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Regulation of the Danube River Waterway at Sotin from 1321 rkm to 1325 rkm

Regulation of the Danube River Waterway at Sotin

Source of funding

OPCC

Completion phase:

Project implementation

Total eligible costs (EUR)

5.786.443,03

EU grant (EUR)

4.918.476,58

Date of conclusion of the contract

01.10.2020

Project completion

31.12.2023

Project description

This project proposes a solution for coast protection in the form of control facilities that promise the best results and are well suited to the surroundings. The construction of the facilities proposed within this project will narrow the flow profile, leading to faster currents and reduced sedimentation, thereby preventing the formation of sandbars and providing favorable depths for navigation.

This project will construct the following control facilities:
• transverse groyne 21-D/1,
• transverse groyne 22-D/1,
• longitudinal structure 22-23-D/1.

The longitudinal structure and the transverse groynes will fix the projected regulatory line and will work to narrow the flow profile downstream by forming a new coastline. In this way, positive effects will be achieved in the water course, and by reducing the width, more favorable depths required for navigation will be obtained. Likewise, moving the coastline will protect the high bank threatened by erosion.

Project goal

Regulation of the Danube River Waterway at Sotin from 1321 rkm to 1325 rkm yields the following results:

  1. Establishing a greater degree of year-round navigation safety, especially during the summer months when the danger of stranding is more pronounced due to low navigable water levels, and the increased traffic of cargo and passenger vessels. This will improve the navigability conditions on the core network (Danube river) of the Rhine-Danube TEN-T Corridor.
  2. Establishing preconditions for further development of inland waterway transport in the Republic of Croatia. The regulation of the waterway at Sotin, in parallel with a number of other planned or incipient investments (modernization of ports in Slavonski Brod and Osijek, construction of a winter shelter in Opatovac), will enable the growth of river traffic (transport of goods and passengers), an environmentally friendly form of transport encouraged by the EU.