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The increase in the water supply demand, intense farming, and climate changes led to overexploitation and contaminated aquifers in some regions of Slovenia. A solution to this problem was an introduction of artificial groundwater recharge systems. Within the Project FREEWAT, we established two groundwater flow models to analyze the efficiency and optimize the working functions of the established groundwater recharge systems. One of the sites of the groundwater model is the deep aquifer of Vrbanski Plato (the main source of drinking water for the most extensive water supply system in Slovenia), where managed artificial recharged was introduced thirty years ago. Additionally, an analysis of a newly constructed MAR system with IRBF on the shallow aquifer of Apače field was carried out. Water resource management tools like FREEWAT have become a significant contributor to an establishment of an efficient MAR system and consequently a water quality healthy aquifer. Among the two studied sites, the hydrogeological tool FREEWAT was used to analyze the efficiency of the MAR system against possible contamination, the effect of the MAR system on the groundwater body and the increase of the capacity of the pumping station with additional groundwater recharge.
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The authors like to thank to be part of the EU project FREEWAT, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement n. 642224. FREEWAT/QGIS tool has the advantage of integrated solution allowing managing datasets, calibrating, treating and modelling a set of scenarios and producing outputs and visualizations for decision makers all integrated into one environment and as open source. Another thanks to the EU project SI-MUR-AT, which is receiving funding from the European Union’s Interreg V-A Slovenia-Austria programme under n. SIAT116. This project enables the use of tools FREEWAT/QGIS in the Apače field.
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Kopač, I., Vremec, M. (2020). Induced Riverbank Filtration (IRBF) for Managed Artificial Groundwater Recharge (MAR) in Slovenia. In: Negm, A., Romanescu, G., Zelenakova, M. (eds) Water Resources Management in Balkan Countries. Springer Water. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22468-4_4
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