Implementation of European Water Framework Directive deals with integral water management policy, including the groundwater chemical and quantitative status estimation and proposal of measures for improvement of chemical and quantitative status of water bodies, which are at risk not to achieve good chemical and quantitative status till the year 2015. In the scope of Slovenian Water Management Plan, Geological Survey of Slovenia is responsible for groundwater management issues.
F.24 Improvements to existing system-wide, normative and programme solutions, and methods
COBISS.SI-ID: 2175829Considering the tritium activity in groundwater it was estimated that, in some parts of the aquifer, water older than 100 years can be found. Chemical analysis of the Borovniški vršaj groundwater show low values of oxidation-reduction potential Eh, resulting in the lack of dissolved oxygen in water. It can be estimated that such specific hydrochemical circumstances originate form organic matter in peat, captured in water-bearing layers of the confined aquifer Borovniški vršaj. It was evaluated that ammonia in Borovniški vršaj groundwater most likely does not originate from antropogenic pollution of the aquifer, but is caused by specific hydrogeological and hydrochemical conditions in the aquifer.
F.30 Professional assessment of the situation
COBISS.SI-ID: 2248277An invited lecture was carried out within the seminar »Drinking Water Monitoring, inspection, and current water supply issues«, which took place on 31.10.2013 in Ljubljana. The purpose of the lecture was to enable water supply network operators to more effectively prevent the pollution of drinking water resources in different lithological types of aquifers used for water supply in Slovenia.
F.18 Transfer of new know-how to direct users (seminars, fora, conferences)
COBISS.SI-ID: 2126421