Project Danube WATER integrated management WATER MIS

Project “Danube WATER integrated management” – WATER MIS ETC 166 Project Manager: Mary-Jeanne Adler, Ph. D mj. adler@hidro. ro; mj. adler@yahoo. com; mj. adler@mmediu. ro www. danube-water. eu

Project Objectives • Improving water monitoring and the warnings system, environmental data dissemination on the Romanian-Bulgarian border counties; • Processing and conditioning the liquid organic wastes radioactively contaminated from the nuclear plants Cernavodǎ and Kozloduy.

Project Activities • Monitoring, data processing and forecasting water quantity and quality, under the European Commission standards for a better implementation of the European legislation in the water field (the Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC, the Flood Directive 2007/60/CE) Increasing capacity for data and warning dissemination at the border areas.

Project Activities 1. Informational System for Water and Environment Management 2. Expert System-DSS Danube WATER automated stations 3. Communication System in border area 4. Warning System in border area 5. Activation the Waters’ Rapid Response Center

Project Activities • • Preventing • floods disasters and pollution accidents intervention Modernizing the informational systems: * hydrologic - HIS and for * Water quality – CIS for the RO-BG Danube

Project Activities Danube WATER- PARTIAL IMPLEMENTED UPGRADED OR REPLACE EXISTING EQUIPMENT: - 14 HYDROLOGICAL STATIONS on Danube - 60 HYDROGEOLOGICAL STATIONS - 12 GEODETIC LANDMARKS - HARMONIZED GEODETIC SYSTEM - DATA COMMUNICATION - DATA ANALYSIS - DANUBE HIDROLOGIC FORECASTING - EARLY WARNING SYSTEM

Joint Danube monitoring

Flood and pollution forecasting system • Flood and accidental pollution protection by increasing forecasting capacity by automate monitoring, data processing and common models application (hydrological and hydraulic) • Operational geodatabase as support for models application and data/information dissemination in the border area Hydrograms Stage-discharge rating courve Hydraulic models Hydrographs Liguria Region 8 Gumbel Reduced Variable Data processing Regional TCEV 0. 999 0. 998 6 Simulated Discharge 4 0. 995 0. 99 0. 98 Confidence interval (95%) 0. 95 0. 90 2 0. 80 0. 50 0 -2 0. 0 2. 0 4. 0 6. 0 8. 0 Simulated Discharge for given T/ Simulated Discharge for T = 2. 9 years 10. 0

PREVENTION, INTERVENTION, REHABILITATION: ACTIONS IMPLEMENTED BY BASIN MANAGEMENT PLAN AND FLOOD AND ACCIDENTAL POLLUTION PLANS

Danube WATERAT THE END OF IMPLEMENTATION WARNING SYSTEM PREPARATION INTERVENTION REHABILITATION Flood monitorng and flood prevention plan Planning resources Rapid Intervention Centers LOSS EVALUATION INSTRUMENTS

DSS Development IT-specialists: Architecture: Integration Communication Management End-user: Researchers: Model main processes; Define resolution, scale and levels of Knowledge detail. d an tem s le ab ly sy us ild end Bu r-fri e us Int e co grat de e mo and de ls System architecture; Technology Software technology and implementation. Select policyrelevant research Deliver policy context; Define problems, functions, End-use and usage of the Platform

Steps in policy-relevant integrated modelling Translation of scientific knowledge into information relevant for policy-makers • Definition of policy themes, problems, options and indicators • Appropriate model selection • Model integration • Translation of scientific knowledge into information relevant for the policy-maker • Calibration and validation

Danube WATER: long term planning – Implementation of WFD Submit Interim Report on Implementation Revise Overview of Significant Water issues Update RBMP Evaluate 1 st and Prepare 2 nd Period Implement Program of Measures Set up Environmental Objectives Assess current status Establish Monitoring Programs 2004 2015 2013 2006 2012 Public Participation Gap Analysis 2009 Develop River Basin Management Plans Set up Program of Measures for River Basin Districts

Project Results • Joint methodologies, joint standards for water monitoring and Joint aligned databases with interfaces for data exchange and data sharing with the large public, as demanded by INSPIRE Directive and will be shared with the ICPDR and the upstream countries. Warnings will be elaborated in case of floods, low flows and accidental pollution for the relevant actors in the border area, increasing the public awareness through information campaigns on the environmental protection and management in the cross-border area. Finally, a revision of the bilateral agreement for data exchange will be provided.

Target Groups • Large communities in flood risk areas, water management authorities, ICPDR, border counties, NPP Cernavodă -Romania and Kozloduy - Bulgaria

Stakeholders’ involvement

PARTNERS: PP 1 - Ministry of Environment and Climate Change – Department for Waters, Forests and Fisheries PP 2 - National Administration “Apele Romane” PP 3 - National Institute of Hydrology and Water Resources PP 4 - Civil Engineering Technical University, Bucharest PP 5 - Environmental Protection Agency PP 6 - Research Institute in Chemistry PP 7 - Polytechnic University, Bucharest PP 8 - Research Institute for Nuclear Research, Pitesti PP 9 - Ministry of Environment and Waters, Sofia PP 10 - National Institute Of Meteorology and Hydrology PP 11 - Executive Agency for Exploration and Maintenance of the Danube River, Russe PP 12 - Executive Protection Agency, Sofia PP 13 - Institute of Research of Nuclear Energy, Sofia

Stakeholders’ involvement – primary schools, teachers and parents All participants got a project brochure about Pic Zbarlit and his adventures with Sturio.

Summary: challenges taken to … By modelling tool integrated into DSS it is/was possible to • develop unified database for Low Danube floodplain, • assess territorial policies, • predict certain processes, • understand spatial and time related impacts of measures, • run scenarios, • publish results in easy-to understand way – Portal development

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