BORD – Creation of a Support System for Hydrographical Works on the Danube meant to assure Minimum Navigation Depths

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BASIC  PROJECT  DATA

Project ID: PA1A065

 

NEED  AND  ADDED  VALUE  FOR  THE  DANUBE  REGION  STRATEGY

This project was necessary for the accuracy of the land- and waterside measurements (hydrographic measurements) conducted by the River Administration of the Lower Danube.

 

OBJECTIVE(S)  OF  THE  PROJECT

The project was concerned with the completion of a network of markings (a system of reference) for the Romanian Danube and a catalogue with the precise coordinates of those markings, both in the Romanian reference system (necessary for the cadastre records) and in the European reference system (necessary for the changes on the electronic navigation charts).

Overall Objective of the project was to improve the safety of navigation on the Danube, in compliance with the European Directives and the Danube Commission’s recommendations, taking into account the anticipated increase of cargo and passenger traffic during the next 10-15 years.

Specific Objective: setting in place a network of geodesic landmarks in support of the topo-hydrographical works on the Danube, for the monitoring of the minimum navigation depths (hydrography) and the improvement of fairway maintenance activities (floating and costal signaling, topo-hydrographic surveys, dredging).

Aim of the project: to create a network of geodesic landmarks along the Romanian Danube sector, the Danube-Black Sea Canal and the Poarta Alba – Midia – Navodari Canal; a network to be used for the river bed dynamics monitoring and meant to provide exact data for the realization of accurate ENCs.

The following conditions for the created support geodesic landmarks network along the Danube were targeted:

  • to be the same standards as the National Geodesic Network;
  • to be adopted by the National Geodesic Triangulation Network;
  • to be adopted by the National Network of GPS points;
  • to be adopted by the National Network of High Precision Levelling.

A further aim of the project was that each landmark shall have coordinates in the following projection systems:

  • national system STEREO` 70, ellipsoid Krassovski and reference system Black Sea-Constanta 1975 and Black Sea-Sulina
  • UTM projection, ellipsoid WGS 84 and (ellipsoidal) geographic coordinates and also in the projection system of neighboring countries (Serbia, Bulgaria, Moldova and Ukraine – for comparison and data exchange)
  • ETRS 89 (European Terrestrial Reference System 1989) – ellipsoid GRS 80 (practically identical with WGS 84) [It is a standard reference system for the European countries – proposed by EUREF and EuroGeographics]. The coordinates in ETRS 89 system shall be obtained by connection to the National Geodesic Network (GPS) – Class A or/and Class B (from North of Danube area).

The aim of the project was to contribute to the improvement of the navigation safety on the Danube, in compliance with the recommendations of the Danube Commission in Budapest and with the envisaged increase of merchandise and passenger traffic during the next 10-15 years.

 

CONDUCTED  PROJECT  ACTIVITIES

The project consisted of the design, execution and monitoring of the works for a support system made up of a network of landmarks including 144 locations of 3 landmarks each – the witness landmark, the azimuth and the reference landmarks (144 witness landmarks; 144 azimuth landmarks; 144 reference landmarks).

This landmark system covers the whole Romanian sector of the Danube and the canals Poarta Albă – Midia Năvodari and Danube – Black Sea and it was connected to the national geodesic network. This network was designed to be compatible with the similar networks in the neighbouring countries. The landmarks shall serve as reference points for high precision hydrographic measurements.

As Beneficiary of the project, AFDJ assured the technical, administrative and financial management of the project by means of the Project Implementation Unit.

 

TRANSBOUNDARY  IMPACT

Romania and all other Danube riparian countries benefit from the improvement of the safety of navigation on the Romanian Danube. Further expected results are: reduction of periods of traffic restrictions on the Danube and last, but not least, development of transport networks among EU Member States.

 

PROJECT  BENEFICIARIES  /  TARGET  GROUPS

The results of this project benefit the following entities:

  • Users of navigable waterways from Romania and other countries.
  • The Administration of River Danube Harbours, Giurgiu “APDF Giurgiu”.
  • The Administration of Maritime Danube Harbours, Galati “APDM Galati”
  • The Administration of Navigable Canals, Constanta “ACN Constanta”
  • National Agency of Cadastre and Real Estate Publicity “ANCPI”
  • National Administration “Romanian Waters”-“Apele Romane”
  • National Forests Administration “ROMSILVA”

The project contributes to the improvement of the transport network of the EU Member States.

 

 

STATUS  AND  TIMEFRAME

Start date: 2011
End date: 2016

The project is already concluded.

 

 

FINANCING

Total budget: 1,106,080 EUR
EU funds: EUR 940,168 were funded by the Operational Sectoral Programme Transport (SOPT) 2007-2013 (ERDF)
National funds: EUR 165,912

 

 

PROJECT  TEAM

Project leader: River Administration of the Lower Danube Galati / Romania (website: www.afdj.ro)
Address: Portului Street, no. 32, Galati, Romania

 

 

EUSDR  EMBEDDING

 

 

EUSDR  COMPLIANCE

 

 

META  DATA

Data provided by: Cristina Cuc, Monica Patrichi (Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure / Romania) – 13.09.2011
Last update by: Dumitru Dorian (River Administration of the Lower Danube, Galati / Romania) – 18.08.2016

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