“…Monitoring comprised the uppermost three regional aquifer systems, but not all of them are contiguous (Hennig et al, 2002). In addition to the regional aquifer systems, in some areas shallow local aquifers with an extent of usually a few square kilometres, occasionally more than 100 km 2 , have been identified and are monitored as well (Hilgert and Hennig, 2017). These local aquifers are not strictly hydraulically decoupled from the regional aquifer systems, but their hydraulic connection is inhibited (Hilgert and Hennig, 2017).…”