WFD compliant monitoring in Austria Workshop on laboratory basics and fundamentals of ISO Quality Management Standards March 21-22, 2018, Kyiv, Ukraine

1. WFD COMPLIANT MONITORING IN AUSTRIA
WORKSHOP
12 December, 2017, Tbilisi

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Good status
River Basin Management Plan
Programme of measures
Status & Trend assessment
Monitoring programmes
Characterisation – Risk assessment
Delineation of Water Bodies
Nomination of competent authorities
Identification of RBDs
6 years cycle
Review/update
Public participation
WFD Implementation Cycle

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AUSTRIAN WATER QUALITY MONITORING SYSTEM
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 Austria – key figures
 8.3 Mio. Inhabitants on ~84,000 km²
 96 % of territory in Danube
 1,170 mm Precipitation (average annual)
 62 % Mountainous terrain
 100 % Drinking water from GW
 130 l / person.day
 94 % linked to WWT Plant
Topography

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AUSTRIAN WATER QUALITY MONITORING SYSTEM
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 Nationwide Monitoring System
 since 1991
 Surface water
 285 permanent sites in running water
 site selection – main purpose monitoring of
chemical pollution
 Groundwater
 ~ 2000 permanent sites
 to give a representative overview

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SURFACE WATER MONITORING
Surveillance Monitoring
 Permanent monitoring network (285 sites)
 Mostly existing monitoring sites (data since
1992)
 3 different types of monitoring sites:
 Sites with high relevance
 Reference sites
 Additional sites
 Parameters based on WFD
Operational Monitoring
 Non-permanent monitoring network (~2440)
 3 different types of monitoring sites:
 Sites with high risk (chemical / hydromorphological)
 Sites for assessement of measures (after measures)
 International obligations
 sampling frequency - depends on method
(chemical and physical: 12/a. biological QE: 1/a)
 duration: 1–2 years depending on parameter
Investigative Monitoring (sites on demand)

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SURFACE WATER MONITORING
quality elements:
Pressures:
Fundamantal
Physicaland
chemical
Parameters
Pollutants
Phyto-
benthos
Makro-
phytes
MZB
Fish
Chemical pressures
nutrients x x (x) (x)
ogygen conditions x x (x)
temperature x (x) x
salinisation x (x) (x) x
acidification x (x) x (x)
pollutants x
relevant
pollutant
Hydromorphological pressures:
Morphological modifications: (x) x
only modification of stream bed x (x)
residual flow (x) (x) x
hydro peaking (x) (x) x
impoundment (x) x (x)
interruption of continuum (x) x
Most indicative
quality
elements in
operational
monitoring

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GROUNDWATER MONITORING
 About 2000 GW monitoring sites
(at least 1 monitoring point per GWB):
 GWB of porous media: ~ 1640
 GWB of karst and fractured rock: ~ 340
 Deep groundwater bodies: ~ 25
 GW-Monitoring is focused at the most sensitive
part of the GWB (as a rule, the upper zone of
shallow GWB)
 Sampling site density between 8 and 90
km²/site (depending on pressures and
importance).
Land use
Site density

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GROUNDWATER MONITORED PARAMETERS
 In total 129 parameters, grouped into two blocks:
 Block 1:
 26 important inorganic parameters with relevance to the environment, e.g. NO3, NO2, NH4, PO4, B,
alkali metal and alkaline earth metal (e.g. K, Ca, Mg);
 Block 2:
 the heavy metal group (e.g. As, Hg, Cd) and
 lightly volatile halogenated hydrocarbons (13),
 the broad group of pesticide substances (~80) and
 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).

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MONITORING OF WATER BODIES - LEGAL BASIS
 EU Water Framework Directive
 Austrian Federal Water Act
 General provisions for GW and SW monitoring
 Provisions on financing / covering of costs
 Austrian Ordinance on the Monitoring of the Status of Water Bodies
 Site selection / installation / documentation.
 Monitoring procedure and methods (Sampling, Laboratory analysis, Quality assurance).
 Parameters and monitoring frequency.
 Data flow and data processing.
 Outsourcing of services (sampling and analyses).

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SURVEILLANCE AND OPERATIONAL MONITORING - ACTORS
Coordination
Public authorities
Storage / coordination of data
Evaluation / interpretation of data
Private
Publication
Sampling and Analysis

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WFD compliant monitoring is fully paid by Public funds
Operative and surveillance Monitoring Investigative Monitoring
Installation of sampling sites
 100 % BMLFUW
Sampling and analysis
 2/3 BMLFUW,
 1/3 Provincial Governments
Data storage
 100 % BMLFUW
100 % Provincial
Governments
FUNDING OF MONITORING

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COSTS OF WATER MONITORING
Surveillance and Operative Monitoring - Surface and Groundwater
Year Surface water Groundwater
2007-2009 € 3.300.000 € 2.700.000
2010-2012 € 2.800.000 € 1.800.000
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