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Collection of monitoring strategies effective in countries participating in the TRANSCAT project.
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document --> technical publication --> report
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| Country: |
EU Projects
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| Year: |
2004 |
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Bender, S. et al. (2004) Collection of monitoring strategies effective in countries participating in the TRANSCAT project. Deliverable 4.1
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| Author 1/Producer: |
Bender, S.
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| Other Authors/Producers: |
Mieseler, T., Rubbert, T.
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| Author / Producer Type: |
EC Project
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EUGRIS Keyword(s): |
Groundwater protection-->Groundwater protection overview
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| Short description: |
In all participating countries, there exist legal frameworks of laws, norms and regulations
which define standard procedures for sampling and analytics. This legal framework may be
differing from country to country in certain terms, but a basic level of conformity is given by
norms and regulations which are applicable EU- or even worldwide, as EN- and ISO-norms.
Still, there are many particularities concerning norms and regulations applicable in the different
countries. Within the TRANSCAT -tasks 4.1 and 4.2, which are subject of this report, an
overview on these norms, regulations and other legislative documents currently valid in the
participating countries is presented (chapter 2). The information has been submitted by the
TRANSCAT project partners.
The campaigns of sampling and analytics as well as the existing database are very different
concerning the pilot sites investigated within the TRANSCAT project. While for example in the
German pilot area “Region Upper Regen” as part of the “Test Site Sumava”, there are smaller
parts which have been intensively investigated in other research projects (around the city of
Bodenmais for example, over 30 springs have been qualitatively monitored for several
months), along the Nestos river (Greek pilot site) data exists only for seven sampling points. A
capacious listing of the sampling and monitoring campaigns carried out inside the investigated
pilot areas according to the respective pilot site leaders is included in this report (chapter 3).
In terms of the TRANSCAT project, a large available database is of course favourable to a
small one. Even more important than the amount of available data is data quality and especially
comparability of data from different sources. A few subjects important for data quality
assurance are mentioned within the chapters 4 to 7 of this report. For example, it has been
shown that on-site-monitoring may be suitable in some cases to obtain high-quality data,
while under certain circumstances it may be not. Furthermore, the definition of main indicating
parameters for each pilot area is as important for an operative Decision Support System
as the consideration of scaling effects and sampling intervals.
In the future, it is necessary to form a common standard, which can be used for data acquis ition.
Such a common standard will definitely be an enormous progress for future applications,
but for the TRANSCAT project the importance is rather the possibility to evaluate existing data
in terms of quality and comparability according to the defined standard.
Such a standard, which will be created in form of the manual for a standard procedure (task
4.3 of the TRANSCAT project, implemented by DL 4.1 - Part 2), must first of all contain the
most important information about the sampling and analysing processes as quintessence out
of the various norms and regulations existing in the different participating countries (chapter
2).
The editors want to thank all the project partners who have submitted material and information
included in this report.
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Submitted By:
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Dr Stefan Gödeke WhoDoesWhat?
Last update: 14/02/2006
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