European Fundend Projects

  • ID:
    projects-625
  • fiwar:
    LIFE07 ENV/L/000540
  • Project_Acronym:
    M³
  • Project_Name:
    Application of integrative modelling and monitoring approaches for river basin management evaluation
  • Funding Authority:
    LIFE
  • Call for proposals:
    Environment
  • Focus Area:
    River basin management
  • Begin Date:
    2009-01-01
  • End Date:
    2012-12-31
  • Status:
    Completed
  • Budget:
    € 002 477 981.00
  • Description:
    The M3 project aimed to test in the field a combination of monitoring and modelling approaches that could inform decision-making processes concerning cost-effective measures for managing river basins in accordance with the WFD. Scientific concepts were to be tested to optimise their potential for supporting decision-makers during the planning and monitoring of the efficiency of river basin management measures in Luxembourg as well as the Dutch Delfland region and German Erft river basin. Specific objectives included demonstrating monitoring techniques that went beyond grab sampling techniques in terms of high-frequency sampling, continuous monitoring (passive sampling), sampling and analysis of different phases (solution, solids), flow component analysis and monitoring design using these techniques in an optimal fashion for the quantification of different pressures (e.g. included nutrients, pesticides, urban emissions like metals, PAHs and pharmaceuticals). Project funds were also used to test the applicability of emission models in catchments ranging from yearly substance flow analysis tools to process related dynamic models running on a daily or even sub-daily basis. Other proposed project features involved: carrying out scenario-building and outcome forecasts for river basin management measures; and demonstrating the usefulness of Water Quality models with a classical transport-chemical fate model for pollutant propagation and concentration prediction, as well as an ecological-ecotoxicological model that would be able to predict effects on food webs in surface waters.
  • Resource:
    https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/life/publicWebsite/project/LIFE07-ENV-L-000540/application-of-integrative-modelling-and-monitoring-approaches-for-river-basin-management-evaluation
  • Inland water types:
    Rivers and estuaries'