1. Background CRiteria for the IDentification of Groundwater thrEsholds BRIDGE Project Presentation Contract N° (SSPI) Co-ordinator: BRGM (Fr) Anne-Marie Fouillac
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2. Bridge Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP)
FP Programme « Integrating and strengthening the European Research Area »
Priority 8 Activity « Policy support and anticipating scientific and technological needs »
Deadline of submission …. 13 January 2004
Contract negotiations…….. July - December 2004
Contract signature………... 23th, 2004
Contract N° (SSPI)
Co-ordinator : BRGM (FR)
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3. Bridge project 27 partners 17 countries Budget of the project Duration
24 academic or public organisations, 2 SMEs, 1 non profit organisation
17 countries
17 European countries (FR, AT, UK, BE, DK, DE, ES, FIN, GR, IT, NL, PT) including 4 New Member States (LT, EE, PL, HU)
1 candidate country (BL)
Budget of the project
Total budget…….. … M€
EC contribution ..… M€
Duration
24 months: hence supporting the GWD negotiation process
Start Date : 1st January 2005
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4. BRIDGE Participants
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5. Bridge project Strategic Objective Main goals
To define a common methodology for the establishment of threshold values in Groundwater
Main goals
To study and gather scientific outputs to set out criteria for the assessment of the chemical status of groundwater (data on pollutants and key hydro-geological parameters)
To derive a common methodology based on scientific results and defined at national river basin district or groundwater body level to set up groundwater threshold values
To check the applicability and validity by means of case studies at the European scale
To identify and undertake additional research studies to complete available data
To carry out an environmental impact assessment taking into account the economic and social impacts
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6. Bridge project - Work Programme
WP1: Survey of representative groundwater pollutants
WP2 : Study of groundwater characteristics
WP3: Criteria for environmental thresholds and methodology to define a good status
WP4: Representative sites / water body studies and compliance testing
WP5: Economic and social costs linked to the establishment of groundwater threshold values
WP6: Information and dissemination
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7. Bridge project - Work Programme WP1 Survey of representative groundwater Pollutants
State of the art and relation with on-going national and EU-funded RDT projects for natural and anthropogenic substances in groundwater :
behaviour, eco-toxicological effects, interactions with surface waters and ecosystems.
metals, anions and organic compounds of the GWD, 33 priority substances (2001), emerging pollutants
All information assembled in a reference data base (Draft Report Month12)
This data base will be the major input from WP1 to WP2. It will permit better definition of the impacts of pollutants to groundwater bodies.
It is also a major input to WP3 to build up the conceptual model and the methodology.
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8. It will benefit from WP1 database on chemical pollutants
Bridge project - Work Programme WP2 Study of groundwater characteristics
Description of the specific criteria linked to the groundwater bodies to be potentially taken into account to characterise their chemical status (Report Month15)
Hydro-geological characteristics of groundwater
Soil/groundwater interactions and groundwater/surface waters interactions
Quantitative aspects and links with qualitative aspects
It will benefit from WP1 database on chemical pollutants
It will be the basis for the development of an approach for establishment of environmental thresholds (WP3)
Results of WP2 will be used for socio-economic assessment of case studies testing (WP5).
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9. Data and information from WP1 and WP2
Bridge project - Work Programme WP3 Criteria for environmental thresholds and methodology to define a good status
Propose a practical approach for a methodology to define the good status for groundwater bodies and a general structure of criteria, giving guidance on the derivation process for environmental thresholds (Report Month 3)
Review of national methodologies of groundwater protection
Take into account sampling, measuring and quality assurance
Monitoring networks and integrated data aggregation
Data and information from WP1 and WP2
Methodology definition will be transferred to :
WP4 for on site validation
WP5 for socio-economic assessment
WP6 for information to policy makers and stakeholders
---> Preliminary Methodology : Report Month 12
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10. Evaluate the approach defined in WP3
Bridge project - Work Programme WP4 Representative sites / water body studies and compliance testing
Evaluate the approach defined in WP3
Selection of representative sites focusing on PRB as sites with priority (Report Month 6)
Evaluation of the developed approach
Linked with RTD projects (Swift, Aquaterra, Snowman, ….)
Case studies and compliance testing (Report Month 18)
Results will be transferred to :
WP5 for socio-economic assessment
WP6 for communication / dissemination
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11. Estimation of the socio-economic impact of these values
Bridge project - Work Programme WP5 Economic and social costs linked to the application of threshold values
Estimation of the socio-economic impact of these values
Development of a methodological framework
Integrated socio-economic assessment of groundwater threshold values (5 case studies) (Report Month18)
The assessment of economic and social costs will be linked to the definition of threshold values (WP3)
Socio-economic results will be used for general communication (WP6).
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12. Bridge project - Work Programme WP6 Information and dissemination
to stimulate the co-operation and interaction between the Governing Council, the Advisory Committee, the different partners, the Working Group 2C and the European Commission.
Workshops (Month 1, 7, 13, 19, 24)
Web-documents on CIRCA
Link to the Common Implementation Strategy Process via WG2C
This WP will benefit of inputs of each WP in order to display efficient communication between partner’s and related bodies to obtain a real consensus about proposed methodology.
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13. Bridge Project
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