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Recreation lake Albrechtsberg

Tasks definition
  • Upgrading of existing lake to significant recreation place for the local inhabitants and guests (bathing, skating)
  • Improvement of water quality
  • Intensification of positive ecological functions
  • Integration into surrounding cultural landscape
  • Improvement of retention and discharge abilities during the heavy rain
Solution
  • Installing of wooden stairs and access areas for bath guests
  • Arrangement of sand beach reserved for children
  • Construction of beach cabin with sanitary areas, changing room and buffet
  • Shoreline near to the nature and arrangements for better water quality
  • Construction of a dam designed to serve as retention of surface waters from surrounding fields
  • Planting of domestic wooden vegetation suitable for the area
  • Rehabilitation of dam wall and construction of emergency outflows
Services
  • Initial consultation in line with Lower Austrian Landscape Fund
  • Design for water right permit
  • Detail design, procurement, inspection report
  • Technical and commercial supervision
  • Organisation of common planting measures together with resident inhabitants
Facts
  • Client: Municipality Albrechtsberg
  • Funding body: Lower Austrian Lanscpape Fund, Working committees Waters and Tourism
  • Project period: Autumn 1998 - Spring 2000
  • Construction costs: approx. € 60.000,–
  • Contact person: Ulrike Dirr, MSc