Fundamental Regulations of the Information Exchange

5. FUNDAMENTAL REGULATIONS OF THE INFORMATION EXCHANGE

According to the project, the network will operate in the following three modes:

- Normal;

- Preventive;

- Emergency (extreme).

In addition, the network has an auxiliary training mode.

The main users of the information essential for the Dnipro Basin Management are the following:

- Competent organizations, as identified by the intergovernmental Agreements of transboundary water bodies;

- Bodies established as a part of the UNDP-GEF Programme.

At the moment, fundamental regulations are developed on the basis of the documents singed as a part of the implementation of the 1992 Ukrainian-Russian Agreement on transboundary water bodies and the regulation of information exchanges established between the Russian and Ukrainian Gydromet organizations. The interests of other potential users will be accounted for as they will develop their own requirements to the regulations of information exchange.

The amount and the intervals of the provision of information in the normal mode are prescribed by the regulations of the relevant departmental information systems.

Thus, during the normal mode of operation main information is based on the data of the State Water Cadastre (SWC) and consists of the data on the resources and quality of surface and ground waters and their use.

According to the SWC maintenance schedule, this information is updated once a year.

Database on safety of hydrotechnical facilities is dynamically updated upon the receipt of safety declarations.

There is no need to regulate mutual transmission of the above information, circulation during the normal operational mode of the network, between the network nodes. The DRIC, as the central node directly interacting with the central database on SWC water use within the framework of VODNIIINFORMPROEKT, is capable of providing information on the Dnipro Basin without the additional information exchange between the riparian oblasts of the Russian Federation.

The normal mode of network operation also includes representation of the information, received as a result of a joint analytical monitoring of hydro-chemical and radiological parameters of water bides and transboundary monitoring wells under the 1992 Ukrainian-Russian Agreement on transboundary water bodies between the counterpart basin water management organizations. In this case the data are updated four times a year (table 5.1).

The operation of the network in a preventive (when water contamination exceeds the normal level but is still below the extreme level) and emergency (when water contamination exceeds the extreme level) modes is entirely different. For these operational modes, directed channels of information transfer and its intervals (once a week for the preventive mode and once a day for the emergency mode) are established in the draft regulations according to the requirements of the above-mentioned competent organizations.

The organization of the channels is subject to the scheme of a hydrographic network of the Russian section of the Dnipro basin (fig 1.6) and the list of water bodies and monitoring wells established as a part of the Ukrainian-Russian Agreement and listed in table 5.2. Similar list under the Agreement with Belarus (December 2002) is currently under development.

Based on this, potential impact of emergency situations on the transboundary water bodies has been assessed. The impact routs of the emergency situations at water bodies within the Russian section of the Dnipro basin for the preventive and emergency modes are listed in table 5.2, in which each section is correlated with the e-mail address of a network node.

In the case of an emergency within the Russian section of the Dnipro basin, the emergency sector is being located in the table in the corresponding sub-basin (table line) and on the corresponding territory (table column). Following this, a mailing list of network nodes is generated according to the numbers of the sections located in the specified line which numbers are higher then that the emergency sector to inform about the emergency situation and to specify the operation mode of the network:

- TRN - training

- NOR – normal

- PRE – preventive

- EMG- emergency

It is mandatory that a copy of a message is submitted to the DRIC and the Desna Regional Department of Water Resources (Ukraine, Chernihiv Oblast) under all operational modes of the network.

Thus, a standard normalized message may look, for example, as follows:

“TRN / Exceeding of phenol content in a monitoring well at the Kr.Kamen residential area Q = 10 MAC. Cause: overfilling of a sedimentation tank at the Alfa production enterprise / TRN.”

Table 5.1 The monitored water bodies and wells

#	Name of the transboundary monitored water bodies at the border of Ukraine, location of the monitoring wells	Terms of joint sampling
The zone of authority of the Moscow-Oka Basin Water Department
1.	The Desna River, the border between Briansk and Chernihiv (Ukraine) Oblasts, the village of Muravyi (Ukraine), the 573th kilometer of the Desna River.	Four times a year: April-May July- August October-November January-February
2.	The monitoring well at the junction of the Desna and Sudost Rivers, Chernihiv Oblast (Ukraine), the village of Kamen, the 508th kilometer of the Desna River.
3.	The Sudost River, the border between Briansk and Chernihiv (Ukraine) Oblasts, the village of Muravyi (Ukraine), 3d km of the Sudost River.
4.	The Snov River, the border between Briansk and Chernihiv (Ukraine) Oblasts, upstream of village of Tymonovychy (Ukraine), the 156th kilometer of the river Snov
5.	The Snov River, the border between Briansk and Chernihiv (Ukraine) Oblasts, the village of Horsk (Ukraine), the 120th kilometer of the river Snov
6.	The Irpa River, the border between Briansk and Chernihiv (Ukraine) Oblasts, the village of Horsk (Ukraine), the 2nd kilometer of the river Irpa
The Zone of authority of the Don Basin Water Department
7.	The Seim River, the village of Tetkion, the border between Kursk and Sumy (Ukraine) oblasts.
8.	The Psel River, the border between Kursk and Sumy (Ukraine) oblasts.
9.	The Vorskla River, the village of Kozinka, the border between Belgorod and Sumy (Ukraine) Oblasts.
10.	The Vorsklitsa River, the village of M.Orlovka, the border between Belgorod and Sumy (Ukraine) Oblasts

Fig. 1.6.

 

Table 5.2. Impact routs of emergency situations in the Dnipro Basin

 

Territory of the Dnipro Basin
Territory of the Russian Federation							Territory of Belarus	Territory of Ukraine
Sub-basins of major transboundary rivers	Territory of the Oblasts of the Russian Federation
	Smolensk	Kaluga	Briansk	Orel	Kursk	Belgorod
1. Dnipro	1, sml	¾	¾	¾	¾	¾	2, BIC	99, UIC
2. Sozh	1, sml	¾	¾	¾	¾	¾	2, BIC	99, UIC
2.1. Iput	2, sml	¾	3, brn	¾	¾	¾	1, BIC; 4, BIC	99, UIC
3. Desna*	1, sml	2, klg	3, brn	¾	¾	¾	¾	99, UIC
	¾	¾	2, brn	1, ORL	1, KRS	¾	¾	99, UIC
3.1. Sudost	¾	¾	1, brn	¾	¾	¾	¾	99, UIC
3.2. Seim	¾	¾	¾	1, ORL	2, KRS	1, BLG	¾	99, UIC
3.3. Snov	¾	¾	1, brn	¾	¾	¾	¾	99, UIC
3.3.1. Irpa	¾	¾	1, brn	¾	¾	¾	¾	99, UIC
4. Psel*	¾	¾	¾	¾	2, KRS	1, BLG	¾	99, UIC
					1, KRS	2, BLG	¾	99, UIC
5. Vorska	¾	¾	¾	¾	¾	1, BLG	¾	99, UIC
5.1. Vorsklitsa	¾	¾	¾	¾	¾	1, BLG	¾	99, UIC

 

Signs and abbreviations

 

2, klg:

 

2 – number of the section in the basin (from the river source to its mouth;

 

99 – conditional number of a virtual section);

 

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