The Vis Island belongs to the group of the Middle Dalmatian islands. It comprises an area of about 90.2 km 2 . Morphologically, three belts of highlands and two depressions with karst poljes are significant. The highest point on the island is Hum with 587 m a.s.l. the island's water supply is organized from the water-supply station "Korita", situated in the central part of island, in tectonically formed depression. There are two additional captured objects: the well K-l above the Komiža town and the spring "Pizdica". The most important hydrogeological role on the island have two hydrogeological barriers, one in the Komiža Bay, completely made of impermeable igneous and clastic rocks, and another one, the recently recognized relative barrier in the area of Dračevo, Plisko and Velo polje. Since the island karst aquifer is in permanent dynamic relation with seawater, classical geologic, structural and hydrogeologic investigations have been performed with application of hydrogeochemical methods taking into account the natural Chemical tracer content of groundwater and its variations in different hydrologic and vegetation conditions. Precipitation regime is very unfavorable with regard to the recharging of island's aquifer, because dry periods are usually very long. During the summer tourist season, when the number of inhabitants and fresh water consumption considerably increase, amounts of island's groundwater suitable for water supply and irrigation rapidly decrease. Sometimes, insufficient quantity of fresh water on the Vis Island causes restrictions. Concerning the development of tourist potential and the present agricultural activities, summer lack of water is a serious restrictive factor. Some results of the performed hydrogeological study, important as a basis for island's fresh water potential assessment, will be presented.
Application of the SFNTACS method for assessment of the intrinsic vulnerability of an aquifer is demonstrated in the catchment areas of the Jadro and Zmovnica springs. Both springs provide drinking water, supplying the population of Split and the surrounding settlements. Rapid economic expansion in the catchment area, accompanied with an increasing trend in the quantity of a number of contaminants in the spring water, prompted comprehensive investigations in order to finalise the Water Management Study of the Jadro and Zmovnica springs. Results of the Study were analysed by GIS tools and employed as input data for production of the groundwater vulnerability map of the Jadro and Zmovnica catchment areas. In addition to the standard method of defining the C factor which, in this case, is represented by the values of C(a), a modification is also introduced which takes into account analysis of sinkliole density.
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