Abstract

Within recent WFD and the modification introduced into national water related legislation, monitoring assumes great importance in the frame of territorial managerial activities. Recently, a number of public environmental agencies invested resources in planning improvements on existing monitoring networks. A lot of reasons justify the optimal redesign of a monitoring network. In fact, a modest or sparse coverage of the monitored area or redundancies and clustering of monitoring locations often make impossible to provide the manager with a sufficient knowledge for decision-making processes. These are typical cases requiring an optimal redesign of the whole network; particular emphasis shall be devoted to quality groundwater monitoring network. Using reliable stochastic or deterministic methods, it is possible to rearrange the existing network by eliminating, adding or moving monitoring locations producing the most uniform arrangement among any possible. In this paper, some spatial optimization methods have been selected as more effective among those reported in literature and implemented in a software able to carry out a complete redesign of an existing monitoring network. Both stochastic and deterministic methods have been embedded in the software with the option of choosing, case by case, the most suitable with regard to the available information. Finally, an application to the existing regional groundwater level monitoring network of the aquifer of Tavoliere located in Apulia (South Italy) is presented.

Autore Pugliese

• Barca Emanuele , Passarella Giuseppe , Vurro Michele

Tutti gli autori

• E. BARCA; G. PASSARELLA; M. VURRO; A. MOREA

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2013

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978-989-95557-8-5

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