Department of Quantity of Surface Water Banská Bystrica

 

The main activities of the department:

  • performance of activities of Partial Monitoring System "Water" - subsystem Quantitative indicators of surface water in the river basins Hron, Ipeľ and Slaná,
  • establishment and operation of automatic monitoring stations conducted by the project POVAPSYS:
  • management of operation and measurement process in the surface waters monitoring network,
  • providing maintenance, construction and modernization of objects of observation and measurement devices
  • searching for sites and volunteer observers, including their training, methodological management and controlling of their activities,
  • metrological documentation and creating of a database of objects and measuring devices,
  • collection, validation, processing and evaluation of observed quantitative features of surface water and preparing of data for archiving in the archive and the electronical database,
  • cooperation in monitoring, discharge measurements and assessment of quantitative features of surface water on border rivers with professional institutions of neighboring countries,
  • providing of monitored data and information about surface water, expertise, expert opinions and studies
  • updating and verification of hydrological characteristics, design parameters for water planning, decision-making activities, protection and rational use of water as well as for other activities relating to the surface water resources;
  • solving of research and development tasks in the hydrology of surface waters in the frame of the constitutional, national and international projects.

Mgr. Robert Chriašteľ

Head of Department

 

Contact:

Department of Quantity of surface waters Banská Bystrica
Regional branch SHMÚ
Zelená 5, P.O. Box 1,
974 04 Banská Bystrica
Slovak Republic
Tel: + 421 48 472 96 54
Fax: + 421 48 413 8545
E-mail: robert.chriastel@shmu.sk