Research Facilities

The laboratory performs chemical and physical analysis of soil and water samples.

In August 2014, a tree-lysimeter facility with 6 lysimeters was set up at the Jaegerhausgasse branch of the Hoehere Bundeslehr- und Forschungsanstalt fuer Gartenbau Schoenbrunn. This facility is a joint project of the Magistrate 22 of the City of Vienna, the HBLV for Horticulture Schoenbrunn, the association LandschafftWasser and the Federal Office for Water Management in Petzenkirchen.

Lysimeters are an important instrument for measuring the soil water balance and for tracing water and material flows in the soil. In the microlysimeter facility in Petzenkirchen, the relevant processes can take place on a small scale and under controllable conditions.

Lysimeters are an important instrument for measuring the soil water balance and for tracing water and material flows in the soil. In order to be able to evaluate the water flow in coarse sediments, which are often carriers of significant groundwater deposits, a cylinder with undisturbed gravel, in total 4 m high, was installed and instrumented in the Institute.

The hydrological open air laboratory HOAL (Hydrological Open Air Laboratory) is located in the immediate vicinity of the BAW-IKT Petzenkirchen.