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Native Cottonwood Riparian Recovery

Removal of invasive Robinia pseudoacacia and replanting with native black poplar and white willow along 30 km of the middle Ebro, restoring shade, bank stability, and aquatic invertebrate habitat.

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Ebro Medio · HydroBASINS L8: 2080012950
Oct 2025 – ongoing
Gobierno de Aragón — Departamento de Agricultura / SEO / BirdLife Aragón / Fundación Iberdrola
280 ha · € 2.1M
Sub-basin location
HydroBASINS Level 8 polygon

Sub-basin boundary: HydroBASINS Level 8 (HYBAS_ID 2080012950) · Polygon is approximate at this zoom

Basin Health Impact
Before vs. projected after project contribution
Water QuantityNo signal
Before
44Low
Water Quality+3 pts
Before
58Risk
After
61Risk
Riparian Habitat+9 pts
Before
55Risk
After
64Risk
Composite BHS contribution+4 pts

Weighted: Quantity × 0.45 + Quality × 0.20 + Habitat × 0.35

Ground Validation
IoT sensors · Galileo/EGNOS certified
Tortosa Discharge Gauge
Discharge
Galileo ±0.4m
Sentinel-1 SAR coherence
Satellite: 125 m³/sIn-situ: 118 m³/s
94% agreement
Aragón Irrigation Soil Moisture
Volumetric Soil Moisture
Galileo ±0.5m
Sentinel-1 VV/VH backscatter
Satellite: 0.18 m³/m³In-situ: 0.17 m³/m³
94% agreement

In-situ readings from Galileo/EGNOS-certified IoT devices validate satellite-derived indices. High agreement confirms satellite-based BHS scoring for CSRD E3-4 discharge evidence.

Delivery metrics

Budget
€ 2.1M
Area
280 ha
Timeline
Oct 2025 – ongoing
Status
Planned
Delivered
Target: 30 km restoration corridor; 280 ha riparian woodland
Compliance exports
Two primary live clicks: project + compliance JSON
  • CSRD
    ESRS E3-4Water consumption, basin stress and restoration contribution evidence
  • CSDDD
    Article 8Adverse-impact mitigation programme linked to basin outcomes
  • SBTN
    Step 3 — QuantityFreshwater target-setting inputs at sub-basin level
  • TNFD
    LEAP — LocateNature-risk evidence for geolocated restoration activity
Using live score context
Using live basin score
Audit trail
Replay the evidence lineage for this stewardship project
  1. Project geography
    HydroBASINS Level-8 anchor and project centroid used for repeatable basin-level evidence generation.
    hybas=2080012950
center=-0.88000, 41.75000
  2. Evalscript versions
    Pinned, content-addressed evalscripts. Replayable byte-for-byte.
    sentinel2-bhs-combined-v1@static-snapshot
outputs=ndwi,mndwi,ndvi,ndmi,turbidity,chla,bare
  3. Source scenes
    Recent STAC scene IDs attached to the basin score run for audit replay.
    No STAC scene IDs attached
  4. Scoring function
    Basin sub-indices weighted via bhs-v0.5.0.
    quantity*0.45 + habitat*0.35 + quality*0.2
  5. Computation provenance
    Run signature stored with the exported project evidence pack.
    run=static-snapshot · at=2026-04-28T19:57:23.312Z

Partners

Operator
Gobierno de Aragón — Departamento de Agricultura
Partner
SEO / BirdLife Aragón / Fundación Iberdrola

Basin context

Ebro Basin
BHS 52 · 2 projects · 3.5M people
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