Information resource title:
    National Automated System for Environment Monitoring/NASEM/, Subsytem "Water", Functional subsystem "Surface water biological monitoring"

    Brief description of content:
    The database includes biotic index of rivers (biological assessment of river water quality); microbiological parameters (micro-organisms total number, Coli-forms, total colititer, E. coli-thermoresistant,pathogens)
    Measured indicators/units/techniques:

      • biotic index/grades/technique for MOEW biological monitoring
      • Total number nicro-organisms/number of cell on sm3/BSS 2823
      • Total colititer/ sm3/BSS 2824
      • Coli-forms,/ sm3/BSS 2825
      • E. coli-thermoresistant, ,/ sm3/BSS 2825
      • Pathogens/qualitu assessment/ BSS 2826
    Territorial cover of measured data:
    • For biotic index of rivers national
    • For micro-biological inicators regional (Sofia, Veliko Tarnovo, Smolyan, Burgas);
    Organization of collecting data:
    The base RIEWs (Montana, Veliko Tarnovo, Bourgas, Plovdiv, Stara Zagora, Smolyan) are sending by post standard protocols each month (part of the data are recurred also in electronic form Word, Excel)

    Available resource formats:

    • Paper carrier
    • Magnetic carrier - Word,Excel

    Data original language:Bulgarian

    Languages for information keeping:Bulgarian

    Publications:

    • Annual report for environment status, published by EEA
    • Green book for environment status, published by MOEW

    Internet publications:

    • Annual report for environment status

    Data access:
    An official request must be made to the Executive Director of the Agency, 
    specifying the required information and the need for this information. Reports can be made by base RIEWs (Montana, Veliko Tarnovo, Bourgas, Plovdiv, Stara Zagora, Smolyan) and EEA-Sofia

    Contact person: Mina Asenova

     Position  Major expert in "Monitoring-water" department,Directorate "Monitoring and sustainable development"
     Language skills  English, German, Russian
     Town/Village-mail code  Sofia - 1618
     Street  136, Tzar Boris III Blvd., PO Box 256
     Telephone  (+359 2) 940 64 83, (+359 2) 955 98 18
     Fax  (+359 2)  955 90 15
     E-mail  masenova@eea.government.bg
Delivered data are current to November 2008