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Efficient Irrigation Management -
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Participation to the project “Identification, consequences and
management of the anoxic zone of Amvrakikos Gulf (NW Greece)”
TEI of Epirus carried out the drainage network GIS digitization of the plain of Arta.
This project will become a useful tool for both the GOLR of Arta plain and relative
LOLRs and for the Directorate for Water of
the Decentralised Administration of Epirus–
Western Macedonia.
IRMA team participated to the project:
(lead partner:
as its object the
“Qualitative and quantitative analysis of inputs
of the drainage ditches at Amvrakikos Gulf and their contribution to the anoxic zone
development”. There were conducted mappings, data collection and interviews with
local agronomists (even with retired ones) in order to try to determine the quantities
of the fertilizers and pesticides that finally reach to the Amvrakikos Gulf.
Also, with the assistance and contribution of the Irrigation and Drainage Laboratory of
TEI of Western Greece and the
were made
measurements of the physicochemical properties of water of rivers and canals that
end up to the Amvrakikos Gulf.
Furthermore, IRMA team participated to the mission of the oceanographic vessel
FILIA of the HCMR where quality measurements of Amvrakikos Gulf’s water were
conducted.