Dam Removal Europe Map

Dam Removal Europe has created the most complete database on removed barriers in Europe to evaluate the implementation advancement of EU policies and to analyze the progress of this river restoration measure continent-wide. All the removed barriers are shown on the interactive map below. Data are color-coded based on the year of the removal and the information provided per case includes also the name of the barrier and its coordinates.

Dam Removal Europe interactive map of removed barriers in Europe.

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Blattfisch
Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Regions and Tourism

Contrat de Rivière Semois-Chiers
L’environnement en Wallonie – SPW

Water Development Department of Cyprus

Action for the River Kennet
Cain Bio-Engineering
Calder Rivers Trust
Don Catchment Rivers Trust
Environment Agency
Hertfordshire County Council
Herts & Middlesex Wildlife Trust
Ouse & Adur Rivers Trust
Severn Rivers Trust
Shropshire Wildlife Trust
South Cumbria Rivers Trust
South East Rivers Trust
The Rivers Trust
The Trent Rivers Trust
Tyne Rivers Trust
Wessex Rivers Trust
Westcountry Rivers Trust
Wild Trout Trust

Estonian Environment Agency (instead of Ministry of Environment of Estonia)

Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment (ELY Centres)
South Karelian Foundation for Recreation Areas
WWF Finland

“Data till 2021 could include naturally removed barriers”

Agence de l’Eau Artois-Picardie
Agence de l’Eau Rhône Méditerranée Corse
Agence de l’eau Seine-Normandie
BIEF – Caricaie
Bretagne Grands Migrateurs
ERN
Fédération du Nord pour la pêche et de la protection du milieu aquatique (Pêche59)
Fédération du Pas de Calais pour la pêche et la protection du milieu aquatique (Pêche62)
Fédération de Pêche des Pyrénées-Atlantiques (Pêche64)
Ministry of Ecological Transition
Parc naturel régional du Haut-Jura
Syndicat Interdépartemental d’Aménagement du Guiers et de ses Affluents (SIAGA)
Syndicat Mixte des Basses Vallées Angevines et de la Romme (SMBVAR)
Syndicat Mixte des bassins Bandiat-Tardoire (SYMBA)
Syndicat Mixte Interdépartemental de la Vallée de la Lèze (SMIVAL)

BUND Naturschutz
Institut für Binnenfischerei e.V. Potsdam Sacrow (IfB)
Regierungspräsidium Gießen
WWF Germany
Zweckverband “Bevorzugtes Erholungsgebiet Bad Wünnenberg/Büren“

Loughs Agency

Pasaules Dabas Fonds – WWF Latvia

Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Lithuania

WWF Adria

Limburg Water Authority

Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE)
Bærum Municipality
Norconsult AS

Kazimierz Wielki University
Regional Water Management Authority in Krakow (RZGW Krakowie)
Regional Water Management Authority in Rzeszów (RZGW Rzeszów)

Associação Natureza de Portugal (ANP) & WWF Portugal
Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e das Florestas (ICNF)
Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre (MARE)
Rios Livres GEOTA – Grupo de Estudos de Ordenamento do Território e Ambiente
University of Evora

Forth Rivers Trust
Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA)

WWF Slovakia
Slovak Water Management Enterprise S.E.

AEMS – Ríos con Vida (instead of Rios con Vida)
Agencia Catalana del Agua (ACA) (instead of Catalonia Water Agency)
Basque Water Agency (URA)
Cantabrian River Basin Authority
Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir
Duero River Basin Authority
Gestion Ambiental de Navarra (GAN-NIK)
Gipuzkoa Provincial Council
Guadalquivir´s Deputy Commissioner
Instituto de Hidráulica Ambiental ‘IHCantabria’
Jucar River Basin Authority
LIFE DIVAQUA (instead of DIVAQUA)
MITECO
Segura River Basin Authority
Xunta De Galicia-Conselleria De Medio Ambiente

Jönköpings Fiskeribiologi AB
Kalmar County Board
Jönköpings län County Board instead of Länsstyrelsen i Jönköpings län
Västernorrland County Board instead of Länsstyrelsen Västernorrland
Norrbotten County Board
Örebro County Board
Rewilding Sweden
Sveriges Sportfiske- och Fiskevårdsförbund
Swedish Transport Administration (STA)
Västerbotten County Board

Aargau Canton
Canton du Jura, Office de l’environnement
WWF Switzerland

WWF Ukraine

Caring for Welsh Rivers / Afonydd Cymru
Natural Resources Wales
South East Wales Rivers Trust
West Wales Rivers Trust

Dam Removal Europe annual reports

Trends on barrier removal in Europe and summary statistics are highlighted on an annual basis in the Dam Removal Europe reports since 2020:

Dam Removal Europe Database

The DRE collects information also on upcoming barrier removals in Europe, as well as data on incidents of natural collapses and of accidents/fatalities caused by barriers (aka drowning machines). DRE databases are available upon reasonable request for research purposes. No essential information is shared under any circumstances. DRE currently owns databases on:

1. 1. Removed barriers
  2. Upcoming barrier removals
  3. Naturally collapsed barriers
  4. Drowning machines following the US example (i.e., low-head dams that are especially dangerous due to the formation of an inescapably strong subsurface current (submerged hydraulic jump))

AMBER Barrier Tracker

AMBER Barrier Tracker* is a free and user-friendly app that allows users to report the location, features, and status of river barriers and to upload photos of these structures. All this information can be used to pinpoint obsolete barriers and help prioritize their potential removal. It was launched in April 2018 during the World Fish Migration Day within the framework of the EC-funded Horizon 2000 “Adaptive Management of Barriers in European Rivers” (AMBER) project to raise awareness among citizens about the different types of riverine barriers and to be used as a tool towards an ever-growing inventory of barriers fragmenting European rivers with continuously increasing accuracy (see interactive map; Mouchlianitis 2022 – AMBER Barrier Tracker: Using Citizen Science to Track Barriers in Europe).

* AMBER Barrier Tracker app is available on Google Play and App Store

Help us tracking dams

With the app, called “Barrier tracker”, you can record new barriers into a database. Using the app in the helps with gathering of more data and greater spatial coverage of records than would have been possible using conventional surveys. Typical data gathered includes a photo of the barrier, the location of the barrier and the height of the barrier.

AMBER Barrier Tracker app is available on Google Play and App Store

Promo material, created by Dam Removal Europe, is freely available in multiple European languages.

Download barrier tracker posters

Data collection occurs on a regular basis. You are welcome to report a barrier removal by contacting Foivos Mouchlianitis at: foivos@fishmigration.org. Any information provided will be used only to update DRE database and map. We thank you in advance for your support.