The type of data being monitored
can be
- social; e.g., birth rate, health, quality of life;
- economical; e.g., income, number of industrial
companies, transport volume between two regions;
- ecological; e.g., number of a single plant, "health"
of a population, number of offspring;
- physical: e.g., position of coastline, depth of
a channel, size of the dunes.
The data may already being filed at several separate institutes.
In that case, the priority is to gather this data at a
central point where it can be used for evaluation. Or,
the data is not recorded yet and monitoring programs have
to be designed and implemented. The latter need to be
facilitated by scientific researchers and their institutes.
These professionals might have to be trained in the appropriate
skills. In this stage, remote sensing and GIS techniques
often play an important role because these techniques
have the ability to provide and process high quality data
relatively cheap. |
This kind
of registers of polluters provided the basis for the organisation
of the monitoring activities. In order to elaborate appropriate
monitoring programme, a detailed study of the natural
characteristics of the sea and coastal area was elaborated.
The result of this sectoral studies was a programme of
targeted monitoring of the Bay, directed to the monitoring
of air, surface water for 3 rivers, soil, sea water quality,
urban and industrial waste waters and solid industrial
wastes monitoring.
What regards the Integrated Ecological Project, monitoring
of the activities is done by the responsible ECO-Kastela
Bay agency. The only problem encountered so far in the
implementation of the Kastela/Trogir sewerage system
regards a delay in the preparation of the project documentation
due to local problems relative to the location of the
treatment plant. At present, alternative solutions of
this sewerage system are being studied. The other projects
are being implemented according the plan.
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