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eC2: Development of national approaches for assessment of hydromorphological status of Surface Water Bodies and of national methodology for identification and designation of Heavily Modified Water Bodies

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Deadline: 12-Nov-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)RotterdamWaterPlein_klein

The assignment aims at filling the encountered gaps in terms of methodical base, qualitative and quantitative data for hydromorphological quality elements (HMQE), required for the assessment of the ecological status of surface water bodies (SWBs) and potential of Heavily Modified Water Bodies (HMWB) and Artificial Water Bodies (AWBs), in compliance with the WFD and most recent good practices and CIS guidance documents. The procedures are mandatory for achieving the objectives of Directive 2000/60/EC and the obligations of Bulgaria as a MS with respect to the EU water policy. The results have to provide the missing and further develop the existing methodical basis, which should regulate and guide the identification and designation of HMWBs & AWBs, the execution of further field works and monitoring programs, the interpretation of the results for HMQEs and the following assessment of the hydromorphological status of SWBs of category rivers, lakes and transitional waters as supporting the overall ecological status assessment.

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eC2: Chemical status assessment methodology reflecting the impacts of the climate changes on the status of surface water including analysis of chemical pressure, impacts, risks and status

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Deadline: 31-Oct-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

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The assignment envisages five main activities as follows: Activity 1. Pressure and impact analysis taking into account new priority pollutants included in Directive 2013/39/EC and new industrial activities. Activity 2. Chemical Status assessment methodology Activity 3: Training of experts from River Basin Directorates (RBDs) on the application of developed methodology for chemical status assessment. Activity 4. Assessment of chemical status of water bodies in the country based on defined background concentrations, refined methodologies for chemical status assessment and available results. Activity 5. Proposal for new monitoring programs including new monitoring points and pollutants for measurement. Critical evaluation of concentration of pollutants that has never been introduced in the country and never measured above EQS and proposal for their elimination from monitoring programs.

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eC2: Update delineation and characterization of the groundwater bodies at risk, including pressure and risks, and perform status assessment

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Deadline: 07-Oct-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

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The assignment envisages the following activities with regard to the 93 Ground Water Bodies (GWBs)in Bulgaria identified in the River Basin Management Plans (2016-2021) as not being in good status (63) or to be at risk of not achieving good qualitative or good chemical status (30): the implementation of the updated methodologies/approaches and delineation of the groundwater bodies, updating the characterization of GWB,
determining the background level concentration (BGL) and threshold values (TV) for contaminants in the GWB, evaluating the pressures and risks for the quantitative and chemical status applicable to the GWBs and identifying the trends,  and finally evaluating the quantitative and chemical status of the GWB.

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eC2: National groundwater quality survey and abstraction estimate

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Deadline: 24-Sep-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

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The specific objective of this assignment is to support the elaboration of the next River Basin Management Plans with the implementation of a series of field works over the groundwater bodies not being in good quantitative or chemical status and the groundwater bodies at risk not being in good status. The said field work is aiming at: 1) estimating the number of boreholes tapping each groundwater body and estimating the average pumping yields per usage, both data being necessary for estimating the total pumped yield per groundwater body; and 2) providing a series of groundwater quality analysis be used as a first countrywide groundwater sampling which might be used, in complement with every existing groundwater quantity results, to support the implementation of a state of the art quality monitoring network.

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eC2: Update national methodology for Flood Hazard & Risk Mapping (FHRM)

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Deadline: 16-Sep-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)index

The objective of this assignment is to update the national methodology for Flood Hazard and Risk Mapping to respond to requirements from the EC regarding the integration of Climate Change and the emerging need to incorporate an approach to assess the risk of Pluvial Flooding. The consultant will be required to implement the following tasks:
Task 1. Refine the flood hazard and risk mapping method to include pluvial flooding and flash floods.
Task 2. Refine the methodology to assess coastal flood hazard.
Task 3. Refine the methodology to incorporate Climate Change allowances in the flood risk assessments.
Task 4. Vulnerability and risk assessment.

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eC2: Chemical status assessment methodology reflecting the impacts of the climate changes on the status of surface water

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Deadline: 11-Jul-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

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The assignment consists of the following activities:
Activity 1. Pressure and impact analysis taking into account new priority pollutants included in Directive 2013/39/EC and new industrial activities.
Activity 2 Chemical Status assessment.
Activity 3: Training of experts on the application of developed methodology for chemical status assessment.
Activity 4. Assessment of chemical status of water bodies in the country based on defined background concentrations, refined methodologies for chemical status assessment (including application of BLM) and available results (EEA).
Activity 5. Proposal for new monitoring programs or at least proposal for new monitoring points and pollutants for measurement. Critical evaluation of concentration of pollutants that has never been introduced in the country and never measured above EQS and proposal for their elimination from monitoring programs.

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eC2: Update of the economic analysis

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Deadline: 27-Jun-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

The assignment envisages an update of the economic analysis needed for the

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preparation of the third River Basin Management Plans (RBMP) in Bulgaria. It is based on the stocktaking and gap analysis review of the second RBMPs and the European Commissions Member State Assessment Report on the second cycle RBMPs for the four river basin management areas in Bulgaria. The update of the economic analysis essentially entails a collation of analyses of available data sources to deliver the economic outputs needed. It does not involve any original research.

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eC2: Development of national methodologies for assessment of the hydromorphological status of surface water bodies of category rivers, lakes and transitional waters

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Deadline: 08-May-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washingtonwater D.C.)

Assignment Title: 1262415 – Development of national methodologies for assessment of the hydromorphological status of surface water bodies (SWB) of category rivers, lakes and transitional waters, surveying of hydro-morphological quality elements, testing and validation of methodologies and assessment of the hydromorphological status of SWBs.

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eC2: Development of national methodology for identification and designation of Heavily Modified Water Bodies (HMWBs)by further development of the national approach

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Deadline: 07-May-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) water

This assignment aims at the development of a national methodology for identification and designation of HMWBs by further development of the existing national approach and adaptation of most recent international best practices. The methodology should comply with the Water Framework Directive and the relevant Common Implementation Strategy Guidance documents and should simultaneously consider the local specifics and the identified deficiencies during the previous cycles of River Basin Management Plans (RBMPs). It should largely (at this stage for 3rd RBMP) be based on available data regarding the various modifications and any appraisal guidance for them and any findings of such appraisals. A testing of the methodology with application of the “mitigation measures” methods for all types of physical modifications and uses of the surface water bodies is planned within the frame of the assignment by the use of readily available data.

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eC2:Determination of the capacity of water bodies to take nutrient pollution

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Deadline: 02-May-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)waterkraan-nieuws-header

The assignment comprises of three main activities:
Activity 1: Identification and quantification of the factors determining the self-purification ability of different types of water bodies of categories river, lake and transitional waters
Activity 2: Identification of the impact of different concentrations of nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus forms) on the ecological status of the different types of water bodies of categories river, lake and transitional waters
Activity 3: Development, testing and validation of methodology/mathematical models for determining the capacity of different types of water bodies of categories river, lake and transitional waters

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