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Monitoring network development for the WFD in The Netherlands: State of affairs. Jos Timmerman RIZA. Some figures :. 1300 Waterbodies, 40 types, still under discussion Only very few natural waters Most waters thought to be at risk in 2015 Lakes, rivers, transitional waters and coast
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Monitoring network development for the WFD in The Netherlands: State of affairs Jos Timmerman RIZA
Some figures: • 1300 Waterbodies, 40 types, still under discussion • Only very few natural waters • Most waters thought to be at risk in 2015 • Lakes, rivers, transitional waters and coast • Managed by 37 watermanagers (27+ 10) • Divided in 4 catchment areas : Rhine, Meuse, Scheldt and Eems
Monitoring • Guidelines ready for ecology and chemical substances • Discussion on number of waterbodies to be monitored for ecology • Most of the watermanagers are already monitoring chemicals • In particular fish monitoring new to many watermanagers • Minimum frequency has been chosen
Example: Points of discussion for Biological Monitoring • Artificial en Heavily modified : what will be the objectives? • How to aggregate waterbodies? • How to deal with protected area’s and Groundwater bodies? Which objectives are leading? • Cost efficiency, what is reasonable? • Quality of measurements and statistics