1. Territory occupation in the protection perimeter area of the São Pedro do Sul medical spa - The situation of the new aquatic leisure equipment of Hotel do Parque (Portugal).
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Ferreira-Gomes, Luís M., Alves, João, Jorge, Ana, and Gonçalves, Liliana
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HOTEL equipment , *NATURAL resources , *MINERAL waters , *MEDICAL spas , *GROUNDWATER quality , *MINERALS in water - Abstract
The São Pedro do Sul Medical Spa is one of the driving forces behind the development of the region. The entire activity of the medical spa is based on available hydromineral resource: a natural mineral water, sulphureous and hot. For the entire medical spa process to work normally, there is a strict notion that the natural mineral water exploited in the abstractions cannot, in any way, change its physical-chemical quality. At the same time, in the proximity of the medical spa there is continuous urbanistic pressure, especially for new facilities such as the desire to build new hotels, or improve existing ones, with the inclusion of new aqualudic spaces, among others. This activity associated with territory occupation, in the proximity of the natural mineral water abstractions, can potentially interfere with local normal groundwater, and even potentiate the contamination of the hydromineral resource. It is in this context that this paper is carried out. Thus, in this work, after an item "introduction", relatively well developed, with the explanation of the subject impact, and the legislative framework, a concrete case is presented, which is the intention to build new outdoor pools, to be associated with the current Hotel do Parque. The various legal bureaucratic procedures associated with technical-scientific aspects are presented, and it should be noted that the new intention (construction of new pools) had a favorable technical advice but imposing some changes to the project and fundamentally requiring the installation of special piezometers, to monitor the quality of groundwater in the proximity of the future pools, over time. In the following, the morphological, geological and hydrogeological aspects are summarized, and in some detail, elements of the design/construction of the piezometers are presented, as well as the results of the quality of the groundwater intersected with them. Finally, the main conclusions and recommendations to be considered in the future are mentioned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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