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1 relator: PhD Geologist Alberto Cisotto THE ISONZO SOČA RIVER BASIN Eastern Alps District (NE Italy W Slovenia) Workshop on Transboundary Water Cooperation in Central and Western Europe Budapest Hungary 8-10 February 2011

2 ISONZO BASIN Trenta Valley 955m asl ( Soča River ) W Slovenia 140 km ( ) Panzano Gulf North Adriatic Sea 34 % 66 % Idrijca river GEOMORPHOLOGY Gradient: Total area: 3430 km 2 Italia 1,15 km 2 (34%) Slovenia 2,25 km 2 (66%) Tributaries Torre River sub-basin (Natisone & Iudrio R.) Idrijca & Vipacco rivers Overview Status & Pressures Management Conclusions 2/11

3 HYDROLOGY precipitation (mm/y) Alpine Prealpine Hills Plain river discharge Pieris Gauging station Discharge characteristics Discharge Period of time or date Q av 172 m 3 /s _ Q max 4400 m 3 /s Q min 12.1 m 3 /s 3 August 1904 Overview Status & Pressures Management Conclusions 3/11

4 HYDRO-GEOLOGY: water bodies GROUNDWATER porous system aquifer: clastic alluvial (gravel and sands) of Isonzo river (Quaternary Age) karstic & fractured aquifer: Cretaceous carbonatic rock, Timavo River Overview Status & Pressures Management Conclusions 4/11

5 QUALI- & QUANTITATIVE STATUS SURFACE and GROUND WATER MONITORING NETWORK Overview Status & Pressures Management Conclusions 5/11

6 WATER and LAND USES DAMS Salcano artificial regulation of floods Sottosella, Canale, Crosis RIVER WITHDRAWLS energy and industrial use agricoltural use LAND & COVER USE Forests 49% Cropland 44% Urban 6% Waterbodies 0,7% Workshop on Transboundary Water Overview Status & Pressures Management Conclusions 6/11

7 Workshop on Transboundary Water PROBLEMS and PRESSURES TRANSBOUNDARY PROBLEMS PRESSURES: Conflicts relating to IT SLO different water resource use Quality and quantity of the water status Natural origin IDRJA Hg MINE Antropic origin ORGANIC MATTER from Nova Gorica wastewater discharge SALCANO DAM NORTH ADRIATIC Overview Status & Pressures Management Conclusions 7/11

8 Salcan Dam In Slovenian territory Overview Status & Pressures Management Conclusions 8/11

9 INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK Permanent Italian Slovenian Commision for Hydro-economy MANAGEMENT PLAN - TRANSBOUNDARY PROJECTS - COOPERATION The Isonzo Basin: which authorities are interested in? Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Environment and Protection of Land and Sea Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region Isonzo Plan Bonifica Consortium ITALY Alto adriatico River Basin Authority ISPRA - Institute Environmental Protection and Research Gorizia Prefecture and local Municipalities Focal Points 2000/60 ARPA - Regional Agency for the Environment Protection Regional Civil Défense Provincia of Gorizia Ministry for Environment SLOVENY National Civil Défense Prefecture and local Municipalities ARSO Environment Agency Overview Status & Pressures Management Conclusions 9/11

10 FINAL CONSIDERATION Eastern Alps Hydrographic District Management Plan has individuated IT-SLO Permanent Commission for Hydro-Economy like - official public organism to discuss transboundary water problems (art. 3 of WFD 2000/60) The first step of the commission (april 2010) was to define a expert group with the consign of: PLAN - set out a road map for implementation of 1ST ITALIAN-SLOVENIAN ISONZO COMMON MANAGEMENT Overview Status & Pressures Management Conclusions 10/11

11 In the future.. IT-SLO Permanent Commis. for Hydro-economy has established a technical committee to plan a cross-border monitoring network will be operational in 2015 (data of the first review of the management plan) Overview Status & Pressures Management Conclusions 11/11

12 relator: PhD Geologist Alberto Cisotto Thank you for your attention relator: address: PhD Geologist Alberto Cisotto Workshop on Transboundary Water Cooperation in Central and Western Europe Budapest Hungary 8-10 February 2011

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