Government of Romania Global Environment Facility The World Bank

Integrated Nutrients Pollution Control

LN 4873 – RO
WBTF 050327-RO

MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND FORESTS

Belgrade, October 4-6, 2010

Project Management Unit

Danube Basin
Countries in
the Basin:
1. Germany
2. Austria
3. Slovakia
4. Hungary
5. FYR Countries
6. Bulgaria
7. Romania
8. Moldova
9. Ukraine

Catchment
Area: 817,000 km2
Danube’s average
annual discharge:
6,430 m3/sec.
 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
 Romania
River Basins units

SH SOMES-TISA

SH SIRET
SH CRISURI
SH PRUT-
BARLAD

SH MURES

SH OLT

SH BANAT

SH DOBROGEA-LITORAL
SH BUZAU-IALOMITA
SH JIU

SH ARGES-VEDEA
 Nitrate Vulnerable Zones as approved
through the common Order 241/196 issued
by the Ministry of Environment and Water
Management 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 Vulnerable

Zones (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, to

implement sub-projects in the following areas:
(i) improve the commune level systems for a better collecting, storage and
management 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 and
waste waters; and
(vi) testing and demonstration of the feasibility to produce biogas and energy from
livestock manure and household organic waste through anaerobic digestion.
 Pollution sources and improper waste management practices
that must be stopped.

• Livestock manure, mixed with

household waste is accumulated
and stored in improper conditions
at the household level.

• The urine from animals and the

water from precipitations is
infiltrating the soil and pollute the
water resources.
 Pollution sources and improper waste management practices
that must be stopped.

• Periodically, the livestock

manure, mixed wit household
waste is evacuated from the
households and dumped in un-
authorized places.

• As result, large areas of

agricultural lands are occupied
with waste that pollute soils
and water.
 What is proposed through the Project

Support the local communities for the rehabilitation of the un-authorized waste storages and
returning 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 and

transport by the farmers
with their own means.

Build on the equipment

provided by the project
and organize a system at
the commune level for
manure collection and
use.
 Organize the composting system.

Training of the
platforms’
administrators

Conducting the
composting system

Compost spreading on
the 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.

Practical
demonstrations.

Identification of the
degraded lands.

Planting.

Results.
 Water and Sanitation.

Separate collection of the

livestock manure create
conditions for surface waters
sanitation.

Nutrients discharge favor the

development of the aquatic
vegetation and water
eutrophication.

Improper protection of the

well head facilitates the
ground water pollution by
direct infiltrations.

The nitrate content in the

public wells in the rural
communities overcome
several times the maximum
acceptable concentration.
 Water and Sanitation – Support provided by the Project.

Awareness and information

activities regarding the protection
of 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 the

rehabilitation of some
existing degraded waste
water treatment plants.

Construction of sewage
and waste waters
treatment plants in two
TDS communes

Preparation of the
Feasibility Study for the
improvement of the
services for water and
sanitation to be financed
from EU funds.
Promote adoption by farmers of good agricultural practices in nutrients
management recommended by the Code of Good Agricultural Practices
Demonstration of some improved agricultural practices, including integrated
nutrients management and crops rotation.

Weed control

Nutrients
Crops rotation
management

Agricultural
practices
Agro-forestry Pastures
practices rehabilitation

Conservative
Fertilization
soil works
 Weed
control

Nutrients
Crops rotation
management

Agricultural
practices
Agro-forestry Pastures
practices rehabilitation

Conservative
Fertilization
soil works
Component 2: Institutional Strengthening and Capacity Building

1. Update the legislation on soil and water protection in line with EU regulation related to EU Nitrate
Directive and Water Framework Directives with an emphasis on clarifying implementation and
coordination activities across agencies.
2. Support ANAR to lead inter-agencies working groups at the river basin and county level for the
EU Nitrate Directive and to report to EU and Ministry of Environment on such activities through
the completion and equipment of the ANAR’s training facility and the acquisition of the equipment
for 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 and
county 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, including
preparation, 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.
 Purchase of the equipment for ground water wells and equipment for mobile
laboratories 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 mobile
laboratories 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 a
complex training program for staff.
Training of the specialists involved in the Nitrate Directive implementation
and monitoring

Carrying out an intensive training program for specialists from ANAR on the following topics
related 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.
Training of the specialists involved in the Nitrate Directive implementation
and monitoring

The target group (about 300-365 professionals) includes personnel involved in implementing and
monitoring the provisions of the Nitrates Directive, from the national, regional and territorial
institutions, as follows:
– Ministry of Environment and Forests;
– Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
– National Administration Romanian Waters (ANAR) and subordinate units;
– County Departments of Agriculture and Rural Development (DADR), focusing on those
located in counties with areas nutrient vulnerable area. Courses will focus on
professionals working as inspectors for the Nitrates Directive;
– National regional and local environmental protection agencies, focusing on those
located in counties with nutrient vulnerable areas. Courses will focus on professionals
working in regulatory departments;
– Regional and local environmental commissariats, focusing on those located in counties
with nutrient vulnerable areas. Courses will focus on professionals working in
agriculture;
– Staff from the local Water Management Systems (SGA), County Offices for Pedology and
Agrochemistry Studies (OJSPA), National Agency for Agricultural Consulting (ANCA)
and Local Centers for Agricultural Consultancy (CLCA).
 Component 3: Public Awareness and Replication Strategy

Carrying out of public awareness activities at local, river basin, national and regional levels
including workshops, field visits, study tours and other mass media events and products, to
introduce the project and its benefits, to promote a better sanitation in the rural environment in
Nitrate Vulnerable Zones and implementation of the good agricultural practices, and to promote
replication 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
Exhibitions

Pictures extibition, 2003

Promotional materials
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