reducing the health risks from algal toxins in drinking annd bathing waters twinning light prooject...
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Reducing the health risks from algal toxins in drinking annd
bathing waters
Twinning Light Prooject
EE06-IB-TWP-ESC-01
Main Activities in 6 months
• Assessment of the situation (raw water water works, bathing sites)
• Assessment of the current practise of management
• Installation of „improved“ monitoring and communication schemes and risk assessment strategies
• Analysis • Training
Activities (work plan)
1 Sampling plan
- inspection of local sites
- check of available data
- information concerning treatment trains and conditions - definition of relevant sampling points
- definition of critical points
- definition of „additional“ key parameters
- early warning function !!!
Activities (work plan)
2 Sampling and analysis of raw waters and different treatment trains
- routine parameters (link with training)
- cyanobacteria (link with training)
- cyanobacterial toxins (link with training)
- assessment of data
Activities (work plan)3 Training plan3.1 Sampling procedures
3.2 Identification of cyanobacterial blooms
and species composition
3.3 Analytical methods
3.4 Alert level frame work (ALF); Water safety plan (WSP)
link to TOXIC and PEPCY
Activities (work plan)
4 Training courses - Sampling - Identification of blooms, - Analysis of toxins - ALF and WSP
Activities (work plan)
Training – ALF and WSP
- design of ALF in the context of WSP
- discussion of ALF with staff in Tallin and Narva
Activities (work plan)
5 Documentation (working out ALF (WSP) and guidelines for surveillance and agreements
- sampling plan
- SOP´s for analysis
- Information flow
- Measures
- Documents
Activities (work plan)
6 Information seminars
- authorities
- staff of waterworks
- owners of bathing sites