Investigative monitoring within the European Water Framework Directive: a coastal blast furnace slag disposal, as an example.

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Angel Borja,Itziar Tueros, Belzunce,Ibon Galparsoro,Joxe Mikel Garmendia,Marta Revilla,Oihana Solaun,Victoriano Valencia,

The European Water Framework Directive (WFD) establishes a framework for the protection of estuarine and coastal waters, with the most important objective being to achieve 'good ecological status' for all waters, by 2015. Hence, Member States are establishing programmes for the monitoring of water quality status, through the assessment of ecological and chemical elements. These monitoring programmes can be of three types: surveillance monitoring; operational monitoring (both undertaken on a routine basis); and investigative monitoring (carried out where the reason of any exceedance for ecological and chemical status is unknown). Until now, nothing has been developed in relation to investigative monitoring and no clear guidance exists for this type of monitoring, as it must be tackled on a 'case-by-case' basis. Consequently, the present study uses slag disposal from a blast furnace, into a coastal area, as a case-study in the implementation of investigative monitoring, according to the WFD.In order to investigate the potential threat of such slags, this contribution includes: a geophysical study, to determine the extent of the disposal area; sediment analysis; a chemical metal analysis; and an ecotoxicological study (including a Microtox(R) test and an amphipod bioassay). The results show that metal concentrations are several times above the background concentration. However, only one of the stations showed toxicity after acute toxicological tests, with the benthic communities being in a good status. The approaches used here show that contaminants are not bioavailable and that no management actions are required with the slags.

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A Borja,I Tueros,MJ Belzunce,I Galparsoro,JM Garmendia,M Revilla,O Solaun,V Valencia,

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Journal: Journal of environmental monitoring : JEM

VOLUME: 10

Page Numbers: 453-62

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ISSN: 1464-0325

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YEAR: 2008

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AFFILIATION: AZTI-Tecnalia, Marine Research Division, Herrera Kaia, Portualdea s/n, Pasaia 20110, Spain. aborja@pas.azti.es.

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