Studio delle acque sorgive nel territorio comunale di Chiaravalle Centrale (Cz, Italia)

The study aims to investigate the hydrological and geochemical characteristics of some spring waters, located in the basin of Beltrame river in the municipal area of Chiaravalle Centrale (Catanzaro, Italy), used for local hydropotable purposes. The survey of the active sources, undertaken by National Research Council, Institute for Agricultural and Forest Systems in the Mediterranean, Rende Research Unit (Cosenza, Italy) in a two year period 2008-2009, has enabled to estimate the physical, chemical and hydrological features of these spring waters to evaluate their standards of drinkableness and their hydrokinetics. The analyses have suggested that waters are potable and have enabled to discriminate two spring water groups with different exhausting velocities and with different time lags variable from one to two months compared with rainfall data.