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Summary
Detention basins and ponds are water bodies storing surface run-off. A detention basin is free from water in dry weather flow conditions, whereas a pond (e.g. retention ponds, flood storage reservoirs, shallow impoundments) contains water during dry weather, and is designed to hold more when it rains.
Benefits
Ecosystem service
Level | Benefits | |
---|---|---|
High | Provisioning | ES1 - Water storage |
High | Regulatory and maintenance | ES6 - Groundwater/aquifer recharge |
High | Regulatory and maintenance | ES7 - Flood risk reduction |
Medium | Regulatory and maintenance | ES9 - Filtration of pollutants |
Medium | Cultural | ES10 - Recreational opportunities |
Medium | Cultural | ES11 - Aesthetic/cultural value |
Low | Provisioning | ES2 - Fish stocks and recruiting |
Low | Provisioning | ES3 - Natural biomass production |
Low | Regulatory and maintenance | ES4 - Biodiversity preservation |
Low | Regulatory and maintenance | ES8 - Erosion/sediment control |
Biophysical impacts
Level | Benefits | ||
---|---|---|---|
High | Mechanism of Water Retention | Slowing and reducing runoff | BP1 - Store runoff |
High | Mechanism of Water Retention | Slowing and reducing runoff | BP2 - Slow runoff |
High | Mechanism of Water Retention | Reducing runoff | BP6 - Increase infiltration and/or groundwater recharge |
Medium | Biophysical Impacts Resulting from Water Retention | Reducing pollution | BP9 - Intercept pollution pathways |
Low | Mechanism of Water Retention | Reducing runoff | BP7 - Increase soil water retention |
Low | Biophysical Impacts Resulting from Water Retention | Soil conservation | BP10 - Reduce erosion and/or sediment delivery |
Low | Biophysical Impacts Resulting from Water Retention | Creating habitat | BP12 - Create aquatic habitat |
Policy Objectives
Level | Benefits |
---|---|
High | PO9 - Take adequate and co-ordinated measures to reduce flood risks |
Medium | PO8 - Prevent groundwater status deterioration |
Low | PO1 - Improving status of biology quality elements |
Low | PO2 - Improving status of physico-chemical quality elements |
Low | PO3 - Improving status of hydromorphology quality elements |
Low | PO4 - Improving chemical status and priority substances |
Low | PO5 - Improving quantitative status |
Low | PO6 - Improving chemical status |
Low | PO7 - Prevent surface water status deterioration |
Low | PO11 - Better protection for ecosystems and more use of Green Infrastructure |
Low | PO12 - More sustainable agriculture and forestry |
Low | PO13 - Better management of fish stocks |
Low | PO14 - Prevention of biodiversity loss |
Related case studies
- Restoration of Amalvas and Žuvintas Wetlands, Lithuania
- Reconstruction and modernization of existing and construction of new reservoirs and ponds in rural areas of Poland
- Kylmäojankorpi forested wetland, Vantaa, Finland
- River Tolka constructed wetland and enhancements, Ireland
- Slowing the Flow at Pickering, UK
- Rural runoff attenuation in the Belford catchment, UK
- Horstergrub sediment management, Belgium
- Water supply and rehabilitation in Nagyszeksos-to Southern Hungary
- Landscape revitalisation program in Slovakia
- Recovery of dried out communities in Slovakia
- Holbina-Dunavat Restoration Project, Romania
- Restoration of water wells in the Miren-Kostanjevica Municipality, Slovenia
- Pollution Treatment on the Glinščica, Slovenia
- Water retention spaces, reforestation and grazing management in southern Portugal
- Restoration of hydrological system in the Middle basin of Biebrza Valley, Poland