“…The major advantage of CFCs and SF 6 resides in the possibility to discriminate different water bodies considering various mixing models (piston flow, binary or exponential), providing information on aquifer functioning (Cook et al, 1995;Jodar et al, 2014;Kashiwaya et al, 2014;Zuber et al, 2005). CFCs and SF 6 are commonly considered as pertinent dating tracers but there are nevertheless some limits to their use (Kashiwaya et al, 2014). CFCs may be affected by the transfer processes in the unsaturated zone, local contaminations and degradation processes in anoxic environments causing most of the time offsets to groundwater aging (Aeschbach-Hertig et al, 1998;Beyerle et al, 1999;Gooddy et al, 2006;Gourcy et al, 2009;Heaton and Vogel, 1981;Schwientek et al, 2009).…”