A geo-chemo-mechanical study of a highly polluted marine system (Taranto, Italy) for the enhancement of the conceptual site model

Autor: Pietro Cotugno, Federica Cotecchia, Anna Maria Lucia Lanzolla, V. F. Uricchio, Massimo Moretti, F. Cafaro, A. Di Nisio, Maurizio Spadavecchia, Giulia Cipriano, V. Corbelli, Claudia Vitone, F. De Giosa, A. Tursi, D. Milella, A. Siniscalchi, Emanuela Schingaro, M. Calò, G. Ruggieri, Ernesto Mesto, Daniela Miccoli, G. Romano, G. Capasso, Francesco Todaro, L. Spada, G. Tempesta, Maria Lacalamita, Giuseppe Mascolo, G. Pisciotta, Ruggiero Ciannarella, R. Velardo, Francesco Adamo, A. Di Leo, Stefania Nunzia Lisco, P. De Bellis, N. Cardellicchio, Letizia Sion, Francesca Santaloia, Roberto Carlucci, Michele Notarnicola, Matilda Mali, P. Fago, G. Scardino, Giovanna Agrosì, Francesca Sollecito, P. Manzari, G. Mastronuzzi, S. Giandomenico, Osvaldo Bottiglieri, R. Petti, G. Bagnuolo, Eliana Valenzano, G. De Chiara
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
polluted sediments
Solid Earth sciences
Multidisciplinary research
marine ecosystem
polluted sediments
environmental
remediation
geo-chemo-hydro-mechanical properties
mineralogy
lithology
ecology
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Hydraulic engineering
Science
media_common.quotation_subject
010501 environmental sciences
Structural basin
01 natural sciences
Article
environmental
Land reclamation
Multidisciplinary approach
Limnology
remediation
geo-chemo-hydro-mechanical properties
Risk management
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
media_common
Multidisciplinary research
Government
Multidisciplinary
business.industry
Environmental resource management
Biogeochemistry
lithology
Environmental sciences
marine ecosystem
Redevelopment
Conceptual model
Medicine
Environmental science
Hydrology
mineralogy
ecology
business
Zdroj: Scientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-26 (2021)
Scientific Reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-82879-w
Popis: The paper presents the results of the analysis of the geo-chemo-mechanical data gathered through an innovative multidisciplinary investigation campaign in the Mar Piccolo basin, a heavily polluted marine bay aside the town of Taranto (Southern Italy). The basin is part of an area declared at high environmental risk by the Italian government. The cutting-edge approach to the environmental characterization of the site was promoted by the Special Commissioner for urgent measures of reclamation, environmental improvements and redevelopment of Taranto and involved experts from several research fields, who cooperated to gather a new insight into the origin, distribution, mobility and fate of the contaminants within the basin. The investigation campaign was designed to implement advanced research methodologies and testing strategies. Differently from traditional investigation campaigns, aimed solely at the assessment of the contamination state within sediments lying in the top layers, the new campaign provided an interpretation of the geo-chemo-mechanical properties and state of the sediments forming the deposit at the seafloor. The integrated, multidisciplinary and holistic approach, that considered geotechnical engineering, electrical and electronical engineering, geological, sedimentological, mineralogical, hydraulic engineering, hydrological, chemical, geochemical, biological fields, supported a comprehensive understanding of the influence of the contamination on the hydro-mechanical properties of the sediments, which need to be accounted for in the selection and design of the risk mitigation measures. The findings of the research represent the input ingredients of the conceptual model of the site, premise to model the evolutionary contamination scenarios within the basin, of guidance for the environmental risk management. The study testifies the importance of the cooperative approach among researchers of different fields to fulfil the interpretation of complex polluted eco-systems.
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