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Projectnaam: FRESHMAN - Sustainable Freshwater Management in coastal zones
LIFE Programma: Climate action
Objective: to increase strategic freshwater reserve + new source for drinking water
What: demonstration project brackish water extraction in the dunes (NL) and a creek ridge (BE)
Where: PS Scheveningen (Dunea) and Avekapelle, Flanders (Watergroup)
Consortium: Dunea, Watergroep/Aquaduin, KWR, Allied waters
Subcontractors: HWL, Deltares, Arcadis, grondboorbedrijf Haitjema en Logisticon water treatment
Coordinator: Dunea
Duration: July 2020 - December 2025
Project budget: 6.3 million euro
EU subsidy: 3.1 million euro (49%)

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How much water can be extracted in this way?
Does Dunea have enough stock? When will the stock be insufficient?
What techniques are used? In the pilot we will gain operational experience with extraction and purification (desalination by reverse osmosis) of brackish groundwater, and with abstraction of groundwater in a changing brackish/sweet environment. The effects of withdrawal are portrayed by various monitoring wells. This way we gain a better understanding of the operation of the fresh/salt groundwater system on site, so that we can also better understand and model the larger concept of brackish water extraction.

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