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Councilor Antonio Cerda noted that the Region of Murcia is a leader in surveillance and control activities of the marine environment
The Minister of Agriculture and Water, Antonio Cerdá, and the president of the Port Authority of Cartagena, Adrian Angel Viudes, today signed a collaboration agreement for the control and monitoring of land-sea discharges and water quality in port area.
Cerdá stressed the need for this agreement "to ensure the quality of coastal waters and prevent physical and chemical deterioration, and support productive uses related to port activities with environmental goals."
The adviser also emphasized that that agreement will boost participation, measures to help reduce impacts, to introduce guidelines on the management of sewage and rainwater in port environments and define biological indicators consistent with the activity. "
Under this agreement the Department is committed to designing a training program for staff of the Port Authority of Cartagena and to cooperate with the agency to establish operational guidelines for the control and monitoring of land-sea discharges and the quality of waters in the port area.
Also determine the resources required for the provision of personnel carrying out these tasks, as well as a protocol for the steps to follow in cases of detection of a discharge from land to the port waters.
For its part, the Port Authority agrees to participate in the inspection plans approved by the Autonomous Community, so that the staff of its Division of Safety and Environment and the Security Service and Police to perform the tasks of collecting, making and custody of samples, which are identified in the plan, in the case of discharges land-sea.
The agreement envisages the creation of a Monitoring Committee comprising representatives of both institutions, and its duration is two years.
Murcia is ahead
The counselor noted that "the Region of Murcia is a leader in surveillance and control activities of the marine environment," citing the implementation of a Network Monitoring and Control of the quality of coastal waters Murcia (2009-2010), including the Mar Menor coastal lagoon, through 72 sampling stations in which measurements in the water column, sediment and biological organisms, as well as control and monitor the status of the Posidonia Oceanica.
This Cerdá-Red-highlighted "was designed primarily to meet the requirements of the Water Framework Directive, and is a pioneer against other networks Mediterranean communities because it includes the assessment of ecological status by consensus metric for groups international scientific work. "
The manager also described as a pioneering regional national Surveillance Network Quality of Bathing Water, launched this year, for which design has taken into account "the coastal bathing areas that could be affected by any pressure and possible risk of impact of human activities. "
Regarding the Mar Menor cited the research project being carried out, to be completed later this year on the effects of discharges that are occurring now in the lagoon, by applying a mathematical model for study of the dispersion.
The study, "concluded Cerdá-" will allow the Administration greater control and surveillance of such discharges. "
There are currently a total of 28 authorized discharges from land to sea in the Region of Murcia, which represents an approximate volume of 2,500 million cubic meters a year.
Discharges of industrial origin come mainly from companies located in the bay of Cartagena.
Source: CARM
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