Nitrate trends in groundwater of the Campania region (southern Italy)
| Autor: | Adolfo Mottola, Daniela Ducci, Giuseppe Onorati, Giovanni Pugliano, Renata Della Morte |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Ducci, Daniela, della Morte, Renata, Mottola, Adolfo, Onorati, Giuseppe, Pugliano, Giovanni |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Agricultural land use
Coastal plain Environmental remediation Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Aquifer 010501 environmental sciences Campania region Groundwater body Groundwater monitoring Nitrate pollution Nitrate trends Environmental Chemistry Pollution Health 01 natural sciences chemistry.chemical_compound Nitrate Water Supply Water Quality Humans European Union Groundwater 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Hydrology geography Nitrates geography.geographical_feature_category Land use Water Pollution General Medicine Contamination Italy chemistry Nitrate trend Government Regulation Period (geology) Environmental science Nitrogen Oxides Water Pollutants Chemical Environmental Monitoring |
| Zdroj: | Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 26:2120-2131 |
| ISSN: | 1614-7499 0944-1344 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11356-017-0978-y |
| Popis: | The Environmental Protection Agency of the Campania region in Italy (ARPAC) manages a groundwater quality monitoring network. For almost all the polluted waters, the key parameter driving the classification is the concentration of nitrate; hence, the Campania region, in coherence with the EU regulations, outlined the vulnerable areas and undertook remediation policies. The best groundwater quality is recorded for carbonate aquifers of the Apennine chain; on the contrary, the Tyrrhenian coastal plains are affected by severe contamination, with a locally very contaminated groundwater of the shallow and also the deeper aquifers. The study is especially focused on a large coastal plain of Campania region, where nitrate concentration sometimes exceeds 200 mg/L. The study, based on almost 200 sampling points for the whole region during the period 2003-2015 (approx two samples per year), verified the effectiveness of the groundwater monitoring network, the present distribution of nitrate in groundwater, and the evolution of nitrate trends at different scales: regional, groundwater body, and single well, using spatial and time series statistical approaches. Significant variations in contamination evolution within the study area have been observed and the correlation with land use has been highlighted. |
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