Credits

There have many individuals and organizations who have contributed their time and financial resources to initiate and develop a wellhead protection plan and related drinking water programming activities in Vilnius. We hope this is the beginning of a comprehensive groundwater and drinking water strategy and that the lessons learned here and in Siauliai will provide the background for a national strategy in this important field of environmental protection in Lithuania.

In particular, the Fogerty Program and the University of Illinois have supported in part the development of this site and other projects such as an inventory of potential threats in wellhead protection zones, a total organic carbon study in water supply systems, and the organization of a planning conference in Vilnius.

Vilnius Gediminas Technical University has undertaken much of the work on an elaborate project to inventory potential threats to well fields in Vilnius. We would like to thank the following individuals who spent their time providing this vital information to further wellhead protection and management efforts in the city.

Algimantas Bakas, Ph.D.,Environmental Protection Department, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
Gytautas Ignatavicius, Doctoral Candidate, Environmental Protection Department, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
Egidijus Petraitis, M.S. Candidate, Environmental Protection Department, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
Elena Talockaite, M.S., Environmental Protection Department, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
Andrius Rimkevicius, B.S., Environmental Protection Department, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University

The development of this web site was initiated and continues by Randolph Flay who is working in Lithuania through the Fulbright Program.