1. WG C – Groundwater Activity WGC-3 – Integrated Risk Assessment and Management (IRAM) Sub group Conceptual model development Dietmar Müller, Wouter Geaverts, Thomas Track

2. CM Guidance structure 1 Introduction & Definitions 2 Basic procedure
3 Requirements to a CM
3.1 Questions to be answered by a CM
3.2 Area to be considered
3.3 Processes to be considered
4 Data
4.1 Data needs
4.2 (existing) Data review
4.3 Data collection/acquisition
5 Conceptual model set-up, documentation/visualisation
5.1 Basic CM desciption/parameterisation
5.2 Risk based requirements (step2)
5.3 Management based requirements (step 3)
5.4 Documentation/visualisation
6 Validation of CM, quality assurance
7 Application of CM in risk assessment
8 Application of CM in risk management
9 Glossary
10 References
I Annexes

3. CM link to existing Guidance documents
Definition
Recommen-dation
no 3, Pressures and Impacts - +
no 7, Monitoring
no 12, The role of Wetlands
no 15,Groundwater Monitoring
no 16, Drinking Water Protected Areas
no 17, Guidance on Preventing or Limiting Direct and Indirect Inputs
no 18, Guidance on Groundwater Status and Trend Assessment

4. Evolving CM
Guidance on GW Monitoring

5. Annexes Toolbox of methods Examples Tracing experiments
stable isotope analysis ….
Examples
Source: R. Wolter 2009

6. Risk Assessment Further planning
drafting
May 29 (draft chapters)
June 15 (draft document assembled)
drafting group meeting:
June 29/30 (RA/CM); Frankfurt
September 4 / 30: draft document
group meeting: October 14, Stockholm