Conducted field works revealed that Grodziec Slaski ring road blocked or at least radically limited to amphibians possibility of the access to the water bodies from areas which are situated north from completed road. Number of passages designed for animals is insufficient in the case of amphibians. Despite the fact that flyovers lenght is about 550 m on the stretch of about 5 km, the distance between them come to about 350 to more than 1000 m, so the possibility that amphibians find their way to passages under flyovers is small. According to experience of western countries, pasages for amphibians should be set every 50 m. That option was not mentioned by the authors of the environmental papers (EKOSYSTEM SLASK) – despite the fact that environmental impact assessment demonstrate the occurence of amphibians in the investition area, aspect of that animals migration and necessity of the protection of they migration patterns was passed over. It was stated that constructed flyovers will provide safety to all migrating animals.


Environmental impact assessment was made by Ekosystem Slask. Voivode approved EIA and stated that protections for fauna correspond to real needs.



Animals die during building works. They fell in large numbers to earthworks and were run over by cars on building site.

Dead frogs – drowned in sump.


Amphibians took form the one of the sumps – noticeable dead specimens.


No comment.




Further information:

1 . EIA contractor: EKOSYSTEM SLASK Myslowice, http://www.eko-slask.pl/kontakt.html tel.:(32) 316-41-09

2. Approving local authorities: Silesian Voivode tel.: 032 255 49 67 (correspondence undersigned by following voivodes: Mr Tomasz Pietrzykowski, Mr Wiesław Maśka, Mr Artur Warzocha)

3. Provincial Nature Conservator in Katowice, simultaneously member of State Council for Nature Conservation – Ms Jolanta PRAŻUCH tel.: 0-32 2077 583

4. Contractor: SKANSKA S.A. http://www.skanska.pl/ tel.: 22 561 30 00; 0-22 653 84 01

5. Investor: Katowice Dept. of the General Management of State Roads and Highways: director Mr Zbigniew KOTLAREK, assistant director Mr Marian SOBULA and Mr Wojciech ŻUREK tel.: (32) 258-62-81


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