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Project Långåljusnan is coming to an end

The remaining part of Långåljusnan's currents in the direction of Lossendammen will be repaired this summer.
The stretch is approximately nine kilometers from the inlet in Lake Ulften and reaches the western border of the fisheries conservation area in Kolbenshån. The interventions through waterway cleaning and water regulation for power production have greatly changed the original character of the route. Now boulders are returned to the supply, rapids, current generators and still water are created, deep hollows are formed and increase the water volume, among other things, to counteract water shortages in dry years. Insect life is favored.

The project budget amounts to half a million kroner, half of which has been granted in the form of the power industry's construction funds, 200 000 kronor have been granted by the government grant for restoration and biotope conservation in watercourses, the so-called LOVA initiative. Långåfisket invests the rest of its own funds plus extensive unpaid work.

summer 2021 carried out by Per-Ola Persson, Långåfiskets quality manager, and Elias Hammarlund, culture manager on the board, an inventory of the route and prepared proposals for measures. It is on that basis that the contract is carried out this summer.

– The entire investment that Långå fish conservation association has made in the Långåljusnan's stream stretches is the basis for biological diversity and for the original fish species, says Helge Jonsson, who is chairman of the management group for the project. In the long run, this means that there will be natural reproduction of trout and grayling, which is a quality goal in Långåfisket, he says.

The Långåljusnan project has been ongoing since then 2015.