International Cooperation for the Mapping of Buried Valley Aquifer Systems – The Project BurVal

The project BurVal has been established to study systematically buried Pleistocene subglacial channels valleys - or in short buried valleys - of the North Sea Region. The aim of the project BurVal is to develop tools for the mapping of buried valleys under the aspect of groundwater exploration and protection, to test and demonstrate these tools at selected Pilot project areas, and to show how these mapping results can contribute to a sustainable use of the water resources. Nine partners from Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands cooperated in this project.