Oder Catchment - Source of Pollution (DE) Pollution from a German Perspective (Nov 14, 2017 – S. Maier, BUND BB) source: Land Brandenburg, Land Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Freistaat Sachsen (2015): updated River Basin Management Plan for the German Part of the International Oder River Basin, own modification Friends of the Earth Germany River Basin District Warnow / Peene Separate to the Szczecin Lagoon / River Basin District Oder Friends of the Earth Germany Schlei / Trave, Peene, Warnow Tributaries Concentration of total Nitrogen (Moving five - year - average) source: German Environment Agency 2016 according to the Federal States and River Basin Communities, own modification Friends of the Earth Germany Oder River Basin in Germany General Information Area of the river basin • internat. river basin district: 124,115 km² • in Germany: 9,705 km² (8 %) Length of the river • Odra: 854.3 km (mouth: Szczecin Lagoon) • Border Oder: 161.7 km (estuary of Nysa Łużycka River to fork between Western / Eastern Odra) • Western Oder: 17.1 km (fork between Western / Eastern Oder to Mescherin) Different evaluation of • Germany: natural water body same water body • Poland: heavily modified water body Area of the river basin • total: 118,861 km²; Main left side • Nysa Łużycka River; tributaries Border / • Oder–Spree Canal; Western Oder • Hohensaaten-Friedrichsthaler Waterway (Alte Oder, Welse) Friends of the Earth Germany Ecological status of Surface Water Bodies Oder Catchment in Germany high good moderate poor bad not assessed no ecological status assessment necessary Umweltbundesamt, own modification Friends of the Earth Germany Chemical status of Surface Water Bodies Oder with - and without - taking ubiquitous Substances into Account failing to achieve good good failing to achieve good not assessed Umweltbundesamt, own modification Friends of the Earth Germany Chemical status of Surface Water Bodies Oder with - and without - taking ubiquitous Substances into Account Rivers in poor Chemical Status (state 2011) Waters Groups Harmful Substances Parameter and/or Parameter Group Oder other harmful substances tributyltin, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons Nysa Łużycka other harmful substances tributyltin Rivers in poor Chemical Status (state 2015) Waters Parameter and/or Parameter Group tributyltin, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, Benzo(ghi)perylene, Oder fluoranthene tributyltin, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, Benzo(ghi)perylene, Nysa Łużycka benzopyrene, fluoranthene, Irgarol source: Landesamt für Umwelt (2016): Umsetzung der Wasserrahmenrichtlinie Beiträge des Landes Brandenburg zu den Bewirtschaftungsplänen und Maßnahmenprogrammen der Flussgebietseinheiten Elbe und Oder für den Zeitraum 2016 – 2021 Friends of the Earth Germany Lignite Mining and Power Plants in Lusatia Pollution Factor for Oder River Basin and Elbe River Basin “Poor quantitative status” in the Rhine, Maas and Oder river basins is often attributable to mining in general and lignite mining in particular, which has been (or was) actively pursued for decades in these regions, and whose groundwater levels have in many cases been extremely lowered for centuries. Moreover, even after mining comes to a source: Wikimedia Commons, Karte der Lausitz mit Tagebauen und Kraftwerken Stand 2009 halt, restoration of natural groundwater levels will take decades. UBA, The status of German waters 2015: Water Framework Directive, p. 67 Friends of the Earth Germany Quantitative status of Groundwater Bodies Quantitative Status and Chemical Status good poor Umweltbundesamt, own modification Friends of the Earth Germany Nitrate: Groundwater Bodies with poor Status Situation in Germany and with Focus on Oder River Basin good poor Friends of the Earth Source: Umweltbundesamt, https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/faqs-zu-nitrat-im-grund-trinkwasser Germany VSR: Amount Drinking Water Wells >50mg/l N On the base of private owned Drinking Water Wells (2013-2017) Amount of Dwells with more than 50 mg /l Nitrate less than 5% 5% to 10% 10% to 20% 20% to 30% 30% to 40% 40% to 50% more than 50% too few measured values Source: VSR-Gewässerschutz - Projekt: Nitratbelastung unserer Gewässer http://www.vsr-gewässerschutz.de/ Friends of the Earth Germany VSR: Drinking Water Wells (2015-2017) VSR Nitrate Maps 2013, 2015 and 2017 with focus on Oder 2013 2015 2017 Amount of Dwells with more than 50 mg /l Nitrate less than 5% 5% to 10% 10% to 20% 20% to 30% 30% to 40% 40% to 50% more than 50% too few measured values Source: VSR-Gewässerschutz - Projekt: Nitratbelastung unserer Gewässer http://www.vsr-gewässerschutz.de/, own modification Friends of the Earth Germany VSR: Nitrate Levels in Border Oder 2010 Monitoring Results during Measure Run in October 2010 Source: VSR-Gewässerschutz - Pressrelease, Ergebnisse der Oder – Location Nitrate Levels Messfahrt bestätigen: Auen führen zur Verringerung der Polecko 11.1 mg/l Nitratbelastung http://www.vsr-gewässerschutz.de/ Frankfurt 10.7 mg/l Küstrin 11.7 mg/l Hohenwutzen 11.8 mg/l Schwedt 10.2 mg/l Gryfino 9.3 mg/l Friends of the Earth Germany Significant Pressures Surface Water Bodies German Part of the International Oder River Basin District Main Pressure Types (# water bodies per sub-basin area) sub-basin area: # SWB STH: Szczecin Lagoon # SWB with Pressures SBA from flow regulation and other UOD: Lower Oder total significant from point water diffuse morphological anthropogeni MOD: Middle Oder pressures sources abstraction sources changes c LAN: Lusatian Neisse Rivers STH 179 179 7 179 1 59 115 UOD 178 178 10 178 5 135 2 MOD 43 43 1 43 3 31 0 LAN 52 52 9 52 3 29 0 total 452 452 27 452 12 254 117 Lakes STH 22 22 0 22 0 0 0 UOD 22 22 0 22 0 4 0 MOD 3 3 0 3 0 0 0 LAN 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 total 48 48 0 48 0 4 0 Coastal Waters STH 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 Source: Land Brandenburg, Land Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Freistaat Sachsen: "Aktualisierter Bewirtschaftungsplan nach Artikel 13 der Richtlinie 2000/60/EG bzw. § 83 WHG für den deutschen Teil der IFGE Oder: Bewirtschaftungszeitraum 2016 bis 2021", Dezember 2015, table 2.1, own translation Friends of the Earth Germany References Printed Sources • ICPO (2015): "Aktualisierter Bewirtschaftungsplan für die Internationale Flussgebietseinheit Oder im Bewirtschaftungszeitraum 2016-2021" [Updated Water Management Plan for the International Oder River Basin District Oder within the Management Cycle 2016 to 2021] • Land Brandenburg, Land Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Freistaat Sachsen (2015): "Aktualisierter Bewirtschaftungsplan nach Artikel 13 der Richtlinie 2000/60/EG bzw. § 83 WHG für den deutschen Teil der IFGE Oder: Bewirtschaftungszeitraum 2016 bis 2021" [Updated Water Management Plan according article 13 of Directive 2000/60/EC respectively § 83 for the German part of the International Oder River Basin District Oder: Management Cycle 2016 to 2021] • LfU (2016): " Umsetzung der Wasserrahmenrichtlinie: Beiträge des Landes Brandenburg zu den Bewirtschaftungsplänen und Maßnahmenprogrammen der Flussgebietseinheiten Elbe und Oder für den Zeitraum 2016 – 2021 " [Implementation of the Water Framework Directive: Contributions of the State Brandenburg to the Management Plans and Programmes of Measures of the River Basin Districts Elbe and Oder for the period 2016 - 2021] • VSR-Gewässerschutz (2011): "Ergebnisse der Oder-Messfahrt bestätigen: Auen führen zur Verringerung der Nitratbelastung ", Pressrelease [Results of the Oder-Measurement Run confirm: Floodplains reduce Nitrate Pollution] • UBA (2016): " Water Framework Directive: The status of German waters 2015 " Links • International Commission for the Protection of the Odra River against Pollution (ICPO): www.mkoo.pl • Brandenburg State Office for Environment (LfU): www.lfu.brandenburg.de • German Environment Agency (UBA): www.umweltbundesamt.de • WasserBLIcK: www.wasserblick.de (the website hosts the "national water reporting portal" and the central specialist portal of the competent authorities) • Association for the protection of the Rhine and its tributaries (VSR-Gewässerschutz): www.vsr-gewässerschutz.de Friends of the Earth Germany.