Abstract

The assessment of aquifer vulnerability to agricultural nitrates pollution plays a particularly important role for waterresource management and territorial planning. As well know, nitrates are a major cause of pollution affecting surfacewater bodies and groundwater. The European Directive 91/676/EC (groundwaters protection against contaminationcaused by nitrates from agricultural sources), provides a guidance with the actions/measures to be put in place to reducecontamination caused by inadequate management of manure and/or for the widespread use of synthetic fertilizers. In thepresent work, the data obtained from the activities of apulian groundwater monitoring, conducted by the WaterResearch Institute of the Italian National Research Council (IRSA-CNR), in collaboration with the "Associazione deiConsorzi di Difesa della Puglia" (ASSOCODIPUGLIA), were used to achieve, through modeling approach, a timelyassessment of the potential risk of nitrate pollution on regional scale. In particular, the integration of appropriateinvestigative models, such as DRASTIC to assess the vulnerability of aquifers and, the IPNOA index to estimate thehazard ratios caused by contamination due to agricultural activities, is efficient in mapping the potential risk ofcontamination from nitrates.

Autore Pugliese

• Calabrese Angelantonio , Ancona Valeria , Uricchio Vito Felice

Tutti gli autori

• A. Calabrese; V. Ancona; V.F. Uricchio; C. Campanale;L. Trotta;F. Schiavone; G. Laera; A. Petrelli

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2015

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978-88-7843-043-3

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