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EPA STRIVE Research Programme Water Research

EPA STRIVE Research Programme Water Research. Irish Freshwater Biologists Annual Meeting UCD – 12/03/2010 Alice Wemaere. Presentation Overview. EPA Research Programme Overview Water Research Projects Overview International Linkages. STRIVE Programme 2007-2013.

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EPA STRIVE Research Programme Water Research

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  1. EPA STRIVE Research ProgrammeWater Research Irish Freshwater Biologists Annual Meeting UCD – 12/03/2010 Alice Wemaere

  2. Presentation Overview • EPA Research Programme Overview • Water Research • Projects Overview • International Linkages

  3. STRIVE Programme 2007-2013 “To protect and improve the natural environment by addressing key environmental management issues through the provision of world-class scientific knowledge, generated through a vibrant, competitiveprogrammeof research supported and co-ordinated by EPA”

  4. What are the drivers? • Water Framework Directive • Drinking Water Directive • Bathing Water Directive • Nitrates Pollution Directive • Groundwater Directive • Flood Directive • Marine Strategy Framework Directive • Urban Waste Water Directive • Dangerous Substances Directive • Environmental Liability Directive • Soil Thematic Strategy

  5. EPA-funded Research 2000 / 2002 Calls • Directly aimed at the implementation of the WFD (mainly DS) 2005 Calls • Aimed at the Characterisation report, references conditions & public participation 2007 Calls • Efficiency of Measures, Monitoring Criteria for PP; Understanding of contaminants pathways

  6. Review of EPA Water Research • Evaluation Framework & VFM in-house Study (2007) • CIRCA Benchmarking of ERTDI Programme (2007) • Assessment of policy impacts of WFD-targeted research (2009)

  7. Current Research Completing in 2010: 2005 Projects: • WINCOMS • ILLUMINATE • IMPLANT 2007 Projects: • Alien Invasive Species Ongoing Projects: • Pathways Project • HYDROFOR Project • Monitoring Criteria for Priority Pollutants • Groundwater Fauna • EFFECT Project • ET, EH, PhDs & FS

  8. PATHWAYS Project: €2m – 5 year QUB, UCD & TCD Aims: Integrate relevant past and current research studies into a catchment management tool (CMT) for use by RBD management Help improve the current understanding of hydrological processes in the Irish context: • Contaminant transport and attenuation, • Impact upon receptors. Website: www.qub.ac.uk/research-centres/eerc/UsefulLinks/Pathways-EPASTRIVEProject/

  9. HYDROFOR • Project: • €2m – 5 year; co-funded with COFORD • UCD, NUIG, UCC, MI • Aims: • Better explain/predict ecological quality of waterways affected by forestry to advance scientific research and further inform Ireland’s Water Framework Directive Programme of Measures development process • Investigate the effects of forestry enterprises on Ireland’s aquatic ecology • Assess measures to efficiently reduce these effects • Website: • www.ucd.ie/hydrofor/home.htm

  10. Monitoring Criteria for PP Project: DCU, CIT Aims: Establish an index that relates population equivalents to the occurrence and / or concentration of dangerous and priority pollutants. • Review & Optimisation of laboratory methods • Assessment of content of priority substances: Domestic & Industrial • Emission Factors Website: https://sites.google.com/site/criteriaforprioritychemicals/

  11. Groundwater Fauna Project: U. Ulster & NUIG Aims: Assessment of the distribution, structure and functioning of subterranean fauna within Irish groundwater systems • Survey for subterranean fauna • Structure and functioning of key species Niphargus kochianus irlandicus Contact: Joerg Arnscheidt (j.arnscheidt@ulster.ac.uk)

  12. EFFECT An Effective Framework For assessing aquatic ECosysTem responses to implementation of the Phosphorous Regulations Project: TCD, AFBI, U. Ulster Aims: Identification of water bodies/stretches of water that are particularly sensitive to P-induced impairment or insensitive to remediation, Determination of the efficacy of POMs aimed at reducing diffuse and point-source, P-induced impacts on water quality Contact: David Taylor (taylord@tcd.ie)

  13. Policy Support – Env & Health Enhancing Human Health Through Improved Water Quality project • Cryptosporidium Understanding • NUIG/HSE • http://www.nuigalway.ie/ehh/ehhtiwq_home.php Other Health-Water projects • Biologicals – Pathogens, Norovirus, • Chemicals – Personal Care Products, Anti-microbial residues, Nanoparticles

  14. Research SupportingEnvironmental Technologies Toxicity testing – replacement animal trials > 98% Metal Removal using Nano IBM/ Water Quality Sensor at Inniscarra Anaerobic sewage treatment at 120C 500 days

  15. Research supporting Policy & Technology DEPLOY DCU/UCC/SWRBD & IDS Started April 2009 – Partners Trial (EPA/MI) http://89.124.67.3/deploy2/Home/tabid/180/Default.aspx Flow-Proportional passive sensor validation of phosphorus and nitrogen in Irish rivers

  16. Research Support (Policy, Technology & Careers) NUIG research facility at Tuam WWTP Full strength wastewater,200-600 PE, Research into N & P removal, emerging pollutants, design capacity loading – Support for UWWT Directive Test Centre for Irish WWTP technology SMEs (sensor, membranes) Training centre for LA operators and future engineers

  17. International Linkages • SNIFFER • ERA-Nets: SKEP, Env & Health, CIRCLE2 • FP7 • WssTP

  18. Contact: a.wemaere@epa.ie Thank You

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