative technologies to improve environmental protection and resource efficiency in the waste sector, water sector and with regard to soil, or to reduce air pollution

Partners (9)

Lead Partner: ProAgria Etelä-Suomi ry

Address: Pormestarinkatu 6, 53100 LAPPEENRANTA, Finland

Legal status: private

Website: http://etela-suomi.proagria.fi/

Total budget: EUR 579 988.00

ERDF budget: EUR 434 991.00

Loviisan kaupunki

Name: Loviisan kaupunki

Department: Environment protection

Address: Loviisa, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.loviisa.fi

Total budget: EUR 56 587.48

ERDF budget: EUR 42 440.61

Zemnieku Saeima

Name: Zemnieku Saeima

Department: -

Address: Republikas laukums 2-916, LV-1010 Riga, Latvia

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.zemniekusaeima.lv

Total budget: EUR 171 625.47

ERDF budget: EUR 145 881.65

Länsstyrelsen Östergötland

Name: Länsstyrelsen Östergötland

Department: Lantbruksenheten / Department of Agriculture

Address: Östgötagatan 3, 58186 Linköping, Sweden

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.lansstyrelsen.se/ostergotland

Total budget: EUR 190 802.76

ERDF budget: EUR 143 102.07

Jelgavas novada pašvaldība

Name: Jelgavas novada pašvaldība

Address: Pasta street 37, LV 3001 Jelgava, Latvia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.jelgavasnovads.lv

Total budget: EUR 139 833.00

ERDF budget: EUR 118 858.05

Latvijas Biozinātņu un tehnoloģiju universitāte

Name: Latvijas Biozinātņu un tehnoloģiju universitāte

Address: Lielā iela 2, LV-3001 Jelgava, Latvia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.llu.lv/

Total budget: EUR 102 020.00

ERDF budget: EUR 86 717.00

Nylands Svenska Lantbrukssällskap

Name: Nylands Svenska Lantbrukssällskap

Address: Liisankatu 21 B8, 170 Helsinki, Finland

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.nsl.fi

Total budget: EUR 24 666.00

ERDF budget: EUR 18 499.50

Zemgales plānošanas reģions

Name: Zemgales plānošanas reģions

Department: n/a

Address: Katolu 2b, LV-3001 Jelgava, Latvia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.zemgale.lv

Total budget: EUR 247 390.50

ERDF budget: EUR 210 281.92

JTI – Institutet för jordbruks- och miljöteknik

Name: JTI – Institutet för jordbruks- och miljöteknik

Address: Ultunaallén 4, SE-75005 Uppsala, Sweden

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.jti.se

Total budget: EUR 251 048.45

ERDF budget: EUR 188 286.34

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City of Loviisa

Practical actions for holistic drainage management for reduced nutrient inflow to Baltic Sea

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Union Farmers' Parliament

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County Administrative Board of Östergötland

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Jelgava Local Municipality

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Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies

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Zemgale Planning region

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JTI-Swedish Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Engineering

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ProAgria Southern Finland

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Summary

Project name (EN): Practical actions for holistic drainage management for reduced nutrient inflow to Baltic Sea

Project acronym: NUTRINFLOW

Project start date: 2015-09-01

Project end date: 2019-02-28

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 763 961.66

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 389 058.14

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 1 389 058.14.

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Catchment area renovation instead of separate actions, success story of Hardombäcken in Loviisa, Finland

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: http://database.centralbaltic.eu/results

Publication date: 2020-01-27

Document date: 2019-02-28

Languages: en

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2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

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Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://centralbaltic.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-11-08, 2023-01-12 and 2024-03-08.

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