NOVANA. National Monitoring and Assessment Programme for the Aquatic and Terrestrial Environments Subtitle: Programme Description – Part 2
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National Environmental Research Institute Ministry of the Environment . Denmark NOVANA National Monitoring and Assessment Programme for the Aquatic and Terrestrial Environments Programme Description – Part 2 NERI Technical Report, No. 537 [Tom side] National Environmental Research Institute Ministry of the Environment . Denmark NOVANA National Monitoring and Assessment Programme for the Aquatic and Terrestrial Environments Programme Description – Part 2 NERI Technical Report, No. 537 2005 Data sheet Title: NOVANA. National Monitoring and Assessment Programme for the Aquatic and Terrestrial Environments Subtitle: Programme Description – Part 2 Editors: L.M. Svendsen, L. van der Bijl, S. Boutrup & B. Norup Department: Monitoring, Advisory and Research Secretariat Serial title and number: NERI Technical Report No. 537 Publisher: National Environmental Research Institute© Ministry of the Environment URL: http://www.dmu.dk Date of publication: May 2005 Editing completed: April 2005 Translation: David I Barry Financial support: No external financial support Please cite as: Svendsen, L.M., Bijl, L. van der, Boutrup, S. & Norup, B. (eds.) 2005: NOVANA. National Monitoring and Assessment Programme for the Aquatic and Terrestrial Environments. Pro- gramme Description – Part 2. National Environmental Research Institute, Denmark. 138 pp. – NERI Technical Report No. 537. Reproduction permitted with clear reference to source Abstract: This report is Part 2 of the Programme Description of NOVANA – the National Monitoring and Assessment Programme for the Aquatic and Terrestrial Environments. Part 2 comprises a de- tailed description of the nine NOVANA subprogrammes: Background monitoring of air quality and atmospheric deposition; Point sources; Agricultural catchments; Groundwater; Watercourses; Lakes; Marine waters; Species and terrestrial natural habitats; and the National Air Quality Monitoring Programme. For each subprogramme the report describes the back- ground based on national requirements and international monitoring obligations, the objectives and strategy and a detailed description of the programme content. The Programme Description is in three parts. Part 1 (NERI Technical Report No. 532) comprises a general description of the background for the programme, the national requirements and international obligations re- garding monitoring of nature and the environment and the programme’s overall objectives, strategy, organization and economic framework. Part 3 (available in Danish on the NERI web- site: http://www.dmu.dk/Overvågning/NOVANA/) deals with general aspects concerning quality assurance, chemical analyses, data storage and transfer, reporting etc. and provides detailed tables of measurement variables and frequencies at the stations/localities covered by each subprogramme. Key words: Monitoring, NOVANA, aquatic environment, nature, watercourses, lakes, groundwater, ma- rine waters, fjords, agricultural catchments, atmospheric deposition, point sources, species, habitat types, Water Framework Directive, Habitats Directive, nutrients, hazardous substances, heavy metals, models, monitoring requirements, monitoring obligations, directives, interna- tional conventions, monitoring strategy. Layout: Grafisk Værksted, NERI, Silkeborg ISBN: 87-7772-866-1 ISSN (printed): 0905-815X ISSN (electronic): 1600-048 Paper quality: CyclusPrint Printed by: Schultz Grafisk Certified under ISO 14001 and ISO 9002 No. of pages: 138 Impression: 700 Price: DKK 100 (incl. 25% VAT, excl. postage) Internet version: The report is also available as a PDF file on the NERI website at: http://www2.dmu.dk/1_viden/2_Publikationer/3_fagrapporter/rapporter/FR537.pdf For sale at: Ministry of the Environment Frontlinien Rentemestervej 8 DK-2400 Copenhagen NV Denmark Tel. +45 7012 0211 [email protected] Content 1 Introduction 5 2 Summary 7 3 Background monitoring of air quality and atmospheric deposition (Thomas Ellermann) 9 3.1 Introduction 9 3.2 Background and status 9 3.3 Objectives 9 3.4 Strategy 9 3.5 Programme content 10 3.6 Main changes relative to NOVA-2003 14 3.7 Theme-specific assumptions 14 3.8 Consequences of the subprogramme in relation to the inventory of monitoring require- ments 16 3.9 Annexes 16 4 Point sources (Karin Dahlgren Laursen & Lis Morthorst Munk) 19 4.1 Introduction 19 4.2 Background and status 19 4.3 Objectives 21 4.4 Strategy 22 4.5 Programme content 27 4.6 Main changes relative to NOVA-2003 32 4.7 Theme-specific assumptions 32 4.8 Consequences of the subprogramme in relation to the inventoryof monitoring require- ments 32 4.9 Annexes 34 5 Agricultural catchments (Ruth Grant & Gitte Blicher-Mathiesen) 39 5.1 Introduction 39 5.2 Background and status 39 5.3 Objectives 40 5.4 Strategy 40 5.5 Programme content 41 5.6 Main changes relative to NOVA-2003 45 5.7 Theme-specific assumptions 46 5.8 Consequences of the subprogramme in relation to the inventory of monitoring require- ments 46 6 Groundwater (Jens Stockmarr) 49 6.1 Introduction 49 6.2 Background and status 49 6.3 Objectives 50 6.4 Strategy 51 6.5 Programme content 55 6.6 Main changes relative to NOVA-2003 61 6.7 Theme-specific assumptions 62 6.8 Consequences of the subprogramme in relation to the inventory of monitoring require- ments 62 6.9 Annexes 64 7 Watercourses (Jens Bøgestrand) 69 7.1 Introduction 69 7.2 Background and status 69 7.3 Objectives 70 7.4 Strategy 70 7.5 Programme content 72 7.6 Main changes relative to NOVA-2003 75 7.7 Theme-specific assumptions 75 7.8 Consequences of the subprogramme in relation to the inventory of monitoring require- ments 76 7.9 Annexes 76 8 Lakes (Jens Peder Jensen & Torben Lauridsen) 79 8.1 Introduction 79 8.2 Background and status 79 8.3 Objectives 80 8.4 Strategy 82 8.5 Programme content 84 8.6 Main changes relative to NOVA-2003 87 8.7 Theme-specific assumptions 88 8.8 Consequences of the subprogramme in relation to the inventory of monitoring require- ments 89 9 Marine waters (Jesper H. Andersen (ed.)) 91 9.1 Introduction 91 9.2 Background and status 91 9.3 Objectives 96 9.4 Strategy 97 9.5 Programme content 98 9.6 Main changes relative to NOVA-2003 107 9.7 Theme-specific assumptions 109 9.8 Consequences of the subprogramme in relation to the inventory of monitoring require- ments 109 9.9 Annexes 111 10 Species and Terrestrial Natural Habitats (Jesper Fredshavn, Hans Løkke & Henning Noer (eds.)) 113 10.1 Introduction 113 10.2 Background and status 113 10.3 Overall strategy for monitoring of species and terrestrial natural habitats 113 10.4 Monitoring of terrestrial natural habitats 114 10.5 Monitoring of species 121 11 Nationwide Air Quality Monitoring Programme (LMP IV) (Finn Palmgren & Thomas Ellermann) 129 11.1 Introduction 129 11.2 Background and status 129 11.3 Objectives 129 11.4 Strategy 130 11.5 Programme content 131 11.6 Theme-specific assumptions 133 11.7 Consequences of the subprogramme in relation to the inventory of monitoring require- ments 133 12 References 135 National Environmental Research Institute NERI Technical Reports 1 Introduction When the Action Plan on the Aquatic Environment Overall responsibility for preparation of the Pro- was adopted in 1987, a monitoring programme was gramme Description lies with the Programme Man- established in order to follow the development in the agement Board. The Monitoring, Advisory and Re- actual discharges and losses of nutrients to the aquatic search Secretariat at the National Environmental Re- environment and record the ecological effects of the search Institute has been responsible for the overall reduction in discharges. The monitoring programme editing of the Programme Description, while the indi- was initiated on 1 October 1988 (Danish EPA, 1989). vidual subprogrammes have been drawn up by the The programme supplemented environmental super- Topic Centres. vision by the regional authorities of the air, the groundwater, agricultural catchments, watercourses, Part 2 of the Programme Description was edited by: lakes, the sea and wastewater treatment plants and other point sources. Lars M. Svendsen, National Environmental Research Institute The monitoring programme was subsequently ad- Lilian van der Bijl, justed in 1992 (Danish EPA, 1993) and revised in 1997 National Environmental Research Institute (Danish EPA, 2000), at which time the monitoring of Susanne Boutrup, hazardous substances was incorporated. The moni- National Environmental Research Institute toring programme was renamed the Danish Aquatic Bjarne Norup, Monitoring and Assessment programme (NOVA- National Environmental Research Institute 2003). The authors of the individual subprogrammes are as In 2003 it was decided to undertake a major revision of follows: NOVA-2003 such that the national monitoring pro- gramme integrated national monitoring of nature and Chapter 3: Background monitoring of air quality and the aquatic environment. The new programme was atmospheric deposition – Thomas Ellermann named NOVANA – the National Monitoring and As- Chapter 4: Point sources – Karin Dahlgren Laursen and sessment Programme for the Aquatic and Terrestrial Lis Morthorst Munk Environments. The agreement covered the period Chapter 5: Agricultural catchments – Ruth Grant and 2004–2009. In addition to the areas previously moni- Gitte Blicher-Mathiesen tored, NOVANA incorporates monitoring of species Chapter 6: Groundwater – Jens Stockmarr and terrestrial natural habitats. Moreover, greater pri- Chapter 7: Watercourses – Jens Bøgestrand ority has been accorded to aquatic species and habitats. Chapter 8: Lakes – Jens Peder