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Groundwater Modelling and Hydrological System Analysis of Wetlands in the Middle Biebrza Basin

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In the presented approach, a three dimensional finite-difference steady-state groundwater model was applied to analyze the groundwater flow system of the Middle Biebrza Basin. Study contains analysis of hydrogeological and morphological outline of the area, as well as the description of developed groundwater model including conceptual model description, model calibration and sensitivity analysis of parameters. Analysis of volumetric water budget of the model within assumed boundary conditions indicated that groundwater resources of the analyzed part of the Middle Biebrza Basin in approximately 80% come from lateral inflow from the adjacent plateaus. Analysis of spatial distribution of groundwater discharge indicated that the most intensive groundwater inflow to the top peat layer is concentrated within the “Czerwone Bagno”, where the peatlands are not degraded and wetland habitats develop naturally, not being directly impacted by drainage ditches and canals.

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    Data of groundwater heads measured in piezometers without divers come from groundwater monitoring network of the Biebrza National Park.

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Acknowledgments

Research was funded by EEA Grant (PL-0082) “Biodiversity protection of Red Bog (Czerwone Bagno)—relic of raised bogs in Central Europe”. Project was developed in Department of Hydraulic Engineering and Environmental Restoration, Warsaw University of Life Sciences. Mirosław Budziński (Biebrza National Park), Mateusz Stelmaszczyk (Warsaw University of Life Sciences), Ewelina Kosela and Anna Socha (Interfaculty Studies of Environmental Conservation, WULS) are gratefully acknowledged for an outstanding help in field research. First author was benefitted from a scholarship of the Flemish Government for Polish-Flanders bilateral exchange. Authors wish to acknowledge Dr hab. Urszula Somorowska and Prof. Waldemar Mioduszewski for their useful comments and the review, which made the paper more robust.

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  1. Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, ul. Nowoursynowska 159, 02-787, Warsaw, Poland

    Mateusz Grygoruk, Tomasz Okruszko, Dorota Mirosław-Świątek & Jarosław Chormański

  2. Department of Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

    Mateusz Grygoruk & Okke Batelaan

  3. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, K.U. Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Okke Batelaan

  4. Institute of Technology and Life Sciences, Falenty, Poland

    Marek Rycharski

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Grygoruk, M., Batelaan, O., Okruszko, T., Mirosław-Świątek, D., Chormański, J., Rycharski, M. (2011). Groundwater Modelling and Hydrological System Analysis of Wetlands in the Middle Biebrza Basin. In: Świątek, D., Okruszko, T. (eds) Modelling of Hydrological Processes in the Narew Catchment. Geoplanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19059-9_6

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