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Integrated Nutrients Pollution ControlLN 4873 – RO

WBTF 050327-RO

MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND FORESTS

Project Management Unit

Government of Romania Global Environment Facility The World Bank

Belgrade, October 4-6, 2010



Danube Basin

CatchmentArea: 817,000 km2

Danube’s average

annual discharge:

6,430 m3 /sec.

1. Germany

2. Austria3. Slovakia

4. Hungary

5. FYR Countries

6. Bulgaria

7. Romania8. Moldova

9. Ukraine

Countries in

the Basin:



ROMANIA – GENERAL INFORMATION

Area: 238,392 km2

Population: 22.7 mil. inh.

Capital: Bucharest

No. of Counties: 42

Large Cities: 7

Communes: 2,686

Agricultural

Land: 14.9 mil. ha

Forests: 6.4 mil. ha

International Waters

(Danube River): 1.075 km

National Waters: 9,301 km



SH PRUT-BARLAD

SH SIRET

SH MURES

SH OLT

SH BUZAU-IALOMITA

SH ARGES-VEDEA

SH JIU

SH BANAT

SH CRISURI

SH SOMES-TISA

SH DOBROGEA-LITORAL

Romania

River Basins units



Nitrate Vulnerable Zones as approved

through the common Order 241/196 issued

by the Ministry of Environment and WaterManagement and Ministry of Agriculture,

Forests and Rural Development





Project Objectives

The main objectives of the Project are to reduce the discharge of nutrients in

the water bodies and promote behavior changes by:

- demonstrative activities at the communes level;

- providing support to the Government of Romania for

strengthening the institutional and regulation capacity to comply with

the EU requirements in the water protection area.





Project Financing

IBRD Loan: EURO 50 mil.

GEF Grant: US$ 5.5 mil. (aprox. EURO 4 mil.)

Local contribution from beneficiaries: EUR 6 mil.

Total Project value: EURO 60 mil.



Project Components

Component 1: Investments at commune level in the Nitrate VulnerableZones (45.95 mil. euro)

Component 2: Institutional Strengthening and Capacity Building(5.90 mil. euro)

Component 3: Public Awareness and Replication Strategy(2.58 mil. euro)

Component 4: Project Management (5.57 mil. euro)



Component 1

Investments at commune level in the Nitrate Vulnerable Areas

Provide support to 86 localities, designated as Nitrates Vulnerable Zones, toimplement sub-projects in the following areas:

(i) improve the commune level systems for a better collecting, storage andmanagement of the animal and household waste.

(ii) planting vegetative buffer strips and rehabilitation of some communal pastures;

(iii) water and sanitation;

(iv) promoting adoption by farmers of the environment-friendly nutrients

management practices recommended by the Code of Good Agricultural Practices;(v) preparation of Feasibility Studies for improvement of services for water andwaste waters; and

(vi) testing and demonstration of the feasibility to produce biogas and energy fromlivestock manure and household organic waste through anaerobic digestion.



Pollution sources and improper waste management practicesthat must be stopped.

• Livestock manure, mixed withhousehold waste is accumulatedand stored in improper conditionsat the household level.

• The urine from animals and the

water from precipitations isinfiltrating the soil and pollute thewater resources.



Pollution sources and improper waste management practicesthat must be stopped.

• Periodically, the livestockmanure, mixed wit householdwaste is evacuated from thehouseholds and dumped in un-authorized places.

• As result, large areas of agricultural lands are occupiedwith waste that pollute soilsand water.



What is proposed through the Project

Support the local communities for the rehabilitation of the un-authorized waste storages andreturning the land to agriculture.



Provision of individual platforms.



Provision of bins for separate collection of the household waste



Construction of commune level manure collection and storage platforms.



Provision of equipment for manure management



Organize a system for collection and use of the household produced manure.

Manure collection andtransport by the farmerswith their own means.

Build on the equipmentprovided by the projectand organize a system atthe commune level for manure collection and

use.



Organize the composting system.

Training of theplatforms’administrators

Conducting thecomposting system

Compost spreading onthe agricultural land



Separate collection of the reusable materials.

Separate bunkers for glass, plastic and

metal.



Creation of vegetative buffers

Information activities for the young generation.

Practicaldemonstrations.

Identification of thedegraded lands.

Results.

Planting.



Water and Sanitation.

Separate collection of thelivestock manure createconditions for surface waterssanitation.

Nutrients discharge favor thedevelopment of the aquaticvegetation and water eutrophication.

Improper protection of thewell head facilitates theground water pollution bydirect infiltrations.

The nitrate content in thepublic wells in the ruralcommunities overcomeseveral times the maximumacceptable concentration.



Water and Sanitation – Support provided by the Project.

Awareness and informationactivities regarding the protectionof the soil and water resources

against nutrients pollution.

Demonstration of well heads

protection.

Provision of quick testing kits for nitrate.



Water and Sanitation – Support provided by the Project.

Support for therehabilitation of someexisting degraded wastewater treatment plants.

Preparation of the

Feasibility Study for theimprovement of theservices for water andsanitation to be financedfrom EU funds.

Construction of sewage

and waste waterstreatment plants in twoTDS communes



Promote adoption by farmers of good agricultural practices in nutrients

management recommended by the Code of Good Agricultural Practices



Weed control

Crops rotation

Pastures

rehabilitation

Conservativesoil works

Fertilization

Agro-forestry

practices

Nutrientsmanagement

Agricultural

practices

Demonstration of some improved agricultural practices, including integratednutrients management and crops rotation.



Weed

control

Crops rotation

Pastures

rehabilitation

Conservativesoil works

Fertilization

Agro-forestry

practices

Nutrientsmanagement

Agricultural

practices



1. Update the legislation on soil and water protection in line with EU regulation related to EU NitrateDirective and Water Framework Directives with an emphasis on clarifying implementation andcoordination activities across agencies.

2. Support ANAR to lead inter-agencies working groups at the river basin and county level for theEU Nitrate Directive and to report to EU and Ministry of Environment on such activities throughthe completion and equipment of the ANAR’s training facility and the acquisition of the equipmentfor groundwater wells and mobile and in-situ sampling and laboratory equipment.

3. Carrying out a comprehensive training program for the staff of relevant national, regional andcounty level agencies members of the river basin working groups for the EU Nitrate Directive.

4. Carrying out training programs for the Beneficiaries to enable them to access EU funds, includingpreparation, implementation and project management.

5. Designing the capacity building system able to support the scaling up, at the national level, of the

implementation process of the EU directives framework.

Component 2: Institutional Strengthening and Capacity Building



Purchase of the equipment for ground water wells and equipment for mobilelaboratories and field investigations, for strengthening the capacity of ANAR for

water quality monitoring.

• Vehicles – 11 pcs.

• In situ instruments for monitoring of temperature and level of groundwater in piezometers – 150 pcs.

• Portable automatic device for determination of chlorophyll „a” and micro-algae analysis in surface waters

(rivers, lake and marine waters) – 9 pcs.

• Spectrofotometer UV-VIS – 28 pcs.

• TOC Analyzer with auto sampler – 5 pcs.

• Chemical extraction hoods – 7 pcs.

• Double distillation water stills – 10 pcs.

• Analytical balances – 21 pcs.

• Technical balances – 11 pcs.

• Drying ovens – 9 pcs.

• Ultra-pure water systems – 5 pcs.

• Equipment for monitoring wells purging and pumping – 54 pcs.

• Groundwater sampling equipment – 54 pcs.

• Invertoscops for viewing biological samples in light field - pcs. 10



Purchase of the equipment for ground water wells and equipment for mobilelaboratories and field investigations, for strengthening the capacity of ANAR for

water quality monitoring.



Completion and equipment of the ANAR’s training facility and development of acomplex training program for staff.



Training of the specialists involved in the Nitrate Directive implementationand monitoring

Carrying out an intensive training program for specialists from ANAR on the following topicsrelated to water quality monitoring:

– Determination of total organic carbon (TOC) and Total nitrogen (TN) - 18 persons trained. – Using molecular absorption spectrometry in visible mode and in the ultraviolet (UV-VIS) -

42 persons trained. – Using ArcGIS in monitoring activities - 39 persons trained. – Training for technicians on sampling procedures - 100 persons trained. – Determination of nutrients and metals in water, sediments and suspensions - 32 persons

trained. – The analysis of phytoplankton and phytobenthos algae – persons trained.

– The analysis of benthic macroinvertebrates – persons trained.





Component 3: Public Awareness and Replication Strategy

Carrying out of public awareness activities at local, river basin, national and regional levelsincluding workshops, field visits, study tours and other mass media events and products, tointroduce the project and its benefits, to promote a better sanitation in the rural environment inNitrate Vulnerable Zones and implementation of the good agricultural practices, and to promotereplication of activities under the project in other counties as well as in other Black Sea riparian

countries and EU candidate countries.



Events



Contests – Awards for the best results in tree planting



Flopi and water campaign



Pictures extibition, 2003

Exhibitions



Promotional materials



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