ROMANIA AGRICULTURAL POLLUTION CONTROL PROJECT

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ROMANIAAGRICULTURAL POLLUTION CONTROL PROJECT

• Project Management Unit
• Moldova, Chisinau, October 3, 2006

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Use of PROXI methods for measuring results of
Agricultural Pollution Control Project,
implemented in Calarasi, Romania
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Project Financing Sources

• Total value USD 10.8 mil. out of which
• USD 5.15 mil. World Bank from GEF funds
• USD 1.86 mil. Government of Romania
• USD 0.29 mil. Calarasi County Council
• USD 1.00 mil. from the governmental Agricultural
  Support Services Project
• USD 2.50 mil. (in kind) by direct beneficiaries.

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Project Interventions

• Investments
• Manure Management
• Windbreak/Shelter belts
• Riparian Buffers
• Nutrient Management Plans
• Wellhead Protection
• Grazing Management
• Conservation Tillage
• Training and Technical Assistance
• Public Awareness

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Identified sources of pollution with nutrients

• At household level

Inappropriate manure storage
Aggravating factors
Lack off or bad conditions of the concrete slab
protecting the water well against direct
infiltrations
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Identified sources of pollution with nutrients

• At commune level

Inappropriate manure disposal
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Identified sources of pollution with nutrients

• At commune level

Inappropriate manure disposal
Grazing of animals on soil erosion prone areas
Temporary housing near watercourses
Large areas of slopped land draining into
watercourses
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Project Interventions
At household level
Individual Platforms
Plastic Bins for waste segregation
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Project Interventions
At household level At commune level
Reclamation of former unauthorized manure storages
Construction and operation of manure storage and
composting facilities
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Project Interventions
At commune level
Demonstrations of well head rehabilitation
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Project Interventions
At commune level
Riparian Buffers with forest vegetation
Windbreaks, Shelterbelts
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Project Interventions
At commune level
Riparian Buffers with forest vegetation
Windbreaks, Shelterbelts
Grazing Management
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Nitrate concentration in Piezometers
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Drinking water quality
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Measuring results of nutrient pollution control
interventions

• Monitoring the nutrients concentration into the
  surface and ground water at representative
  sampling stations and review of eutrophic state
  of the surface waters at regular intervals.
• Use of PROXI methods.

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Measuring nutrients concentration into the ground
and surface waters

• Strong points
• It shows the actual quality of the ground and
  surface waters at designated measuring stations.
• Weak points
• The existing sampling stations could be not
  representative for project interventions.
• The frequency of measurements could not catch
  stochastic events as storm rains, snow melting or
  variable factors as fertilizers or manure
  applications.
• The trend of nutrient concentration does not
  reflect only the project interventions.
• It is expensive.

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Why use the PROXI methods?

• Are based on extensive scientific research.
• Allow assessment of total results of a variety of
  diverse interventions.
• Are cheap and offer good accuracy.
• Allow for quantitative estimate in terms of
  nutrient pollution reduction using the survey
  results.
• Allow for forecasting of results of new projects
  implementing the same nutrient pollution control
  interventions.

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Reduction of nutrients loss into the ground and
surface waters due to appropriate manure
management
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Before Project (Year 2000)
Nutrients in fresh manure
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We can assume that about 20 of the nutrients in
the manure used as fertilizer in the back yard
vegetable garden is lost and 100 of nutrients
from fresh dumped manure are leached into
water.With these figures, the nutrients subject
to leaching into ground and surface waters are
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During the year 2005, the communes reported the
collection, composting and use as fertilizer of
the following manure quantities
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Year 2005 (Project year 4)
Assuming that the quantity of manure produced
each year is almost the same as at the Project
preparation (the same structure and number of
animals), during the year 2005, the use of the
manure was as follows
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In a normal rotation of maize-sunflower-wheat-whea
t, the nutrients from one tone of composted
manure is used as follows
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With these figures, the potential discharge of
nutrients from produced manure was as follows
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Reduction of nutrients discharge
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The quantity of nutrients supplied with the
manure (22,950 tons), applied as fertilizer are
Therefore, for the same targeted yields, the
quantity of the mineral fertilizers usually
applied can be reduced with the amount supplied
with the applied manure.
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Reduction due to adoption of the
environment-friendly agricultural practices
demonstrated by the Project
According with the data received from the
Direction for Agriculture and Rural Development
Calarasi (DADR), the quantities of nutrients from
factory made fertilizers applied in the year
2005, in the Project area, were as follows
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Assuming that in the case of the conventional
agriculture, 20 of the applied nutrients are
lost by leaching, the quantities discharged into
waters are
Assuming the reduction of nutrients discharge
with 10 as result of the adoption of
environment-friendly agricultural practices
demonstrated by the Project and the adoption of
the Code of Good Agricultural Practices
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Total reduction of the nutrients discharge into
the waters in the Project area, year 2005, as
result of project interventions
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Thank you for your attention
Project Management Unit Agricultural Pollution
Control Tel [phone].242.001
021.317.04.03Fax [phone] E-mail
office_at_apcp.ro www.apcp.ro