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At the meeting of scientific and technical board by the Nature Protection Minister held at the end of 2015 Hakob Galstyan, Head of State Environmental Inspection of Nature Protection Ministry, spoke about the environmental problems of the SHPPs. He particularly spoke about the environmental flow of the SHPPs water intake measurements and introduction of automatic management of water level, migration of fish species inherent to rivers, availability of fish passways and other issues.
As Information and Public Relations Department of Nature Protection Ministry informs, Water Resources Management Agency was proposed to draw up and to present within three upcoming months a package of proposals addressed to the companies developing SHPPs giving priority to the environmental flow of the SHPPs, water intake measurements and introduction of automatic management of water level, installing fish-protecting structures, to compensate damages caused to ecosystem and fish species with the funds of the SHPPs particularly recovering the water ecosystem and letting out proper number of fish into the river, reclaiming derivation pipelines etc.
“Environmental Impact Assessment Expert Center” SNCO was assigned to focus on the structure of the fish passway in the expertise of the SHPP construction projects, measures aimed at preserving flora and fauna species red-listed in Armenia.
The material was developed in the frames of “Supporting reforms in the sector of small hydro power plants through enabling a dialogue between civil society and the Ministry of Nature Protection for sustainable use of river ecosystems” supported by UNDP/GEF Small Grants Programme".
January 08, 2016 at 15:41