INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR THE BOTHNIAN BAY

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BOTHNIAN BAY LIFE

• INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR THE BOTHNIAN BAY
• Finnish-Swedish co-operation towards sustainable
  development

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Project objectives

• To get a general view of the state of the
  Bothnian Bay and the factors affecting it
• To improve information exchange on environmental
  issues between industries and municipal and
  regional authorities in Finland and Sweden
• To develop guidelines for the integrated
  management and monitoring of the Bothnian Bay

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The Bothnian Bay is sensitive to pollution load

• Low salt concentration, harsh winter with ice
  coverage and humic rivers play a major role in
  the life of the Bothnian Bay
• Most of the pollution load originates from
  industrial plants, population centres, and rivers
  flowing into the bay
• Acidity is a severe problem in areas under the
  influence of sulphate soils

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Project participants

• Funding
• the European Union Life Environment (520 000
  Euros)
• Partners and co-financiers (529 000 Euros)
• Project partners
• North Ostrobothnia, Lapland and West Finland
  Regional Environment Centres in Finland (NOREC,
  LAPREC, WFREC)
• County Administrations of Norrbotten and
  Västerbotten in Sweden (CAN, CAV)
• Co-financiers and other participants
• Municipalities, towns, and industry plants on the
  Bothnian Bay coast
• Finnish-Swedish Frontier Rivers Commission
• Regional Council of Northern Ostrobothnia
• Consultants

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Co-financiers and other participants

• The Finnish-Swedish Frontier Rivers Commission
• Regional Council of Northern Ostrobothnia

• Municipalities and industries on the Bothnian Bay
  coast
• Hailuoto Haukipudas
• Ii Kalix
• Kemi Keminmaa
• Kempele Kokkola
• Kuivaniemi Luulaja
• Oulu Pietarsaari
• Piteå Raahe
• Tornio

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Industrial plants in the Bothnian Bay area

• Avesta Polarit Ltd, Tornio
• Billerud Karlsborg Ltd
• Boliden Mineral Ltd, Skellefteå
• Kappa Kraftliner Piteå
• Oy Metsä-Botnia Ltd, Kemi cellulose
  mill
• Outokumpu Zinc Ltd, Kokkola
• OMG Kokkola
• Rautaruukki Ltd, Raahe
• SCA Packaging Munksund Ltd, Piteå
• SSAB Tunnplåt Ltd, Luleå

• Stora Enso Ltd, Veitsiluoto plants, Kemi
• Stora Enso Ltd, Oulu
• UPM-Kymmene Ltd, Wisaforest, Pietarsaari

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Organisation
Steering group Partners, co-financiers
Management team
Project group
Project manager Anne Laine Project coordinator
Jan Albertsson
Environmental Information Database
Water Quality and Eutrophication Model
BAT Information Exchange System
Bothnian Bay Action Plan
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The four subprojects

• 1. Bothnian Bay Environmental Information
  Database
• 2. BAT Information Exchange System
• 3. Water Quality and Eutrophication Model
• 4. Bothnian Bay Action Plan
• Integrated management system for the Bothnian
  Bay

BAT Best Available Technology
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1. Environmental Information Database

• Collecting, processing and combining
  environmental information in national and
  regional databases by using the Internet and
  suitable geographical applications

The system allows for the integrated monitoring
and managing of the Bothnian Bay
environment Information on the state of the
Bothnian Bay will be collected with an automatic
measuring equipment during the open-water period
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• Database work group
• Juha Katajisto / Vincent Westberg
  WFREC
• Mirja Heikkinen / Jouni Näpänkangas
  NOREC
• Malin Kronholm CAN
• Sakari Murtoniemi LAPREC
• Anneli Sedin CAV
• Eeva-Kaarina Aaltonen Ostrobothnia Water
  Protection Association
• Further information juha.katajisto_at_ymparisto.fi

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2. BAT Information Exchange System
The goal is to increase co-operation between
authorities and industries and to develop the BAT
Information Exchange System (BATIES)

• The information exchange concentrates on the
  assessment and development of purification
  techniques and pollution load of metal industries
  on the Bothnian Bay coast
• The BAT subproject is aimed at meeting the
  demands on information exchange between the EU
  member countries for integrated pollution
  prevention and control (IPPC, 96/61/EC)

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• BATIES work group
• Heli Rissanen LAPREC
• Paula Ala-aho NOREC
• Cecilia Johansson CAV
• Ann-Mari Häkkinen WFREC
• Gunnar Nilsson CAN
• Hans-Erik Andtbacka OMG Kokkola
• Anders Bergman SSAB Tunnplåt Ltd
• Michael Borell Boliden Mineral Ltd
• Kai Nykänen Outokumpu Zinc Ltd
• Eila Paldanius Rautaruukki Steel
• Juha Ylimaunu Avesta Polarit Ltd
• Further information heli.rissanen_at_ymparisto.fi

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3. Water Quality and Eutrophication model
Creating a distribution model of the pollution
load from different sources in the whole of the
Bothnian Bay area

• The model will be applied in assessing,
  simulating and visualising the effects of loads
  from different sources with an emphasis on
  industrial and estuary areas
• The model will facilitate water protection and
  land use planning, setting up limit values for
  the pollution load and the generation of general
  strategies for the management of the Bothnian
  Bay

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• Model work group
• Eira Luokkanen LAPREC
• Jan Albertsson CAV
• Mirja Heikkinen NOREC
• Malin Kronholm CAN
• Vincent Westberg WFREC
• Aapo Mäenpää Keminmaa municipality
• Eeva-Kaarina Aaltonen Ostrobothnia Water
  Protection Association
• Further information
  eira.luokkanen_at_ymparisto.fi

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Bothnian Bay Action Plan
Defining the targets and priorities for the work
towards sustainable development in the Bothnian
Bay, based on the results of the three other
sub-projects

• Creating guidelines for the integrated status
  assessment, management and monitoring of the
  Bothnian Bay
• The plan contains a description of the
  characteristics of the Bothnian Bay and its
  catchment area, and an analysis of the state of
  the sea, the main environmental problems and of
  the lack in ecological knowledge

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• Action plan work group
• Malin Kronholm CAN
• Jan Albertsson CAV
• Juha Katajisto WP3 - Database
• Heli Rissanen WP4 - BATIES
• Eira Luokkanen WP5 - Model
• Anne Laine NOREC
• Eila Paldanius Rautaruukki
• Ismo Karhu Pohjois-Pohjanmaan liitto
• Ingemar Lundström Kappa Kraftliner, Piteå
• Bo-Göran Persson Skellefteå
• Further information
  malin.kronholm_at_bd.lst.se

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The end result will be an integrated
environmental information management system for
the Bothnian Bay, leading to

• improved state and management of the Bothnian
  Bay and better awareness of problems in coastal
  areas

• a more extensive, improved, cost-effective
  monitoring and environmental impact assessment
  for the coastal areas
• a more effective co-operation between
  authorities, industries, municipalities, and
  environmental experts in the two countries

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• The system will help authorities, industries, and
  municipalities to consider the environmental
  aspects in
• - decision making
• - environmental impact assessment and
• - planning and developing sustainable land
  use
• The main part of the system will be for public
  use on the Internet

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