Reporting according to obligations under the DWD (methodology, experience of other EU countries) focusing on Ireland

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1 Reporting according to obligations under the DWD (methodology, experience of other EU countries) focusing on Ireland Darragh Page Drinking Water Team Leader Enforcement Environmental Protection Agency IRELAND

2 Introduction Water supply in Ireland Reporting requirements National and EU Data Collection and Assessment Overview of Information Reported Issues

3 The Supply of Water in Ireland 9% 6% Public Water Supplies Private Regulated Supplies Exempted Supplies 85% Size of Supply No. of Water Supply Zones Population Served Public Water Supplies Large (> 1,000 m 3 /day) % Small (< 1,000 m 3 /day) % Private Water Supplies Large (> 1,000 m 3 /day) 7 0.4% Small (< 1,000 m 3 /day) 2, %

4 The Supply of Drinking Water in Ireland Public water supplies provided by 34 City and County Councils (Water Services Authorities WSA) Private water supplies provided by local community groups and by commercial activities. Environmental Protection Agency is the supervisory authority WSAs must annually report all monitoring to the EPA WSAs must report failures to the EPA within 1 working day EPA ensures that all failures are investigated and corrective action taken EPA can issue legally binding Directions to WSA to prepare action programmes or to carry out specific actions

5 Reporting Requirements - National EPA must produce annual report for the public covering all supplies (large/small and public/private) WSAs must provide timely access to up to date monitoring results on their websites WSAs must publish results of EPA audits of WTP WSAs must publish corrective actions being undertaken in quality deficient supplies Approx 50 laboratories in Ireland analysing samples for compliance monitoring under the DWD

6 Reporting Requirements - EU Each MS must report every three years within one calendar year of the end of the reporting period e.g. report for 2008, 2009 and 2010 had to be published in Report covers all supplies serving over 5,000 persons or 1,000 m3/d Must be submitted to COM within 2 months of publication Reporting format must follow that approved by the Article 12 Committee (revision approved in Oct 2011)

7 Reporting Requirements - EU Information to be reported to COM Table 1 - List of all supplies covered by reporting requirements Table 2 Info on Exemptions Table 3 Sampling and analysis methods used for microbiological and metals analysis Table 4 Monitoring shortfalls Table 5 National summary of compliance with all parametric values Table 6 Information on non-compliances Table 7 Format of DW data available Table 8 Types of info available to the public

8 Reporting on Drinking Water Quality WSAs report previous years data by February using an EPA data portal (EDEN) EPA verifies and checks data, generates statistics and information on quality and enforcement EPA publishes an annual report on the quality of all water supplies (public and private) and the enforcement of public supplies EU report is a subset of the national report

9 Local Authorities European Bodies LA Admin Data LA LIMS Data EC EEA EuroStat RBDs SEIS WISE EDEN AQUARIUS Data Core Intranet Internet Marine Institute DECLG Fisheries EPA LIMS GeoWater Hydrometric Data Biol Q Other EPA apps Public Authorities EPA

10 EDEN Objectives Provide for the sharing of environmental data Act as a single integrated system for water data in Ireland Be a data provider to environmental decision making tools Help meet Irelands international reporting requirements

11 EDEN Dataflow Local Authority (LA) Lab LA LIMS EPA Reports Public Analyst/Public Health Labs EDEN EPA Aquarius Database EU Reports EPA Labs Contract Lab LA Approval Other EPA systems

12 EDEN System Features Restricted Access (Local Authorities, Public Authorities etc) Sharing privileges defined by data owner. Returns for EPA reporting purposes are specifically marked. Data is exchanged by means of an.xml file in accordance with a DET (Data Exchange Template) Data can be uploaded and downloaded from EDEN (manually or using API)

13 EDEN System Features Data format is validated on upload and system will notify of any errors detected. Allows for translations between local and EDEN parameter names and sample purposes. Samples can be approved, rejected or deleted. Change who can see the samples. Easy to download data (XML to own local system and PDF) Users are notified if anything happens to their samples

14 Environmental Data Exchange Network (EDEN)

15 Environmental Data Exchange Network (EDEN) A local authority or private lab extract drinking water samples and results in XML format before uploading the file to EDEN via the Upload Menu Option.

16 Environmental Data Exchange Network (EDEN) Checks are performed on the file to make sure it has the correct XML structure and data validation checks also carried out Once Data has been uploaded, local authority personnel approve the results as EPA Return

17 Environmental Data Exchange Network (EDEN) and Aquarius Data is periodically extracted by the EPA from EDEN to Aquarius to enable analysis of statistics

18 Aquarius EU reporting tool

19 Environmental Data Exchange Network (EDEN)

20 Issues Large no. of labs many with different LIMS Units e.g. some labs report results in mg/l others in ug/l Unique identification system for water supply zones essential Identification of monitoring deficiencies at an early stage Data sharing and access privileges