Elbe river basin district
The RBD same (same FGE) is a part of the implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive defined river basin which the catchment area of the internal same and the outer same together umliegendem coastal waters comprising. Among other things, this includes the entire catchment area of the Kiel Canal .
Key data
Key data of the river basin district:
- Area (surface catchment area): 148,268 km²
- Length of the Elbe: 1090 km
- Source: in the Giant Mountains (near the Polish border), Czech Republic
- Estuary : Elbe estuary , Germany
- Estuarine Sea : North Sea
- Average discharge volume (MQ): approx. 870 m³ / s near Cuxhaven
- most important tributaries: Moldau , Havel , Saale , Mulde , Schwarze Elster , Eger
- Population: approx. 24.5 million
- Shares: Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Austria
- International coordination: International Commission for the Protection of the Elbe (IKSE)
Adjacent units
| Eider | Schlei / Trave Warnow / Peene | |
| Weser |
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| Rhine | Danube |
National
Austria
In Austria, the Elbe region only includes small areas in Lower Austria that drain over the Vltava into the Czech Republic. The area extends in the northwestern Waldviertel near Gmünd and Litschau , over 55 km from the border with the Mühlviertel to the northern tip of Austria near Haugschlag . It forms (abbreviation: ELB) one of the 8 national river basin districts (planning areas) of the National Water Management Plan (NPG).
Key data:
- Area (surface catchment area): 921 km² (0.006% of the FGE, 1.1% in Austria)
- Length of the water network (catchment areas ≥10 km 2 ): 425 km
- Average flow rate (MQ): Lainsitz: 4 m³ / s at the border
- most important tributaries: Lainsitz , Maltsch (<500 km 2 )
- Standing water (lakes> 0.5 km 2 ): 2
- Population: approx. 0.045 million (0.2% of the FGE, 0.5% in Austria)
- Ecoregion: central low mountain range (No. 9)
- Average precipitation / evaporation / runoff [mm / year]: 750/486/260
- Land use ( CORINE ): built- up area 4.0% (37.1 km 2 ), agricultural area : 44.4% (408.5 km 2 ); Forest and near-natural area : 51.1% (469.9 km 2 ); Water and wet areas : 0.5% (4.6 km 2 )
- Bilateral and multilateral agreements and cooperations: Austrian-Czech Border Waters Commission
Web links
National:
- Map of the German FGE (Annex 2 to the Water Resources Act)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c National Water Management Plan 2009 - NGP 2009 . BMLFUW-UW.4.1.2 / 0011-I / 4/2010, 1 General description of the characteristics of the river basin districts , 1.1.3 Elbe , p. 20 f. ( pdf ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Lebensministerium.at)
- ↑ River catchment area and river basin district , Lebensministerium.at → Water → A plan for our waters → Implementation of the Water Framework Directive .
- ↑ Location and delimitation of groundwater bodies . Work card, WFD working group "Groundwater" (status October 2002); Graphics: Umweltbundesamt GmbH, Vincze, October 2002, on behalf of the BMLFUW; Data source: Water quality survey in Austria, Federal Ministry f. Land, u. Forestry, environment and water management; Offices of the state governments
