Environmental status of an Italian site highly polluted by illegal dumping of industrial wastes: The situation 15 years after the judicial intervention

Vitali, Matteo; Castellani, Federica; Fragassi, Giorgia; Mascitelli, Alfonso; Martellucci, Cecilia Acuti; Diletti, Gianfranco; Scamosci, Emanuela; Astolfi, Maria Luisa; Fabiani, L; Mastrantonio, Riccardo; Protano, Carmela; Spica, Vincenzo Romano; Manzoli, Lamberto

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144100

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“…Extent of Contamination ≤1 safe (1,2] slight contamination (2,3] moderate contamination >3 severe contamination…”

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“…The rapid development of urbanization in Shanghai caused an increase in heavy metal emissions and then polluted groundwater [1]. However, industrial waste was the main pollution factor among the multiple pollution sources [2]. As this has not been properly treated before discharge, the result is an increasing pollution risk in groundwater [3][4][5].…”

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Identify Priority Control Pollutants and Areas of Groundwater in an Old Metropolitan Industrial Area—A Case Study of Putuo, Shanghai, China

Yuan

Wang

2022

Water

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Industrial activities have raised widespread concerns about groundwater pollution and human health. Shanghai’s industrial land has been polluting the groundwater for more than 30 years; however, it is not clear whether it poses a risk to human health. This study explores the health risk degree in different groups of groundwater in old industrial areas in Shanghai, China. We selected eight heavy metal elements (As, Cd, Cr, Ni, Hg, Pb, Cu, and Zn) as the research objects and analyzed the characteristics of concentrations and spatial distribution using single factor index and geostatistical analytical methods. Results indicated that the average concentrations of As and Hg were higher than the environmental standards. Meanwhile, As, Ni, Hg and Pb in groundwater were notable anthropogenic inputs. Compared with irrigation cropland, the pollution of Ni, Pb and As in industrial land was obviously more serious. In addition, the health risk assessment results indicated the priority control pollutants of non-carcinogenic risk and carcinogenic risk are As and Cr, respectively. Our results showed that human activities have deeply increased heavy metal concentrations in groundwater, which in turn poses risks to human health. These findings provide scientific support for urban managers to reduce residents’ drinking water risks.

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“…Extent of Contamination ≤1 safe (1,2] slight contamination (2,3] moderate contamination >3 severe contamination…”

Section: Range Of Pi or Nimentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Identify Priority Control Pollutants and Areas of Groundwater in an Old Metropolitan Industrial Area—A Case Study of Putuo, Shanghai, China

Yuan

Wang

2022

Water

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“…Several spills of the chemical occurred during the operation of these facilities that have led to chlorinated hydrocarbon (PCE) contamination of approximately 18 thousand sites in the country (SEPA 2014). Furthermore, industrial waste could also contaminate the soil and the underlying aquifers when not handled properly (Zhou et al 2019;Vitali et al 2021).…”

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Temporal filtering and time-lapse inversion of geoelectrical data for long-term monitoring with application to a chlorinated hydrocarbon contaminated site

Nivorlis

Rossi

Dahlin

2021

Geophysical Journal International

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SUMMARY We present a solution for long-term direct current resistivity and time-domain induced polarization (DCIP) monitoring, which consists of a monitoring system and the associated software that automates the data collection and processing. This paper describes the acquisition system that is used for remote data collection and then introduces the routines that have been developed for pre-processing of the monitoring data set. The collected data set is pre-processed using digital signal processing algorithms for outlier detection and removal; the resulting data set is then used for the inversion procedure. The suggested processing workflow is tested against a simulated time-lapse experiment and then applied to field data. The results from the simulation show that the suggested approach is very efficient for detecting changes in the subsurface; however, there are some limitations when no a priori information is used. Furthermore, the mean weekly data sets that are generated from the daily collected data can resolve low-frequency changes, making the approach a good option for monitoring experiments where slow changes occur (i.e. leachates in landfills, internal erosion in dams, bioremediation). The workflow is then used to process a large data set containing 20 months of daily monitoring data from a field site where a pilot test of in situ bioremediation is taking place. Based on the time-series analysis of the inverted data sets, we can detect two portions of the ground that show different geophysical properties and that coincide with the locations where the different fluids were injected. The approach that we used in this paper provides consistency in the data processing and has the possibility to be applied to further real-time geophysical monitoring in the future.

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“…Nowadays the environment encounters large, polluted areas, such as soils or sediments from landfills [1] and wastewater treatment. The reuse of these field soils is increasingly demanded due to urban expansion and their use in the agriculture.…”

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Preliminary evaluation of the role of activated carbon in soil/water remediation

Мухин¹,

Koroleov²,

Mednyak³

et al. 2021

RJEEC

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This paper presents brief scientific information concerning the role of activated carbons (AC) in solving economic and ecological problems in our society. Data concerning synthesis and adsorption of new activated carbons, used for soil remediation and wastewater treatment are depicted. The findings of investigations aimed to compare the structure parameters and adsorption capacities of the newly obtained native activated carbons in comparison with several activated carbon marks known in the world are explained. It has been shown that currently synthesized activated carbons are competitive with foreign marks.

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Environmental status of an Italian site highly polluted by illegal dumping of industrial wastes: The situation 15 years after the judicial intervention

Cited by 12 publications

References 108 publications

Identify Priority Control Pollutants and Areas of Groundwater in an Old Metropolitan Industrial Area—A Case Study of Putuo, Shanghai, China

Identify Priority Control Pollutants and Areas of Groundwater in an Old Metropolitan Industrial Area—A Case Study of Putuo, Shanghai, China

Temporal filtering and time-lapse inversion of geoelectrical data for long-term monitoring with application to a chlorinated hydrocarbon contaminated site

Preliminary evaluation of the role of activated carbon in soil/water remediation

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