The Norwegian River Monitoring Programme 2024 – water quality status and trends
- Year of publication
- 2025
- External websites
- Nasjonalt vitenarkiv
- Involved from NIVA
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Odd Arne Segtnan Skogan
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James Edward Sample
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Cathrine Brecke Gundersen
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Øyvind Kaste
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Marianne Stave Sekkenes
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Kine Bæk
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Ian Allan
- Contributors
- Øyvind Kaste, Cathrine Brecke Gundersen, Marianne Stave Sekkenes, James Edward Sample, Maeve Mcgovern, Liv Bente Skancke, Ian Allan, Kine Bæk, Odd Arne Segtnan Skogan
Summary
Twenty rivers along the Norwegian coast are monitored for physical and chemical parameters as part of the Norwegian River Monitoring Programme. This report presents the current status (2024) and long-term (1990-2024) trends of data on suspended particles, organic matter, nutrients, and metals. Concentrations of EU Water Framework Directive priority substances and river basin-specific pollutants (trace metals and organic pollutants) in water and biota (fish) are compared with annual average environmental quality standards (AA-EQS). The report also presents light absorbance indices for characterisation of dissolved organic matter (DOM) quality in the rivers, and high-frequency measurements of water temperature, pH, conductivity, turbidity and fluorescent DOM (FDOM) at five river stations.