EGU23-15997
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-15997
EGU General Assembly 2023
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Development, data modelling of environmental geochemical monitoring of fluvial (suspended, river bottom, floodplain) sediments using unique automated and passive sampling for the contamination risk assessment according to the EU WFD in the Danube Basin

Zsófia Kovács1, Győző Jordán, Péter Szabó, Mária Bálint, and the SIMONA Project Team*
Zsófia Kovács et al.
  • 1National Laboratory for Water Science and Water Security, Sustainability Solutions Research Laboratory, University of Pannonia, Hungary, zsofia.kovacs@outlook.com
  • *A full list of authors appears at the end of the abstract

This study reports on the unique results of the recently concluded Sediment-quality Information, Monitoring and Assessment System to Support Transnational Cooperation for Joint Danube Basin Water Management (SIMONA) project, the largest of its kind in Europe, which was carried out in 2018-2022 as a project of the EU DTP aiming at delivering a ready-to-deploy sediment-quality monitoring system for the effective and comparable measurements and assessment of sediment quality in surface waters in the Danube River Basin in accordance with the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD). The project has developed, tested, demonstrated an innovative environmental geochemical monitoring platform of fluvial (suspended, river bottom and floodplain) sediments using state-of-the-art automated and passive sampling technology for the contamination risk assessment according to the EU WFD in the Danube Basin. Time series analysis and signal processing of one year multi-variate and multi-matrice monitoring data could be used to identify the geochemical background, temporal trends, periodicities and contamination events in the studied EU-defined Hazardous Substances. Since the applied technology, methods and data interpretation is fully consistent with EU legislation risk assessment, results may provide a ‘best solution’ for the spatial and temporal discrimination of contamination. Results of biological contamination assessment of sediments using microbial tests are also presented.

Keywords: data analysis, geochemistry, mobility, speciation, enrichment, time series analysis

SIMONA Project Team:

Albert BALTRES, Sándor BARANYA, Vladica CVETKOVIĆ, Teja ČERU, Neda DEVIĆ, Meta DOBNIKAR, Katalin Mária DUDÁS, Petyo FILIPOV, Lidija GALOVIĆ, Anna GIBALOVÁ, Ismir HAJDAREVIĆ, Jarmila HALÍŘOVÁ, Edith HASLINGER, Atanas HIKOV, Barbara KÉRI, Zuzana KERŠŇÁKOVÁ, Paul KINNER, Volodymyr KLOS, Tanja KNOLL, Jozef KORDÍK, Kristina KORET, Gheorghe IEPURE, Danijel IVANIŠEVIĆ, Ana ČAIĆ JANKOVIĆ, Prvoslav MARJANOVIĆ, Libor MIKL, Zlatka MILALOVSKA, Ivan MIŠUR, Mária MÖRTL, Daniel NASUI, Igor NICOARĂ, Jarmila NOVÁKOVÁ, Toni NIKOLIĆ, Sebastian PFLEIDERER, Slobodan RADUSINOVIĆ, Heinz REITNER, Kristina ŠARIĆ, Pavel STIERAND, Igor STRÍČEK, Ajka ŠORŠA, András SZAKÁCS, Zsolt SZAKÁCS, Eszter TAKÁCS, Barbara TRÄXLER, Milena VETSEVA, Anca-Marina VIJDEA, Dragica VULIĆ.

How to cite: Kovács, Z., Jordán, G., Szabó, P., and Bálint, M. and the SIMONA Project Team: Development, data modelling of environmental geochemical monitoring of fluvial (suspended, river bottom, floodplain) sediments using unique automated and passive sampling for the contamination risk assessment according to the EU WFD in the Danube Basin, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-15997, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-15997, 2023.