project proposal
Project number
MAT/02/TR/
Project title
Strengthening the capacity for sustainable groundwater management
Project beneficiary
Geotechnical Services and Groundwater Department-General
Directorate of State Hydraulic Works / Ministry of Energy and
Natural Resources
Contact details:
Name of Responsible Person: Ümit ERDEM
Position: Deputy Head of Geotechnical Services and Groundwater
Department
Address: DSI Genel Müdürlüğü, Jeoteknik Hizmetler ve Yeraltısuları
Dairesi Başkanlığı, 06100 Yücetepe/ANKARA-TURKEY
Telephone: +90-312-4178300/2822
Fax: +90-312-4250328
Email:umite@dsi.gov.tr
Water and Soil Department –General Directorate of Environment
Management – Minister of Environment and Forestry
Contact details:
Name of Responsible Person: Recep ŞAHİN
Position: Department Head
Address: Çevre ve Orman Bakanlığı,
Çevre Yönetimi Genel
Müdürlüğü, Su ve Toprak Yönetimi Dairesi Başkanlığı Eskişehir
Yolu 8.km A Blok Lodumlu/ANKARA-TURKEY
Telephone: +90-312-285 25 43
Fax: +90-312-285 58 75
Email:rsahin@cevreorman.gov.tr
Project counterpart: General directorate of State Hydraulic Works / Ministry of Energy
and Natural Resources
Contact details:
Name of Responsible Person: Mehmet Güllü
Position: Deputy of General Director of State Hydraulic Works
Address: DSI Genel Müdürlüğü, 06100 Yücetepe/ANKARATURKEY
Telephone: +90-312-418 34 14
Fax: +90-312-425 03 28
Email:mehmetg@dsi.gov.tr
General Directorate of Environmental Management–Ministry of
Environment and Forestry
Contact details:
Name of Responsible Person: Musa DEMİRBAŞ
Position: General Director
Address: Çevre ve Orman Bakanlığı,Çevre Yönetimi Genel
Müdürlüğü, Eskişehir Yolu 8.km A Blok Lodumlu/ANKARATURKEY
Telephone: +90-312-285 10 40
Fax: +90-312-285 58 75
Email:musademirbas@yahoo.com
Regional Union of Cooperatives
Contact details:
Name of responsible person: Semai KAYA
Position: The President of Regional Irrigation Cooperatives
Address:Sulama Birliği Başkanlığı Afyon/Türkiye
Telephone:0 272 21531 91
Fax:0 272 213 92 66
Email:semaikaya@hotmail.com
Project purpose:
Strengthening of capacity for Sustainable Groundwater Management.
To protect the Groundwater from over exploitation.
To protect the Groundwater from pollution.
To strengthen the legal and institutional infrastructure of DSİ and
MoEF for the proper implementation of Council Directive 80/68/EEC
of 17 December 1979 in the context of 2000/60/EC Water
Framework Directive
Relevance for
Accession
Accession Partnership Turkey, dated on 14 April 2003, page 14,
”Short Term” part, under the “Environment” subtitle.
Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council
23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in
the field of water policy and given the numerous and increasing
pressures on our groundwater resources, it is vital that effective
legislative instruments address the problems effectively and help
secure these resources for future generations.
The WFD expands the scope of water protection to all waters and sets
2 clear objectives that “good status” must be achieved for all
European waters by 2015 and that sustainable water use is ensured
through out Europe.
This project on relevance
 Ensures active participation of all stake holders including
NGO and Local communities, in groundwater management
activities.
 Ensures reduction and control of pollution from agriculture,
industrial activity etc.
Balances the interests of the environment with those who depend on
it.
Improvement of water quality has been assigned as a priority, since
starting transposition and implementation of the acquis related to
water quality is a short-term priority, and completing the
transposition of the acquis and strengthening the institutional,
administrative and monitoring capacity, including data collection, to
ensure environmental protection is a medium term priority of the
Accession Partnership 2003.
Council Directive 80/68/EEC of 17 December 1979 on the protection
of groundwater against pollution caused by certain dangerous
substances which is declared under Article 22.3 “Water Quality” in
National Program 2003.
Progress Report, dated on 6 October 2004, page 115, 22. part, under
the “Environment” title
Description of the
problem and
desirable situation
Planning of water management, realising the use of groundwater in
an effective and productive way will also provide the protection of
natural resources.
We don’t have any legislation about Groundwater Pollution Control
Directive yet.
The Selected Pilot Region “Afyon Çöl Plain” is approximately
100km2. In that region there are 1 town and 56 villages. The total
population is 93.000. Catchment Area is 512 km2. The Plain is a
closed basin, which was formed by tectonic depletion. There is no big
stream in the plain. The biggest river named as Haydarlı Creek and it
is dried in summer time. Surface water infiltrates to ground and forms
groundwater. Alparslan Lake, located at south part of the area is fed
by groundwater. In previous studies approximate groundwater reserve
is 15x106 m3/year. There exist some active faults and earthquake risk
is very high and static levels are affected by these active faults. In
terms of meteorological conditions and groundwater extraction
decrease in static levels has been observed for 10 years. 3505 ha area
is irrigated with 98 operation wells, which belong to 14 Groundwater
Irrigation Cooperatives.
Because of the fact that there is no regular stream in the area drinking
and irrigation water requirements are met by groundwater. In terms of
meteorological conditions and groundwater extraction decrease in
static levels has been recently observed. This condition has caused
that groundwater quality changes and domestic water requirement can
be met. People in the area make their living mainly from agriculture.
The reason in decrease of groundwater level might be extractions of
agricultural purposes.
In order to evaluate groundwater reserve a detailed hydrogeology
survey must be done. In addition, by the means of quality observation
points the prevailing groundwater quality should be brought into light
and by this evaluation, planning of groundwater management is
aimed.
Brief summary of
institutional setting
1-Ministry of Environment and Forestry-General Directorate of
Environmental Management- Department of Water and Soil
Management
General Directorate of Environmental Management is responsible for
all kinds of measurement, monitoring, analysis, inspections and
control regarding environmental pollutions, and inspection of
activities which cause environmental pollution by domestic and
industrial pollutants.
Department of Water and Soil Management is responsible;
-to ensure the coordination of compliance with water quality
standards under the EU Water Directives with related institutions,
-to determine the aims and scope for the protection of fresh water,
groundwater and soil and to route disposal for preventing pollution,
-to determine the classification of quality of water resources and to
identify appropriate and rational usage of the resources
-to determine the criteria relating with soil quality and water
resources and to implement and monitor for gathering and evaluation
of data
-to give water discharge permit for installations, monitoring
discharges and wastewater treatment plants, approving projects
concerning wastewater treatment plants for industrial installations,
-to prepare contingency plans for protection of water resources and to
provide integrated management of water and soil resources at water
basins ,
2.Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources-General Directorate
of State Hydraulic Works-Geotechnical Services and
Groundwater Department
The investigation, usage, protection and registration of the
groundwaters are subject to the provisions of this Law.
According to the numbered of 167 Groundwater Law which was
brought into the force in 1960, is intended law to protect
groundwater recources and to encourage the public to use
groundwater with maximum benefit in the country economy.
In Article 1 of law defines that - The groundwaters are the general
territorial waters of the country and they are under the control and
ownership of state. According to this law groundwater becames under
the decree and possesion of the State .
State Hydraulic Works have 25 Regional Directorates in 25 cities and
City Head Quarters in 81 City . In addition 18 of Regional
Directorates have Drilling Head Quarters.
Procedures and control of any nature (required to be performed) are
done by DSI on behalf of the State
-Applying grounwater investigation by running hydrogeological and
geophisical surveys and drilling the required exploratory wells in all
plains and basins within the country,
-Declare the areas where groundwater investigations have been
completed and proven satisfactory for groundwater exploitations as
groundwater exploatations areas and offer the results of investigations
for public use,
-To take all necessary protective measures to protect groundwater
reservoir in the areas where groundwater explotations have been
started,
-Training of personel who are to engage in drilling and granting them
licence,
-All investigations, design, planning general supervision,with
groundwater ,
-Investigation of specific hydrogeological problems and development
of karst springs and karst investigations are realized,
-Environmental isotopes and artificial isotopes, dyes and other tracers
are used in these experiments,
-Evaluation of water chemistry data in hydrogeological
investigations, investigations of water chemistry problems and
protection of wells from coorosion etc. realized,
3.Regional Union of Irrigation Cooperatives.
-The cooperatives supply water for effective irrigations in plains.
-The organization ensure distribution of irrigation water, defines the
cost of irrigation water, collects and pays the payment of irrigation
water
-Every cooperative has to hire at least an irrigation technician.
1. General Directorate of State Hydraulic Works-Ministry of
Environment and Forestry
2. Regional Irrigation Union of Cooperatives
3. Local Governments and villages
Desirable project results (maximum of 5
results)
1.Having a proper Groundwater Management
and Groundwater Monitoring.
Activities enabling to achieve the desirable
project results
1.1 Transposition of legistation to Council
Directive 80/68/EEC on the protection of
groundwater against pollution caused by
certain dangerous substances which is
declared in National Program.
1.2 Realization of Groundwater Management
Plan under the scope of 2000/60/EC “Water
Framework Directive” and providing the
sustainability of groundwater.
1.3 Sharing the groundwater together with
NGO, Cooperatives and governmental
organizations. In management plans to give
rights on making decisions about usage of
groundwater by stakeholders is planning.
2. Co-operation between Geotechnical
Services and Groundwater Department of
State Hydraulic Works Under the Ministry of
Energy and Natural Resources and Water and
Soil Department of General Directorate of
Environment Management under the Ministry
of Environment and Forestry.
DSI will study the project central and
Regional in both, but MoEF is in central.
2.1Depending on economically water use the
protection of quality and quantity of water
and earth sources, and providing the
agricultural sustainability.
2.2 Depending on economically water use,
minimizing the agricultural inputs.
2.3 Educational works about protection of
water quality, economically water use
Risks
Seismicity and tectonic structure of area.
Estimated total
budget:
400.000EUR (2 years)
Related ongoing and/ Implementation of the Water Framework Directive in Turkey
or expected projects (MATO1/TR/9/3):
The aim of the Project was to support Turkey with the
implementation of the WFD. In this project legal and administrative
analysis was performed. However, the final report of the project still
needs major revisions.
The implementation of the Nitrate Directive (91/676/EC) in Turkey
with a view to reducing the water and soil nitrate pollution coming
from agricultural sources(PPA04/TR)
The main purpose of the project is to set the right institutional and
organizational conditions for implementation of the Nitrate Directive.
Transform projects related to irrigation methods which can be carried
out in the next stages can be developed by considering the data
obtained after completion of this project. Then sustainability of
groundwater quality and quantity management will be ensured.
Miscellaneous:
Name of responsible person: Birol ÖZER
Position: Section Head
Address: DSI Genel Müdürlüğü, Jeoteknik Hizmetler ve Yeraltısuları
Dairesi Başkanlığı, 06100 Yücetepe/ANKARA-TURKEY
Telephone: +90-312-4178300/2332
Fax: +90-312-4250328
Email:birolo@dsi.gov.tr
Name of responsible person: Özgür ÇAKMAK
Position: Environmental Engineer
Address: Çevre ve Orman Bakanlığı,Çevre Yönetimi Genel
Müdürlüğü, Su ve Toprak Yönetimi Dairesi Başkanlığı Eskişehir
Yolu 8.km A Blok Lodumlu/ANKARA-TURKEY
Telephone: +90-312-287 99 63/2405
Fax: +90-312-285 58 75
Email:ocakmak@cevreorman.gov.tr
Regional Union of Irrigation Cooperatives
Contact details:
Name of responsible person: Semai KAYA
Position:The head of Regional Union of Groundwater Irrigation
Cooperatives.
Address: Sulama Kooperatifleri Bölge Birliği Başkanı Afyon/Türkiye
Telephone:0 272 21531 91
Fax:0 272 213 92 66
e-mail:semaikaya@hotmail.com