HCOV_0250, Miocene Aquifer System Prevent Area

Flanders is made up of a variety of aquifers (sand, gravel, chalk, solid rock,...) and regionally occurring non-aquifers (e.g. clay). The sequence of these aquifers and aquitards has its own coding in Flanders: the Hydrogeological Coding of the Underground of Flanders (HCOV coding). The HCOV coding is made up of hydrogeological main, sub- and basic units. The main unit groups a sequence of geological layers that have broadly the same hydrogeological properties and thus form a whole. The main hydrogeological unit Kempens Aquifer system is formed by all tertiary and quartary deposits above the Boomer clay layer. Geographically, these layers are mainly found in the Kempen basin. This is the zone northeast of the dayzoming of the Formation of Boom. This hydrogeological zone consists mainly of a sequence of various tertiary and quartary sands, interspersed with or not important local clay layers. The sub-unit “HCOV_0250 Miocene Aquifer system” concerns the main hydrogeological unit in the Kempen, consisting mainly of Miocene deposits. The aquifer is formed by the sands belonging to the formats of Diest, Berchem, Bolderberg, Voort and Eigenbilzen.