ProCleanLakes´s ambition is to develop tailored nature-based solutions for the project´s demonstration lakes (Trichonis, Brates, Langvatnet) which, however, will be transferable and scalable for other European natural lakes. As the first step of this activity, we have created a report that maps the existing solutions which can be used for remediation and protection of polluted lakes. This report will facilitate the development of the new solutions in demonstration lakes of ProCleanLake’s project and will become a part of the final Action Plan for restoration and remediation of European natural lakes. The document is primarily focused on Nature-Based Solutions (NbS). By[...]

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In September, a survey was conducted to assess fish communities in three post-mining lakes, including Lake Medard, a key monitoring site for the ProCleanLakes project.

As part of the assessment of the ecological status and the pressures and stressors affecting each of the six ProCleanLakes demonstration (Brates, Trichonis, Langvatnetv lakes) and monitoring (Vransko, Medard, Zaghen lakes) sites, a pre-monitoring and sampling campaign took place at each lake between September and November 2024. The campaigns started at Langvatnet Lake in the first week of September to avoid the extremely low temperatures of the Norwegian autumn and winter and completed at Zaghen in Romania in the first week of November. At each lake, demonstration- and monitoring-responsible partners spent two days in the field measuring basic physicochemical parameters[...]

Local community expressed interested and support on the ProCleanLakes initiative on the protection and restoration of the water and biodiversity of Trichonis Lake.

On the 25th and 26th of June of 2024, the ProCleanLakes Consortium met in Vienna for a two-day meeting to discuss the next steps to be done for a successful development of the project goals. Besides, six lakes across Europe which will serve as experimental sites for the development of innovative solutions for protection and remediation of ENL, were introduced. ProCleanLakes project has set high-standard objectives to be implemented during the project lifetime and will have a significant impact towards the protection and restoration of natural lakes. ProCleanLakes proposes a dynamic and flexible initiative, with learning by observe and[...]