Problems Asocciated with not Properly Conducted WFD Based Monitoring During Preparation of River Basin Management Plans – Bregalnica River Case Study
2016
Krstić, Svetislav (Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Skopje (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia)) | Stafilov, Trajče (Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Skopje (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia)) | Zdravkovski, Zoran (Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Skopje (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia)) | Kostadinovski, Mitko (Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Skopje (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia)) | Slavevska-Stamenković, Valentina (Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Skopje (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia)) | Kostov, Vasko (Institute of Cattle Breeding, Skopje (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia))
Preparation of the River Basin Management Plans (RBMP) requires postulation and implementation of at least a one year surveillance monitoring of the selected water bodies in the catchment. The monitoring should be as comprehensive as possible, focused on detection of reference conditions and should reveal the water bodies’ ecological status and the crucial deviations from the natural conditions on which the measures in the plan are to be developed. In countries like Macedonia, where the regular monitoring activities (past and present) are very limited and not based on the Water Framework Directive (WFD) principles, the process of management plan preparation is the principal opportunity to achieving the baseline data. Nevertheless, since the funds for these types of activities are usually obtained from interna tional donors, the profit driven environment distorts the monitoring fundamentals and produces doubtful monitoring results which are quite difficult to correct in subsequent updates of water management plans. This work is based on the case study of the Bregalnica River (Macedonia), where only two full sampling campaigns of full scale WFD monitoring were conducted on the physico-chemical parameters, hydromorphological and biological quality elements. The aim of this study is to present and to comment on the obtained results. The results clearly point to the lack of a sufficient amount of data for the catchment characterization, identification of reference conditions and assessment of ecological status as required by the WFD.
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