“Sharing of hydrogeological studies in forestry control and protection in coastal area in Tuscany”

Abstract

Several hydrogeological studies have been made in the coastal area of Tuscany in order to monitor quality and availability of ground water in the upper unconfined aquifer. These studies are important for water supply in the local industrial and agricultural activities, because these activities could get water only from the ground. For these studies we collected a good lot of data and have given a knowledge of dynamic behaviour (in time and in space) of the aquifer by means of new technologies in environmental monitoring, computer territorial tools and hydrologic modelling. This know–how in qualitative and quantitative monitoring of aquifer should be shared to face with another great environmental problem in the area; that is control and protection of forestry coastal area. This area, famous world-wide, is located in a regional park and suffered for death of several thousand pines in the last decade.