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| Objectives River Management Due to the river-regulation and it´s resulting deepening of the riverbed, River Enns was disconnected from the floodplains and its sidearms. Further consequences were the reduction of river-related alluvial forests and loss of the river dynamics. As a long term effect, many of the remaining typical river-habitats are now threatened to vanish because of succession, siltation and/or lowering of groundwater levels. Hence, the main objectives of the project is the river basin development, which shall be achieved by
River Enns – typical, actual and target river-status  Due to the low gradient of the valley ´Ennstal´, the river Enns once flowed through the valley in large meanders. 
To increase the proportion of agricultural land in the 19th century, the river was regulated, meanders were cut-off and large areas were drained. Consequently, bed degradation occurred, river dynamics and river-related habitats were lost.  Following were the consequences of river regulation and bed degradation:
As a long term effect many of the remaining habitats that were formed by natural river dynamics in the past are threatened to be lost by succession, siltation and/or lowering of groundwater levels.  The main objectives are the recovery of the remaining alluvial habitats, the protection of alluvial forests by connecting existing stocks to the fluvial dynamics, the development of alluvial forests by changing stocks of non-adequate forests respectively the development of new forests and raising public awareness for the project. Achieved results:
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