Tiiu Valdmaa, Hannes Puu Changes and different environmental conditions in drainage maintenance plans Tiiu Valdmaa, Hannes Puu Agricultural Board / land improvement department 26.05.2016

The distribution of precipitation and evaporation in a year -50 -30 -10 10 30 50 70 90 110 jaan. veeb. märts apr. mai juuni juuli aug. sept. okt. nov. dets. Amount of water (mm/mounth) precipitation evaporation The difference between precipitation and evaporation Püsiva lumekatte lagunemine Seedingus Heinatööde algus Rukkilõikus Kapsakoristus harvesting Period We need to take some activities to

Land use So, as we believe you know, Land improvement is generally,…..ettekanne tekst…

Use of arableland 1800 + 5300. Eesti arengufond -Villem Vohu

Those responsible for the maintenance of drainage systems Owner of the land has a legal obligation to do drainage maintenance. Water association, responsible for the maintenance on ditches that are commonly used (185); The Estonian state is responsible for the maintenance on ditches and rivers (state ditches) whose catchment area is of over 10 km2 (5633,9 km). So, there are a bit over 5,5 thousand km of the commonly used ditches on a govermental funding. This year for the land improvement maintenance means were granted around 0, 66 milj Eur, which makse something about quater from the actual need. Tekst...

Drained lands in Estonia

Drainage near Tartu Lõunakeskus

Drainage systems, maintenance and renewal work In Estonia annually, is retrofitted or renewed drainage around 15,000 to 20,000 ha/year, this is somewhere 1,5 % of all drainage From 2005 to 2015. time period is around 9.5% of land reclamation systems will by renewed only. Reconstruction or renewal work is mostly carried out by the water associations (185)

Drainage works in 2015-(reconstruction of drainage) Ehituslubade arv ehitiste lõikes, 31.10.2015 seisuga