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Raw data Conversion(s) Information
• RWS has to report various data because of legislation:
– Water Framework Directive (WFD – 2000/60/EC )
– Bathing Water Directive (76/160/EEC )
– Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (UWWTD – 91/271/EEC )
– Drinkwater Directive (98/83/EC)
– Nitrates Directive
– Groundwater Directive
- Flood Directive
- Marine Strategy Framework Directive
- Others
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Raw data Conversion(s) Information
• RWS has to report various data because of legislation:
– Water Framework Directive (WFD – 2000/60/EC )
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• Status and trends
• Compliance checking
• Evaluation of measures
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And now in slow motion…
• RWS waterbodies (WB)
– One reporting point per WB
– NB: reporting point ≠ measuring point
• Chemical analyses
• Biological analyses
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WFD
• Status and trendanalyses
– Compliance checking
• The WFD is meant to improve the ecological and chemical quality of
waterbodies.
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Ecological status
• Biological parameters
• ‘Other pollutants’ relevant at river basin level
– Compliance with national EQS
• Physico-chemical parameters supporting interpretation of biological
data
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Ecological status
• Biological parameters
– Every waterbody is defined by its watertype.
– For each watertype specific environmental quality ratio’s (EQR)
for every biological parameter.
– Each watertype has specific ‘maatlatten’ (yardsticks / EQS)
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Ecological status
• ‘Other pollutants’ (chemical parameters)
– Compliance checking to national EQS, bad or good status
• Physico-chemical parameters
– Per watertype different EQR’s and ‘maatlatten’
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Acknowledgements
• Henny van den Heuvel (www.rws.nl, for providing the various maps)
• Roel Venema (www.rws.nl)
• Gerard Stroomberg (www.riwa.org, for providing the sheets
containing ‘yardsticks’)
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Editor's Notes
It’s very important tp understand that I’ll only go into the monitoring and reporting done by RWS!
I’ll focus on the last three parts of the information cycle. But having said that, I’ll briefly go through the various steps to come up to the reporting part…