AMIIGA (INTEGRATED APPROACH TO MANAGEMENT OF GROUNDWATER QUALITY IN FUNCTIONAL URBAN AREAS) is a project with 6 countries, 12 project partners, 8 regions, 7 pilot actions, 2.9 million euro project budget and 2.4 million euro ERDF. AMIIGA built on and capitalized the results of previous projects especially MAGIC and FOKS.

Many countries in Central Europe are dealing with the impacts of environmental damages that occurred since the late 19th century and in the 20th century as a result of improper handling of hazardous substances, especially in industrial production. With the development of urban areas in the second half of the 20th century, many industrial sites became part of residential areas. Although industrial enterprises have gradually ceased their activities and production or have been disposed of outside residential areas, in many cases the pollution of the rock environment and groundwater has remained unresolved. As a result, polluted sites are part of the cities in Central Europe.

Groundwater contamination is a problem that goes beyond sites and any administrative boundaries. Contamination sources located in “city core” affect the groundwater quality of “hinterlands” downstream and vice versa. It requires effective intervention at the medium (FUA) scale, neglected in the existing legislation.

AMIIGA focused on integrated assessment, remediation and management strategies, as well as on the development of tools for characterization/prioritization of groundwater contamination sources.

Each pilot FUA of AMIIGA represents a serious problem for local or regional authorities. They differ in the type of pollution, hydrogeological conditions and threats from pollution (e.g. risk of damage to drinking water sources, degradation of mineral springs, threat to the health of the population etc.).

12 project partners have prepared sets of pilot activities for 7 pilot FUAs and developed a management strategy and a long-term management plan to address pollution on specific FUAs. In all pilot actions, the new technical tools developed in the AMIIGA project were used, which enabled these innovative resources to be successfully verified in practice.


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