Development of an Integrated Water Monitoring Programme and development of associated databases supporting the implementation of the Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC in Cyprus Contract No. 46/2005 FINAL Report of Activity 2.4 – “Elaboration of a monitoring programme” July, 2007 TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements iii 1. INTRODUCTION...................................................................................................................1 2. OVERVIEW OF THE MONITORING PROGRAMMES ..............................................................3 3. RIVER WATER BODIES ........................................................................................................9 3.1 SURVEILLANCE MONITORING NETWORK 9 3.2 OPERATIONAL MONITORING NETWORK 12 3.3 PARAMETERS AND FREQUENCY 16 3.4 GROUPING OF RIVER WATER BODIES 23 3.5 SUMMARY TABLES FOR RWBs MONITORING PROGRAMME 28 4. LAKE WATER BODIES ....................................................................................................... 29 4.1 SURVEILLANCE MONITORING NETWORK 29 4.2 OPERATIONAL MONITORING NETWORK 29 4.3 PARAMETERS AND FREQUENCY 32 4.4 ADDITIONAL MONITORING REQUIREMENTS FOR LAKES (DRINKING WATER – PROTECTED AREAS) 37 4.5 GROUPING OF LAKE WATER BODIES 38 4.6 SUMMARY TABLES FOR LWBs MONITORING PROGRAMME 39 5. COASTAL WATER BODIES................................................................................................. 40 5.1 SURVEILLANCE MONITORING NETWORK 40 5.2 OPERATIONAL MONITORING NETWORK 41 5.3 PARAMETERS AND FREQUENCY 43 5.4 GROUPING OF COASTAL WATER BODIES 46 5.5 SUMMARY TABLES FOR CWBs MONITORING PROGRAMME 48 6. GROUND WATER BODIES ................................................................................................. 49 6.1 QUALITATIVE MONITORING NETWORK 49 6.2 QUANTITATIVE MONITORING NETWORK 50 6.3 PARAMETERS AND FREQUENCY 50 6.4 SUMMARY TABLE FOR GWBs MONITORING PROGRAMME 69 7. INSTITUTIONAL ASPECTS ................................................................................................ 70 8. COST ASSESSMENT........................................................................................................... 76 9. REVIEW OF KEY ISSUES RAISED AND SOLVED................................................................ 79 9.1 TECHNICAL KEY ISSUES 79 9.2 INSTITUTIONAL KEY ISSUES 83 i APPENDICES APPENDIX I: Maps of proposed monitoring programmes MAP 1: WFD Monitoring Programme MAP 2: Surface Water Bodies Monitoring Programme MAP 2: Ground Water Bodies Monitoring Programme APPENDIX II: Organisation Chart APPENDIX III: Cost Assessment Tables ii Acknowledgements Ms N. Kotronarou of the National Observatory of Athens (IERSD/NOA) as Project Manager and Ms M. Panaretou, Hydrologist of the Water Development Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment as Project Coordinator manage this project. Valuable support for the execution of the study was received from the Water Development Department of MANRE as the implementing Agency, the Department of Fisheries and Marine Research of MANRE and the State General Laboratory of the Ministry of Health as the co-operating Agencies as well as from other agencies having a role in water monitoring and other Governmental Departments and Institutions the assistance of which is greatly appreciated. Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following authorities for their contribution to the project in terms of supply of data, information and suggestions: • Water Development Department (WDD) • Department of Fisheries and Marine Research (DFMR) • General State Laboratory (SGL) • Department of Geological Survey (GSD) • Environment Service (ES) • Department of Agriculture (DA) • Department of Forests (DoF) • Meteorological Service Department (MS) • Medical Services Department The project gratefully received important and personal input from: Myroulla Hadjichristoforou, Marine Biologist (DFMR) Marina Argyrou, Marine Biologist (DFMR) Stella Michaelidou Senior Chemist (SGL) Maro Christodoulidou, Chemist, (SGL) Costas Constantinou, Hydrogeologist (GSD) Christos Christofi, Geologist (GSD) Antonis Antoniou, Senior Environment Officer (ES) Chrystala Stylianou Environment Officer (ES) Stefanos Papatryphonos, Senior Hydrogeologist (WDD) Andreas Christodoulides, Senior Hydrogeologist (WDD) Pambos Demetriou, Hydrologist (WDD) Nikodimos Nikodimou, Senior Water Engineer, (WDD) Kyriakos Spanos, Senior Water Engineer, (WDD) Gerard Doflinger, Hydrologist (WDD) In addition, many other professionals contributed to this project. A list of these professionals, which is by no means exhaustive, follows: Antonis Koussis (IERSD/NOA) Anthoula Shamma (WDD) Vaggelis Akylas (IERSD/NOA) Antonis Kolios (WDD) Adonis Georgiou (Project Management) Elias Despotis(WDD) Andreas Xatzivasilis (MedServ) Solon Kyprou (WDD) George Savva (MedServ) Charalambos Fylaktou (WDD) George Koumouris (MedServ) Themis Agkastiniotis (WDD) Loizos Hadjioannou (MS) Theodoulos Dionysiou (WDD) Stelios Pashiardis (MS) Nikos Nikolaou (WDD) Chrystalla Christodoulou (MS) Christakis Nicolaou (WDD) Agathi Anastasi (SGL) George Ioannou (WDD) Sylvia Nikolaou (SGL) Charalambos Ioannou (WDD) Theodosia Iracleous (GSD) Costas Constantinou (WDD) Froso Louca (WDD) Nikos Neophytou (WDD) Giannakis Papachristodoulou (WDD) Takis Aspris (WDD) Kyros Savides (WDD) Frixos Papouris (WDD) Vasoula Siamarou-Maragkou (WDD) Nikos Nikolaou (WDD) iii 1. INTRODUCTION As described in the Terms of Reference of the project “Development of integrated water monitoring programme and development of associated databases supporting the implementation of the Water Framework Directive 2000/60.EC in Cyprus” Contract C No. 46/2005, this is the Draft Final Report of Activity 2.4 – “Elaboration of a monitoring programme” which is part of the Activity Scheme 2 – “Monitoring programmes developed and Action Plan prepared”. Following the requirements of Article 8 of WFD, a monitoring programme for all the water bodies of Cyprus is elaborated and it is described in this report. The monitoring programme is based on the identified objectives and required outcomes of the Directive and it builds upon the outcome of Activity Scheme 1 and 2 (Activities 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3) and provides a programme, which fulfils the requirements of WFD and satisfies to an extent future water management requirements in order to contribute in the preparation of efficient and effective management plans in the future. This monitoring programme differs from the one approved by the PSC in October (Activities 2.2 and 2.3). The main factors that led to the reassessment of the approved by the PSC monitoring programme are the following: Feasibility of immediate implementation The adopted by the PSC programme has been reassessed due to feasibility reasons. The Client has provided information about the available personnel that could participate immediately in the implementation of the monitoring programme. According to this information and taking into account the minimum WFD requirements, the programme has been adapted in order to be implementable. Field visit The information collected during the extensive field visit, (20/11/06-4/12/06), assisted to the optimization of the adopted by PSC monitoring programme. The visit to all sites was useful so as to exclude the river sites that do not have a distinctive river bed and those that due to lack of flow for most of the year cannot provide confident results. European Commission evaluation of the Cyprus WFD Article 3 report The evaluation of Cyprus WFD Article 3 report has led to a significant reduction of hydrographic network of Cyprus, at least for the needs of WFD Article 3, limiting the network to the main branches of 16 rivers. The reassessed monitoring programme provides full coverage of these rivers, expanding in only a few additional basins. Taking into account all the above, the current report provides information about the following: Number and location information on all sampling sites. The sites are identified with specific coordinates for rivers and groundwaters Sampling parameters (quality elements - QEs) Frequency of sampling 1 Assessment of the resources required for the implementation of the programme Review of the main key issues i.e. issues that were “open” and had a strong influence on the successful implementation of the programme. A decision upon them was taken in order to finalise the Action Plan of the Monitoring Programme. Few of them needed to be decided upon before the finalisation of the EU Summary Report that has already been submitted and approved by the Client. After two PSC meetings (December and March) and extensive discussions, all issues have been resolved. A description of these key issues is given, together with alternative options, followed by the Consultant’s opinion and the Client’s decision. The key issues in brief are: Technical: o Starting point for the full implementation of the monitoring programme o Priority and Other Substances selection o Frequency of monitoring for priority substances in surface waters o Supplementary research programmes for the investigation of BQEs adequacy as WBs quality status indicators Institutional: o River sampling (QEs) o River sampling – monitoring sites of Decision 77/795 o Reservoir (LWBs) BQEs monitoring o Groundwater monitoring o Need for additional personnel According to the TOR of the project the main deliverable of activity Scheme 2.4 is the detailed Action Plan of the programme implementation. The Action Plan is the end result of this report (Report of Activity 2.4) containing