European Union Water Initiative Plus for Eastern Partnership Countries (EUWI+): Results 2 and 3 ENI/2016/372-403 UPDATE OF THE DELINEATION OF GROUNDWATER BODIES AND THE DESIGN OF A GROUNDWATER MONITORING NETWORK IN THE PRIPYAT RIVER BASIN DISTRICT IN BELARUS Final Report Minsk, December 2018 Responsible EU member state consortium project leader Michael Sutter, Umweltbundesamt GmbH (AT) EUWI+ country representative in Belarus Alexandr Stankevich Responsible international thematic lead expert Andreas Scheidleder, Umweltbundesamt GmbH (AT) Authors Olga Biarozka Olga Vasniova Ihar Vitsen Disclaimer: The EU-funded program European Union Water Initiative Plus for Eastern Partnership Countries (EUWI+ 4 EaP) is implemented by the UNECE, OECD, responsible for the implementation of Result 1 and an EU member state consortium of Austria, managed by the lead coordinator Umweltbundesamt, and of France, managed by the International Office for Water, responsible for the implementation of Result 2 and 3. This document, the technical report on “UPDATE OF THE DELINEATION OF GROUNDWATER BODIES AND THE DESIGN OF A GROUNDWATER MONITORING NETWORK IN THE PRIPYAT RIVER BASIN DISTRICT IN BELARUS”, was produced by the EU member state consortium with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union or the Governments of the Eastern Partnership Countries. This document and any map included herein are without prejudice to the status of, or sovereignty over, any territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and boundaries, and to the name of any territory, city or area. Imprint Owner and Editor: EU Member State Consortium Office International de’l Eau (IOW) 21/23 rue de Madrid 75008 Paris, FRANC Responsible IOW Communication officer: Yunona Videnina [email protected] December 2018 Groundwater body delineation and monitoring in Pripyat river basin - Belarus Final Report CONTENTS 1 Executive summary ............................................................................................................................ 9 2 Introduction and scope ..................................................................................................................... 10 3 Description of the river Pripyat ......................................................................................................... 11 3.1 Brief physical and geographical information ............................................................................. 11 3.2 Geological and hydrogeological conditions .............................................................................. 12 3.3 Importance of groundwater for use (resources, reserves) ....................................................... 13 3.4 The most significant ecosystems and Nature-protected areas ................................................ 13 3.4.1 The most significant ecosystems ................................................................................... 13 3.4.2 Nature-protected areas .................................................................................................. 14 3.4.3 Sources of influence (anthropogenic and technogenic) ................................................. 15 4 Groundwater bodies in the basin of the river Pripyat ....................................................................... 17 4.1 Brief description of ground water bodies in the Pripyat river basin to be included in the river basin management plan ................................................................................................... 19 4.1.1 Ground water bodies of Quaternary age(Shallow ground water bodies) ....................... 19 4.1.2 Ground water bodies of pre-Quaternary age(deep tiers of groundwater) ...................... 21 4.1.3 Local ground water body (economically particularly important water body) .................. 22 4.2 Characteristics of ground water bodies .................................................................................... 23 4.2.1 Groundwater body BYPRGW0OO1- aquifer Holocene swamp horizon (bIV). .............. 23 4.2.2 2 Groundwater body BYPRGW02 - bearing Holocene alluvial, alluvial lace-land, lace-land lake-alluvial horizon(s) (aIV,aIIIpz,laIIIpz)....................................................... 23 4.2.3 Groundwater body BYPRGW0003 – aquifer sozhsci namereny fluvioglacial horizon (fIIszs). ............................................................................................................... 24 4.2.4 Ground water body BYPRGW0004-water-bearing Dnieper-Sozhsky water-glacial complex(f,lgIId-sz). ......................................................................................................... 25 4.2.5 Groundwater body BYPRGW0005 – Dnieper water-bearing namereny fluvioglacial horizon (fIIds). ............................................................................................. 26 4.2.6 Groundwater body BYPRGW0006 –aquifer Berezina-Dnieper water-ice and Paleogene and Neogene complex (f,lgIbr-IId + (P+N). .................................................. 27 4.2.7 Groundwater body BYPRGW0007 -water-bearing Cretaceous carbonate- terrigenous horizon ......................................................................................................... 28 4.2.8 Groundwater body BYPRGW0008 -aquiferous Upper Devonian terrigenous- carbonate complex. ........................................................................................................ 29 4.2.9 Groundwater body BYPRGW0009 -is an aquifer Pinsky and Vendian terrigenous complex. ......................................................................................................................... 30 4.2.10 Groundwater body BYPRGW0010-water-bearing archaean-Lower Proterozoic terrigenous complex (Mikashevichi quarry). ................................................................... 31 4.2.11 Groundwater body BYPRGW0011 -local water object (Soligorsk industrial rayon) ....... 31 ENI/2016/372-403 3 Final Report Groundwater body delineation and monitoring in Pripyat river basin - Belarus 4.3 List of identified pressures (loads) associated with groundwater for each groundwater body, including potential pollutants and the most important ecosystems ................................ 33 4.4 Uncertainties, open problems and gaps in data / information .................................................. 39 5 current situation of GW Monitoring in natural and disturbed operation conditions in the Pripyat river basin ............................................................................................................................. 40 5.1 Brief description of the water legislation of the Republic of Belarus (including the Pripyat river basin) ................................................................................................................................ 40 5.2 Development of groundwater monitoring in the territory of the Republic of Belarus (including the Pripyat river basin). ............................................................................................ 41 5.3 Natural regime of groundwater in the Pripyat river basin ......................................................... 43 5.3.1 Factors of formation of hydrodynamic and hydrogeochemical groundwater regimes in the Pripyat river basin ................................................................................... 44 5.3.2 Hydrogeochemical analysis of groundwater data of the Pripyat river basin for 2017 ................................................................................................................................ 47 5.3.3 Hydrodynamic analysis of groundwater data of the Pripyat river basin for 2017 ........... 52 5.4 Disturbed groundwater regime in the Pripyat river basin ......................................................... 53 5.5 Local groundwater monitoring in the Pripyat riverbasin ........................................................... 61 5.6 Inventory of existing groundwater monitoring sites .................................................................. 61 5.6.1 Existing and potential groundwater monitoring sites in GWB BYPRGW0001 and BYPRGW0002................................................................................................................ 65 5.6.2 Existing and potential groundwater monitoring sites in BYPRGW0003 ......................... 67 5.6.3 Existing and potential groundwater monitoring sites in BYPRGW0004 ......................... 68 5.6.4 Existing and potential groundwater monitoring sites in BYPRGW0005 ......................... 69 5.6.5 Existing and potential groundwater monitoring sites in BYPRGW0006 ......................... 70 5.6.6 Existing and potential groundwater monitoring sites in BYPRGW0007 ......................... 71 5.6.7 Existing and potential groundwater monitoring sites in BYPRGW0008 ......................... 72 5.6.8 Existing and potential groundwater monitoring sites in BYPRGW0009 ......................... 73 5.6.9 Inventory of existing and potential groundwater monitoring sites of ground water bodies BYPRGW0010 and BYPRGW0011 .................................................................... 74 6 proposed revised network of GW monitoring – basis for further discussion .................................... 76 6.1 Requirements of the EU Water Framework Directive for groundwater monitoring .................. 76 6.2 Proposals and recommendations on the optimal regime network of wells and GW monitoring