Monitoring programs in Sweden Northern calotte water authority meeting 16 – 18 april 2013

4 types of monitoring according to WFD Surveillance monitoring - Kontrollerande övervakning Operational monitoring - Operativ övervakning Investigative monitoring- Undersökande övervakning Quantitative monitoring - Kvantitativ övervakning Plan for monitoring of water (VM) New national and regional monitoring programs (HaV, länsstyrelserna) 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 MP = Monitoring programme reported to EU MP 2006 MP 2006 MP 2012 MP 2016

The first monitoring programme reported in 2007 didn’t make the EU-commission so happy… A number of shortcomings in the Swedish monitoring programmes have been identified. The Commission however considers these shortcomings serious. The monitoring networks are therefore considered incomplete in this first cycle. Few monitoring stations Only about 1% of river water bodies (16 water bodies) and 1.5 % of lake water bodies (13 water bodies) are actually monitored, the results for the other water bodies are modelled. Little monitoring of biology and hydromorphology At the same time the sites that are monitored do not cover all biological quality elements or all supporting quality elements, e.g. there are only 3 sites that cover at least 3 biological quality elements (all except phytoplankton) but all others cover less. Hydromorphological supporting elements are not monitored and not applied to ecological classification at all. What about monitoring of prioritized substances? As regards monitoring of priority substances, it is unclear if all priority substances have been monitored. If not all substances have been monitored it is unclear, which substances are monitored and in which matrix. Monitoring is the base of all other parts of the RBMP’s This is particularly serious since it also has repercussions on literally all other parts of the RBMPs, such as classification, the setting of specific objectives and the identification of measures.

Monitoring program 2012-2015 Bothnian Bay district Present monitoring: lots of activities, lack of coordination, metadata/rawdata of monitoring stations divided on several databases Water authority: produce monitoring programs, no monitoring of our own, we have to use other monitoring Criteria for selecting sites and description of the monitoring programmes 2012-2015 are described in reports BVVD, BHVD, NÖVD, SÖVD, VHVD

Monitoring programmes are based on existing programmes Registered monitoring stations in the database VISS 2012 Reported 2007, 2009 Reported 2012

Monitoring programme 2012 – Groundwater Monitoring of quantitative status Surveillance monitoring of chemical status 44 17 74 7 90 8 113 62 9 7 waters bodies in BB district 44 water bodies in BB district

Monitoring programme 2012 – Groundwater – Operational monitoring Of chemical status 13 0 water bodies in BB district

Monitoring programme 2012 – surface waters – surveillance monitoring Basically all active stations that monitor relevant parameters, were selected 10-50 % of the water bodies in the districts are monitored, less monitoring in north 10 % of the WBs in BB-district is included in the programme reported 2012 Bothnian Bay – monitoring programme 2012

Lakes: Phys-Chem is monitored in a large amount of lakes only 1 time/6 yrs (333 of 376 lakes) Surveillance monitoring of ecological status: Biology Hydromorphlogy Phys-Chem

Lakes: Phys-Chem is monitored in a large amount of lakes only 1 time/6 yrs (333 of 376 lakes) Surveillance monitoring of ecological status: Biology Hydromorphlogy Phys-Chem

Monitoring programme 2012 – surface waters – operational monitoring Stations monitoring relevant parameters for each environmental problem were selected In Bothnian Bay covers the program 197 waters (3% of all water bodies) Monitoring of acidification and eutrophication dominates despite the fact that hydromorphological changes is the most common environmental problem in the district. Operational monitoring of ecological status

Monitoring programme 2012 – Surface water – priority substances and chemical status Covers all stations monitoring in water, biota and sediment About 7% of the water bodies are monitored, more stations at the coast Surveillance monitoring of chemical status Operational monitoring of chemical status Cd, Pb och Ni most common (400 stationer). Hg about 100 stations. Organic compound about 20 stations (only in coastal water) All stations except metals in water 1 times/6 yrs. Not related to where problems with hazardous substances occur.

Improvement since reporting 2009? YES A lot more stations reported Improved reporting regarding information of the programme, e.g. Design of programme Used methods, references Motives for frequencies differing from the overall design