The Stakeholder Meeting of the "Implementation of the Total Maximum Daily Load Approach in the Gediz Basin Project" was held in Manisa on August 27, 2015 by the Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs General Directorate of Water Management and TÜBİTAK MAM Environment and Cleaner Production Institute.
The meeting started with opening speeches by Prof. Dr. Cumali KINACI, General Director of Water Management of the Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs (MoFWA), Sıdkı ZEHİN, Deputy Governor of Manisa, Dr. Selma AYAZ, Deputy Director of TÜBİTAK MAM ÇTÜE and Sami GÜZEL, Deputy Director of DSİ 2nd Regional Directorate. Representatives of the Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs, Ministry of Environment and Urbanization, Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock as well as representatives of various public institutions and organizations and industry representatives representing individual and Organized Industrial Zones attended the meeting.
On behalf of TUBITAK-MAM, Dr. Selma AYAZ, Deputy Director of the Institute of Environment and Cleaner Production, presented the ongoing and completed projects of the Institute, listed the other project studies that will form the basis of the project in question, and expressed the importance of the project. Afterwards, Prof. Dr. Ülkü YETİŞ, Lecturer at METU Department of Environmental Engineering, presented "Hazardous Substances that pose a Risk to Water Resources: Concept and Harmful Effects". Dr. Betül Hande GÜRSOY HAKSEVENLER, Project Coordinator, gave a detailed informative presentation to all participants on the scope and stages of the project and the benefits and outputs of the project. It was stated that the approach to be applied in this project is aimed to be disseminable for all basins in Turkey and that the program of measures and the guidance document are important outputs of the project. After the presentations, the meeting was concluded by taking the opinions and suggestions of all participants representing public institutions and industrial facilities about the project.
Prof. Dr. Cumali KINACI, Director General of Water Management of the Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs Cumali KINACI stated that the General Directorate of Water Management, which was established on July 4, 2011 with the aim of ensuring the management of our water resources from a single source with an integrated approach and eliminating the lack of coordination in water management, has been carrying out many studies within the scope of the harmonization process with the European Union Environmental Acquis in order to ensure the control and prevention of water pollution and the sustainable use of our water resources by considering the protection-utilization balance, that a basin-based approach has been adopted in water management, and that the Gediz Basin Protection Action Plan has been prepared by TÜBİTAK MAM.
Two of the three projects carried out by OSİB in order to identify hazardous substances in surface water resources including coastal and transitional waters as a result of point source discharges and diffuse pollution and to determine the limit values and environmental quality standards (EQS) that should not be exceeded in the receiving environment in order to prevent any adverse effects on human and environmental health have been completed by TÜBİTAK MAM ÇTÜE. The first of these projects is "Determination of Hazardous Substances in Coastal and Transitional Waters of Turkey and Ecological Coastal Dynamics (KIYITEMA) Project" (2012-2014) and the other one is "Investigation of Hazardous Substances, Pesticides, from Agricultural Activities (BİKOP) Project" (2012-2014). With the aforementioned projects, Turkey-specific point and diffuse source hazardous substances that are likely to be found in our coastal and transit waters were identified, a comprehensive sectoral inventory was prepared for point source hazardous substances, an inventory was created on the basis of product pattern for diffuse source plant protection products, and monitoring studies were carried out for one year in order to determine the levels of these substances in receiving environments. "Project for the Implementation of the Total Maximum Daily Load (GMTY) Approach in the Gediz Basin" is a project to be carried out on the basis of ÇKSs, which is an important output of these projects. With this project, the current quality of receiving environments for point and non-point source pollutants, which put intense pressure on our water resources, will be revealed, it will be checked whether or not the CQSs, which are planned to be transferred to the legislation by the end of 2015, are exceeded, and in cases where the CQSs are exceeded, pollution reduction needs will be determined on a load basis. By applying this approach in Gediz Basin, pollution mitigation scenarios will be produced for all point and diffuse pollutant sources, the methodology to be followed during the transition to discharge standards will be determined, discharge standards will be developed for the parameters for which GWQS are determined in the basin in line with the determined methodology, and a methodology that can be applied in other basins will be determined.
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