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8. Sampling and National System for Regional Groundwater Monitoring

8. Sampling and National System for Regional Groundwater Monitoring. Jiri Sima. Hydrogeological system. Groundwater = important component of the environment and groundwater resources represent a stabilizing part of the total runoff from an area.

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8. Sampling and National System for Regional Groundwater Monitoring

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  1. 8. Sampling and National System for Regional Groundwater Monitoring Jiri Sima

  2. Hydrogeological system • Groundwater = important component of the environment and groundwater resources represent a stabilizing part of the total runoff from an area. • Data about groundwater fluctuation, spring discharge and river flow (surface – baseflow) are important for understanding the groundwater regime as well as for planning of groundwater resources exploitation. These data and information are also important for protection of groundwater resources and protection of water related eco-systems.

  3. National Monitoring System History • The first systematic monitoring of groundwater started in the 1930s and 40s in connection with the construction of a canal connecting two rivers in the Morava region. • The groundwater monitoring network was established in the period 1961- 1975 and was completed in the period 1986 – 1990.

  4. Czech Hydrometeorogical Institute Established in 1953 by law • Climatic monitoring • Weather forcasting • Surface water monitoring • Groundwater monitoring (Groundwater Department)

  5. Groundwater Department • standardization of measurement methods • primary data processing • evaluation of groundwater regime • groundwater balance assessment • administration of groundwater monitoring network

  6. Groundwater monitoring network - history • Discharge of 499 springs and the groundwater level of 1926 wells were carried out in 1997 (320 wells measured by automatic recorders) • Technical conditions of the monitoring network were revised (by well logging and TV) in the late 1990s and 2003-2004 and the condition of a large number of monitoring points was found to be poor

  7. Monitoring network in 1997

  8. Technical problems • The casing of old wells is by steel and stoneware and the filter is often blocked by sediment (sand) and incrustations • Technical control of these wells revealed that 20% of the wells are only partly working and 30% wells are in bad technical condition

  9. Well logging vehicle at old monitoring well

  10. New goal of network • Assessment of long-term trends including monitoring climatic changes • Incorporation of baseflow into the hydrological balance of the Czech Republic • Evaluation of the impact of human activities (qualitative and quantitative) • Data for national hydrological balance • Assessment of impact of groundwater regime upon environment and vice versa

  11. Proposal for new monitoring

  12. European standards • Average density = 1 monitoring point in each 50 km2. • minimum density = 1 monitoring point to each 70 km2. • minimum density in the most important hydrogeological structures = 1 monitoring point to each 30 km2.

  13. Reconstruction of monitoring network The project 2002 – 2008, proposal for 500 new monitoring points as follows: • Groundwater monitoring (wells and springs) points • Surface water monitoring points • Data acquisition and transfer systems • 16 856 600 EUR of which 75% was covered by the EU

  14. Project definition

  15. New point distribution

  16. 403 new wells

  17. Drilling in winter

  18. Monitoring well casing

  19. Drilling and casing

  20. Well logging

  21. Pumping test

  22. Well head protection

  23. 16 new springs

  24. 9 new river gauges

  25. 13 old river gauging stations reconstr.

  26. New era in monitoring • Fully automatic system • Obseravtion of groundwater fluctuation • Monitoring of quality changes

  27. Groundwater monitoring equipment Equipment for groundwater level and other parameters monitoring is under dynamic technological development From simple manually operated to full automatic equipment with data transfer using mobile networks

  28. Groundwater level The most simplemeasurementdeviceismanual portable deeper and analog paperbasedsystems

  29. Surface water level monitoring • Modernsystems - data logger + • Hydrostatic pressure • Hydrostatic resistivity • Ultrasonic detection • Radar

  30. Data logger +

  31. Data loggers

  32. Ultrasonic sensor and satellite transmitter

  33. Vertical monitoring of quality changes

  34. Auto sampler

  35. Deep sampling

  36. Thank you for your attention

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