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Solution to Europe s Broken Rivers Identified in Research Involving UCC
17th December 2020
An EU project involving University College Cork (UCC) team of researchers has identified thousands of large dams and a myriad of weirs, culverts, fords, sluices and ramps
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Europe has some of the most fragmented rivers in the world with at least 1.2 million instream barriers, according to a newly published study.
An EU project involving University College Cork (UCC) team of researchers has identified thousands of large dams and a myriad of weirs, culverts, fords, sluices and ramps as the main culprit of fragmentation .
It calculates that there are at least 0.74 barriers per kilometre of stream in Europe, and has recorded same in what it describes as the first comprehensive pan- European barrier inventory .