Groundwater flow model management and case studies in Emilia-Romagna (Italy)


Submitted: 5 December 2012
Accepted: 14 March 2016
Published: 30 March 2013
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The use of groundwater modeling to support the planning and management of water resources is a possible goal of a long and detailed course of study and research. The present work concerns some applications carried out within the aquifers of the Emilia-Romagna plain in northern Italy. The main features of the developed and available mathematical models are reported as well as the geological and hydrogeological description of the analyzed aquifers. The main operational choices that have characterized the implementation of all models and their continuous development and updating are discussed. Activity has been focused to maintain active the data stream between the models to improve their functionality along with time to give a basis for models management. Models have been used in different applications which indicate the potential for their use with targeted objectives of planning and management. Two examples at two different scales are given: the first shows the application to the entire aquifer of the Emilia-Romagna region, which has been able to adapt simulations to new groundwater bodies defined in accordance with 2000/60/EC directive, the current regulatory framework for the planning of water resources. This framework provides for the establishment of programs of measures whose level of effectiveness can be estimated with the support of models. The second concerns a more detailed scale model in reference to a specific evaluation of feasibility of an intervention of artificial recharge. The management approach used here is the result of over 10 years development and application and now allows to apply numerical models in a role of systematic service in support of the institutions involved in planning and management of groundwater resources.

Chahoud, A., Gelati, L., Palumbo, A., Patrizi, G., Pellegrino, I., & Zaccanti, G. (2013). Groundwater flow model management and case studies in Emilia-Romagna (Italy). Acque Sotterranee - Italian Journal of Groundwater, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.7343/as-019-13-0043

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