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CONCLUSIONS
The ERBD project team is currently in the process of refining its estimates of
phosphorous loadings and water resources protection and restoration measures’
effectiveness and costs in response to face-to-face consultations with the local
authority engineers and procurement officers that manage the Athboy Catchment.
This process that will be undertaken for each of the catchments in the ERBD
throughout 2006. The project team will also continue to modify and improve the POM
selection feature of its decision support system in consultation with the ultimate
users, which are these same local authority officials. Although the cost-effectiveness
analytical inputs (and thus outputs) and user interface will undoubtedly change as
each of the catchments are analysed in further detail throughout 2006 and beyond,
the ERBD project’s basic cost-effectiveness analysis methodology will not change.
Under the ERBD project’s cost-effectiveness analysis methodology, least-cost POMs
for each catchment will be identified along with the variety of real-world constraints
that must be applied when making final selections of POMs and proceeding to
implementation. With this information, as it is to be incorporated into this highly
flexible and dynamic process, WFD objectives for the maintenance and achievement
of good or excellent status water bodies will be achieved pragmatically, transparently,
inclusively, expeditiously, and with the highest possible level of fiscal responsibility.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors wish to acknowledge the ERBD project team members who have
contributed and continue to contribute to the development of the ERBD project’s
cost-effectiveness analysis methodology:
Melanie Heather, Henning Moe, Kieran Phillips (CDM Ireland Ltd)
Matt Gamache, Larry Kelly, Jack Kiefer, Marianne MacDonald, Tom Pederson,
Michael Waddell, Kirk Westphal (CDM Inc.)
Ken Dowling, Paul Mills (Compass Informatics Ltd).
REFERENCES
European Union (2000). Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council
2000/60/EC Establishing a Framework for Community Action in the Field of Water
Policy, Luxembourg (Water Framework Directive). Published by the European
Parliament and the Council, Luxembourg.
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