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CCB Checklist for NGOs on Good River Basin Management

CCB Checklist for NGOs on Good River Basin Management. Representatives from all CCB countries were inolved in compilation of the present document. Target group of the guideline.

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CCB Checklist for NGOs on Good River Basin Management

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  1. CCB Checklist for NGOs on Good River Basin Management Representatives from all CCB countries were inolved in compilation of the present document CCB 4th WFD Seminar, 2005

  2. Target group of the guideline • Active citizens and NGOs who take part in the River Basin Management Planning (RBMP) process and need guidance in big loads of information. • Goal of the interest group – to guarantee the good ecological status of the marine environment and the rivers in the Baltic Sea catchment area. CCB 4th WFD Seminar, 2005

  3. EU requirements for Water Management Plans • 2015 - all waterbodies in good ecological status; • Measures for solving water problems and their costs (2006 – sub basin plans, 2009 – river basin plans); • Public consultations of the water management plans on River Basin level in 2006, 2007 and 2008, each time 6 months for giving comments. • 2003 - competent authorities. • Crossing administrative borders (counties, states). CCB 4th WFD Seminar, 2005

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  5. Steps in Water Management Planning according to the EU GUIDELINE on Public Participation CCB 4th WFD Seminar, 2005

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  7. Priorities of CCB/EGM in protecting the waterbodies • See also www.ccb.se • Good ecological status, limiting of the loads of N and P from diffuse sources: Water protection measures in agriculture, alternative ecotechnologies in waste water treatment, voluntary monitoring of waterbodies. • Dangerous activities and installations in the Baltic Sea: oil transit, oil drilling, new terminals and direct connections, hydroelectric power plants. • Sustainable fisheries and protection of the naturally spawning Baltic Salmon. • This guideline can be used as a “CHECKLIST”to compare, if certain elements are existing in the draft River Basin Management Plan or not. CCB 4th WFD Seminar, 2005

  8. 2006 – Introducing the timetable and workplan of the RBMP team • Scientific institutions and experts, characterisation of the river basins and water bodies, location and order of getting aquainted with draft documents. • Heavily modified waterbodies. • Nitrate sensitive areas. • Chemical and biological status of water bodies • Water quality classes and selection of sites for all-union water monitoring (intercalibration). CCB 4th WFD Seminar, 2005

  9. 2007 and 2008 – Problems, measures, costs and prioritising • Waste water treatment in rural areas with scarse population, small settlements and single family homes. • Water protection measures in agriculture - developed in parallel with Rural Development Planning process and subsidies. • Fishes in rivers – bases for biological diversity. • Migratory fishes, small hydropower plants and dams. • Aquaculture. • Voluntary monitoring. CCB 4th WFD Seminar, 2005

  10. Eco-Engineering(Wastewater treatment in rural areas, small settlements and single family homes) • Goal: Limit prodution of wastewater and recycle the nutrients. • Not covered in the present sub basin managment plans. List of proposed questions. • Suggestions: develop high requirements for waste water from sigle family homes. • Develop guidelines promoting sustainable toile systems. • Introduce sucessful examples of existing treatment systems for small settlements. CCB 4th WFD Seminar, 2005

  11. Eco-Engineering(Suggestions from the CCB strategy document May 2005) • Relate eco-engineering campaigns with the existing River Basin Management Planning processes. Promote small treatment plants in rural areas. • Prepare lists of • functioning ecological waste water treatment plants in the Baltic Sea Region • contacts of engineers • Wait for next call for research applications under the EU Framework Programme 6, may be eco-technology is also included. • Demand real public participation in planning wastewater treatment • Influencing National Development Plans to include Sustainable Wastewater treatment as one of the measures to be financed from structural funds. CCB 4th WFD Seminar, 2005

  12. Water protection in agriculture 1 • - properly managed wastewater treatment (including manure) and water protection • - promotion of best solutions for small localities and single farms (ecotechnologies, nutrient recycling) • - promotion of „small retention” in rural areas (system of properly managed ditches and ponds used both for water retention and purification) • - organic or sustainble farming methods. • - Modernising infrastructure (housing, slurry and manure storage facilities, also avoiding atmospheric emissions of ammonia from animal production; CCB 4th WFD Seminar, 2005

  13. Water protection in agriculture 2 • More efficient manure application techniques; • - Reducing industrial farming to sustainable levels in sensitive areas; • - Maintaining extensive farming systems; • - More efficient use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides; • - Creation of multispecies buffer zones for protecting water courses; • - Creation of constructed wetlands as sustainable pollution control structures, • - Haymaking in floodplains. CCB 4th WFD Seminar, 2005

  14. Salmon Rivers(from the CCB Checklist) • Demand on proper characterisation of the fish populations. • Require clear objectives for the status of fish populations. • Migratory fish species shuold be able to migrate into all parts of the river system where the spawning and breeding conditions are suitable. • Larvae and smolts should be able to migrate out of the river (obstacles should be removed). . CCB 4th WFD Seminar, 2005

  15. Salmon Rivers(from CCB Strategy document 2005) • Relate campaigning with ongoing RBMP consultations, follow the timetable for WFD implementation. • Rebuilding dams – demand public hearings about new hydrotechnical activities • Removing dams – no thinking about opening the rivers in Poland. Campaign for protection against floods. • Participate in • Characterisation of the resources of the rivers • Developing of the best standards • Finding specialists • Changing the laws • Restore the spawning places • Create/advertise examples of removing an old and unused dam. • Demand more effective control about fishing activities. . CCB 4th WFD Seminar, 2005

  16. Small hydropower(Suggestions in the CCB Checklist) ·Require • a plan evaluating all constructions hindering the free movement of fish in the river system. • a plan for the reestoration for wild salmon habitats downstreams the first dam. • A plan for control over the river fisheries that would quarantee a sustainaed populationof wild salmon, brown trout etc. • A plan to remove small dams and ponds that do not havbe any special purpose, or, if not possible a plan for constructing the fishways. CCB 4th WFD Seminar, 2005

  17. Small hydropower(from CCB strategy document 2005) ·Be represented in River Basin Management advisory groups.Representatives should be elected by NGO’s ·Demand EIA for whole rivers, not only for each dam construction ·Collect groups of stakeholders (anglers …) -Specify demands ·Raise public awareness -See proposals on p 86 in ’Present and potential production of salmon in Estonian rivers’ ·Make survey of river status -E.g. fish ladder -Compile a list of illegal constructions 1.discuss with owner 2.report to authorities CCB 4th WFD Seminar, 2005

  18. Aquaculture ·Aquaculture can give considerable pollution of nutrients. • Requirements on water quality outlets of aquaculture ponds. Compulsory wastewater treatment. • Do not alow for localisation of aquaculture in sensitive waters or , maybe , in the whole river system. CCB 4th WFD Seminar, 2005

  19. River Watch(suggestions in the CCB strategy document 2005) • Produce CCB Guideline for sustainable RBMP including good examples or a document “10 points for good River Basin Management Planning”. • Investigate what/where monitoring is already done. Find about new WFD monitoring methods and select most simple ones for voluntary monitoring networking. • Find out about Intercalibration of the WFD monitoring sites in Baltic Sea Region (For example start voluntary monitoring in coastal water sites) . •  Voluntary Monitoring Networks for Baltic salmon rivers for wide public (1 river in each country). Using new monitoring equipment. Only qualitative monitoring. CCB 4th WFD Seminar, 2005

  20. Participation possibilities • Officially the consultations take place in 2006, 2007 and 2008, but the earlier the local level consultation happens the better. In later phases it is more difficult to achieve any changes as then general level plans are compiled from lower level plans. CCB 4th WFD Seminar, 2005

  21. Info on www.ccb.se • WFD seminars • Good examples • Materials by Grüne Liga • Links to WFD sites CCB 4th WFD Seminar, 2005

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