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Discharge regime:

Rapidly varying flows can be generated in a hydropower facility (hydro peaking). This gives rise to conditions that are deleterious to watercourse hydromorphology and aquatic biota downstreams, thus jeopardizing the goal of achieving good ecological status or potential. Hence, such artificial discharge regimes should be avoided for ecological reasons. However, if artificial discharge regimes cannot be avoided entirely, the ecological status of the water body/water bodies affected can still be improved through operational modifications (e.g. downstream “buffer” reservoirs) that attenuate the volume and frequency of artificially generated abrupt waves and avoid unduly precipitous water level fluctuations.