Task Force Water Governance
Project fiche for project ideas and proposals
Date: 20-02-2013
Applying agency (authority, organization, company, River basin Commission, etc.)
Institute: Kastoro Consulting
Contact person: ir. Gijsbert P.J. Tweehuysen
Postal address: Luiperbeekstraat 23 Klimmen
Visiting address: Luiperbeekstraat 23
Postal code: 6343 PT
City: Klimmen
Country: the Netherlands
Telephone: +31 (0) 653693382
E-mail: g.tweehuysen@hotmail.com
Project proposal
Category/Sector (technical, institutional, legal, policy, financial, communication, others (please specify):
technical
Brief description of the project:
River Litter sampling: a new method to assess the amount of litter in a river (this project is an
integrated part of the Mosa Pura project)
Objective
Please formulate the project’s goals in a few sentences:
Plastic litter pollutes the oceans. Most of this litter originates from land, transported by rivers to the
sea. There is no method to date that can quantify this contribution. Last year a sampling method
has been developed, but further development and testing is needed to be able to assess the
contribution of European rivers to the amount of marine debris in the European seas. This project
can support European authorities with a measuring tool to set standards, develop legislation and
define mitigating measures aimed at reduction at source. It will also support industries to develop
products and services to recover or prevent river litter.
Key question your project aims to answer:
How can the developed sampling method be further optimized to quantify the presence of river
litter as an indicator for the land-based contribution to marine debris and as a tool for assessment
the potential of solution-oriented products and services?
Beneficiaries
Who will benefit from the project’s results:
River authorities, industries, water users and the general public, municipal, regional, national and
supra national authorities.
Location
Where is the project located:
In 4 European rivers (apart from the Meuse, no other rivers are selected yet)
Actors
Lead partner:
?
Partners requested:
Local and national authorities, Water boards, RBC’s (IMC), Universities, companies (recovery and
recycling companies)
Project duration
What will be the duration of the project:
4 years
Budget estimation
What is the estimated budget needed:
Budget based on the costs for (additional) equipment development, sampling, analyzing and
(scientific) reporting for 1 year in 1 river: € 75.000. Total budget for 4 rivers, for 4 years: €
1.200.000.
Type of program for funding (INTERREG V, FP7, LIFE +, etc.)
Indicate which type of funding you have in mind: ? ?
Do you need help with finding the right funding? Yes
Task Force Water Governance (TFWG),
with special focus on border regions
Task Force Water Governance
Project Development Team
Phone: +31 (0)43 3897487;
Postal address: P.O. Box 5700 | 6202 MA Maastricht | The Netherlands
General email: taskforcewg@prvlimburg.nl
Contacts:
Alfred Evers: ajgm.evers@prvlimburg.nlm. +31 6 5495 6148
Harry Tolkamp: hh.tolkamp@prvlimburg.nlm. +31 6 5237 5690
Fred van den Brink: fwb.van.den.brink@prvlimburg.nl t: +31 43 3897499