Status of the State of Environment (SoE) monitoring and reporting Republic of Macedonia Katerina...

Status of the State of Environment (SoE) monitoring

and reporting

Republic of Macedonia

Katerina Nikolovska Ljupka Dimovska Zajkov

Macedonian Envirnmental Information Center

West Balkan water workshopZagreb, 05 – 06 June 2008

• Law on Environment (framework act), 2005

• Rulebook on the content of the State of Environment Report, 2006

• Draft Law on Waters

Legal base

State of Environment Reports

• Annual Report on all environmental media• Yearly indicators report

• SOER –every fourth year• MEIC is responsible for the SoER production. So far, two

reports have been developed, available only in electronic form:

SOER, 1998

SOER, 2000

• Next SOER - 2010

Presentation of Water Data• Publication of yearbook for hydrological and water quality data• Publication of selected data on the Internet (www.moepp.gov.mk)

Process of indicators development

Phase I- Identification and implementation of the EEA Core Set of Indicators

• CARDS Regional Program 2002 – supported by EEA

• Identification and implementation of the EEA Core Set of Indicators for WB Countries

• Under the Project, the Republic of Macedonia developed fact sheets on 11 indicators - 4 indicators on water

Phase II - Prepared indicators• The Draft National Set of Environmental Indicators was prepared on the basis

of the EEA Core Set of Indicators, i.e. indicators developed during Phase I • Each indicator is presented by a fact sheet, produced in accordance with the

template adopted by the European Environmental Agency.

• Total - 26 indicators

– Water (5 indicators)

Code Name Harmonized with CSI /ЕЕА or other

indicators Status

ВОДА

MK НИ 018 Користење на водните ресурси CSI 018 Use of freshwater resources Prepared

MK НИ 019 Супстанции кој консумираат кислород во реките

CSI 019 Oxygen consuming substances in rivers

Prepared

MK НИ 020 Нутриенти во водите CSI 020 Nutrients in freshwater Prepared

MK НИ 021 Нутриенти во меѓудржавните, крајбрежните и морските води

CSI 021 Nutrients in transitional, coastal and marine waters

Not relevant

MK НИ 022 Квалитет на вода за капење CSI 022 Bathing water quality Prepared

MK НИ 023 Хлорофил во меѓудржавните, крајбрежните и морските води

CSI 023 Chlorophyll in transitional, coastal and marine waters

Not relevant

MK НИ 024 Пречистување на урбани отпадни води

CSI 024 Urban waste water treatment Prepared

• 12 Working Groups established under the decision of the Government

• Verification and update of draft indicators

• Extension of the list of environmental indicators by indicators specific on national level

• The total of 40 indicators developed expected to be adopted by the Government of the Republic of Macedonia by mid July this year

Phase III - Prepared indicators for water

– Water 7 indicators

10

Network partners

Current status of water monitoring and

reporting

Legal basis

Current legislation

Law on Environment and Nature Protection and Improvement (Official Gazette of the Republic of Macedonia No. 07)

Law on Waters (Official Gazette of the Republic of Macedonia No. 4/98)

Secondary legislation

New laws – harmonized with EU

Draft Law on waters– under adoption procedure in the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia and harmonized with the WFD, Nitrate Dir., Drinking Dir., Bathing Dir., Dangerous Sub., Dir., UWWTD, Sludge Dir etc.

Water Database of MEIC

Institutions collecting data:

Hydro-meteorological Administration Hydrological state of watercourses

Rivers flow, water level of Ohrid, Prespa and Dojran Lakes

Water level and volume in artificial lakes - accumulations

Quality status of rivers in the Republic of Macedonia RIMSYS (RIver Monitoring SYStem) – data on 20

rivers in the Republic of Macedonia

Ground water Level and temperature

Water Database of MEIC

Hydro-biological Institute - Ohrid Quality status of Ohrid

and Prespa Lakes and their tributaries

Pelagic and littoral zone Physical, chemical and

biological monitoring

Public Health Institute Sanitary safety of

watercourses Micro-biological analysis

and physical & chemical indicators

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Struga

O hrid

Resen

LakePrespa

A L B A N IA

M A C E D O N IA

G R E E C E

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Sampling stationsLocal pollution investigation

Transects of cores

Tushemisht

St. Naum

Pestani

Radozda

Lin

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2 3

14

5

8

9

7

LakeO hrid

River Sateska

River Koselska

River Velgoska

River Golema

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Industrial Wastewater Monitoring

Central Laboratory of Environment Analysis of wastewater from industrial

facilities

Industrial facilities that conduct self-monitoring ОКТА Alkaloid

Cadastre of polluters for wastewater

The general river monitoring strategy in Republic of Macedonia is based on international experience and modern concepts. The River Monitoring System Project (RIMSYS), a cooperation project between the governments of the Republic of Macedonia and Switzerland, is designed to revitalise the 40 year old national river monitoring system in Macedonia.

The project objectives are to establish good operating practices in the areas of water

discharge measurement, water sampling, chemical analysis, and the processing and publishing of the monitoring data.

Objectives of RIMSYS The main goal of RIMSYS is to provide • basis for an effective implementation of water

protection measures • and for successful river management in Macedonia.

The ongoing monitoring of rivers will allow the authorities in Macedonia to maintain

degree of control over the hydrological system, to identify sources of current and potential

pollution, to point out the ecological and, in the long term,

the economic drawbacks of water pollution and habitat destruction.

Monitoring Stations

RIMSYS monitoring network

• 20 monitoring stations at the main rivers

• equipped with modern measuring instruments

• teletransmission of data to the Institute (HMS)

• calibration tools

Indicators included in the measurement and analysis activities of the RIMSYS Project

a1. Hydrological Parameters Water Level, Water Discharge - Flow, Suspended materials, Width cross-section,

a2. Appearance, Organoleptic and Physical Parameters

Water and Air Temperature, Odour, Colour, Oil and other flying liquids, pH -value, Redox potential, Specific Electroconductivity, Turbidity

a3. Mineralization - residues on evaporation

Total Residue / Fixed and Volatile / , Filterable Residue - Dissolved Matters / Fixed - mineral and Volatile - organic / , Nonfilterable residue-Suspended Matters / Fixed - mineral and Volatile - organic /

a4. Parameters -Oxygen Regime and Nutrients / Eutrophication /

Oxygen regime Parameters: Dissolved oxygen - now, Water oxygen saturation (saturation - supersaturation), Biochemical Oxygen Demand for 5 days, Chemical Oxygen Demand - Permanganate or dichromate; Eutrofication Parameters:Ammonia ion, Nitrates and Nitrites ion, Phosphate (ortopfospfates ion); Future planning: Total Nitrogen and Total Phosphorus

a5. Anions and Cations Bicarbonate, Carbonate, Hydroxide, (Calculed on Alkalinity - p and m ), Chloride, Sulphate, Calcium, Magnesium, Sodium, Potassium, Hardness (total, carbonate and noncarbonate );

a6. Harmful Substances - Heavy Metals Total Iron, Manganese, Lead, Zinc, Cadmium, Chromium, Copper, Nickel, Cobalt, Aluminium, Future planning: Arsenic, Mercury and another hydride metals, Cyanides, Phenols, Sulfides ,

a7. Harmful Substances - Organic Micropollutants

Aldrin, Dieldrin, DDT, DDE, DDD, Endrin, Endosulfan 1, Endosulfan 2, Heptachlor, α-BHC, β-BHC, γ-BHC / lindan / , δ.BHC, Metoxichlor, Malation, Paration, Methomyl, Atrazine, Alachlor, Folpet and other

a8. Saprobiological Parameters Saprobity Index of Pantel and Buck, Saprobiological rank of Liebman

a9. Microbiological Parameters Microbiological Pollution MPN No/100 ml , Thermo-tolerant coliforms, Faecal streptococci

a10. Radioactivity Total β-activity

Environmental Laboratory

• The laboratory are equipment for the chemical and bacteriological analysis of water samples (spectrophotometer, TOC-analyser, autoclave, Kjeldahl distillation system, filtration system), with the related computer hardware and

software.

Data Management

Data Management System: HydroPro TM • Reliable System• Modules for hydrometry

and water quality data

Data Management

Data Analysis

Data Editing

Requested information delivery year delivery remarks

RIVERS

Station characteristics-physical

2001 CDR 20 m.s. presented R, B

2002 CDR 20 m.s. presented R, B

2003 CDR 19 m.s., R, B, L, F

2004 CDR 19 m.s., R, B, L, F

2005 CDR 19 m.s., R, B, L, F

2006 CDR 19 m.s., R, B, L, F

2007 CDR 19 m.s., R, B, L, F

Pressure data

2002 CDR with CORINE Land Cover






EWN Basic quality data

2001 CDR aggregate data for 8 determinants / 20 m.s.







EWN Impact quality data

2001 CDR disaggregate data for 5 determinants/ 20 m.s.







Requested information delivery year delivery remarks

Water avability and abstarction

water Balance 2008 CDR 4RBstreamflow 2008 CDR Eionet stationprecipation 2008 CDR Eionet stationWAB Annual 2008 CDR Eionet station

emissions to water Annual 2008 CDR in progress

Problems in EUROWATERNET Process

Institutional overlapping of competencies

Untimely data delivery by institutions performing water monitoring

Insufficiently developed ground water monitoring

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