Decision Aid for marine munitions – towards knowledge based management Jacek Bełdowski
Situation of Baltic Sea dumped munitions
Chemical munitions sunk at sea • 40 000 tonnes sunk in Baltic proper, 150 000 tonnes in Skagerrak • Natural processes plus enhancing human pressure put environment at risk
Legend: CWA Dumps Dredge sites Offshore wind farms (planned) Bottom Trawling intensity Pipelines and Cables
Decision Aid for Marine Munitions
Survey • Side Scan Sonar • Magnetometr • Sub-bottom profiler
Detection Skagerrak Kiel Bay
Munition Identification
Munition Catalogue
Pollution of sediments and water Metals Chemical Warfare Agents Explosives S Cl Cl As S S S HO OH o As
3.1 History and Current Status Degradation Products
Detection 120 Positive Negative Number of samples 100 80 60 40 20 0 Bornholm Gotland Gdańsk Deep Gulf of Gdańsk Słupsk Furrow Sampling area
Modelling of contamination
Corrosion
Modelling release Corrosion: X-ray Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy Release: High Resolution Model, NEMO
3.1 History and Current Status Bottom Currents
Impact on biota • Mussel • Fish • Infauna Types of habitats A5.2 - Sublitoral Sands A5.4 - Sublittoral Mixed Sediments A5.5 - Sublittoral Macrophyte-Dominated Sediment
3.1 History and Current Status Bornholm
Diseases/Parasites Conclusions • Significant differences in diseases
Toxicity
Biota Impact
Fish results
Biomarkers
Food web impact
DAIMON Outline Risk Assessment Methods Decision support Tool Munition Status Examination Modelling of possible release Pollution of sediments and water Monitor Manage Remediate Impact on biota assessment Risk categorization procedure
DSS – Decision Support Sysytem Impact Biota Chemistry Objects Location Habitat Type CWA Toxicity Risk algorithm hydrography number Explosives Accumulation Weighing oxygen density Release Biomarkers Cummulative impact bottom corrosion Spreading Bioindicators Weight of Evidence model Confidence level
DSS
DAIMON Enter data about a new detection of warfareagents Chem. WF Munition Munition Chem. WF New Source … 16 / 11 / 2018 Date of detection: GPS Coordinates Place of detection: Sea mine fired What munition was detected: Land mine lost dumped unkown Enter new munitiontype How was the munition detected: On sea ground adrift fishernet Washed up at the coast other State of corrosion: 4 Leaks: 0 Calculated ecological hazardousness: (heigh) (low) Level of confidence: (heigh) (low) Cancel Save data set and classify munition + - Privatemap
Thank You for attention 1) 'The research work was fund by the European Union (European Regional Development Fund) under the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme 2014-2020, project #R013 DAIMON' 2) 'The research work was financed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education from the 216- 2019 science funding allocated for the implementation of international co-financed project'
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