Reply to the comment of Marti Bayer-Raich, Jerker Jarsjoe and Georg Teutsch on 'Analysis of groundwater contamination using concentration-time series recorded during an integral pumping test: Bias introduced by strong concentration gradients within the p

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We thank Bayer-Raich et al. (2007-this issue) for taking an interest in our work. The research described by Zeru and Schaefer (2005) was conducted within the European project INCORE (Contract EVK1-CT-1999-00017) where the authors of the comment have been involved as participants. From our side, they have regularly been informed about the progress of our research (e.g. Zeru and Schaefer, 2003a,b). But unfortunately, and we do regret for the human difficulties encountered, which forced us now to state that this written comment of Bayer-Raich et al. is the first scientific feedback from them, keeping in mind that they were a part of the origin of the scientific and technical concept of the integral pumping test (IPT).