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    Salt water intrusion in the shallow aquifers of Venice lagoon mainland

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    The Venetian inland, due do its location close to the Venice Lagoon and the Adriatic Sea, and to the anthropogenic pressure, is interested by salinization processes of soil and groundwater. The occurrence of salt water intrusion phenomenon is a known process, due to both natural and anthropogenic factors.\ud The aim of this paper is to give a short overview of the major achievements obtained from hydrogeochemical studies performed across the Venetian coastal area between 2003 and 2008 on about 60 shallow piezometers

    Intrusione Salina

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    AGIP, 1994. Acque dolci sotterranee, Inventario dei dati raccolti dall’Agip durante la ricerca di idrocarburi in Italia dal 1971 al 1990. Roma, Italy, Agip S.p.A., 515 pp. Beaty, R.D., Kerber J.D., 1993. Concepts, Instrumentation and Techniques in Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry, Perkin-Elmer Corporation, Norwalk Benvenuti, G., Norinelli, A., Zambrano, R., 1973. Contributo alla conoscenza del sottosuolo dell’area circumlagunare veneta mediante sondaggi elettrici verticali. Bollettino di Geofisica Teorica e Applicata XV (57), 23-38. Benvenuti, G., Norinelli A., 1974. Studio geofisico di interfaccia acqua dolce- acqua marina nell’area circumlagunare veneta e nella zona delle sorgenti del Chidro (Taranto), Memorie degli Istituti di Geologia e Mineralogia dell’Università di Padova, 1974, vol. XXXI, 1-16 Bixio, A.C., Putti, M., Tosi, L., Carbognin, L., Gambolati, G., 1998. Finite Element Modeling of Salt water Intrusion in the Venice Aquifer System. In: Computational Methods in Surface and Ground Water Transport, 2, 193-200, Burganos V.N. et al. (Eds.), Suthampton, UK. Bondesan, A., Meneghel, M., 2004. Geomorfologia della Provincia di Venezia: Note Illustrative della Carta Geomorfologica della Provincia di Venezia, Esedra Editrice Brambati, A., Carbognin, L., Quaia, T., Teatini, P., Tosi, L., 2003. The Lagoon of Venice: geological setting, evolution and land subsidence. Episodes, 26(3), 264-268. Carbognin, L., Tosi, L., 2003. Il Progetto ISES per l’analisi dei processi di intrusione salina e subsidenza nei territori meridionali delle Province di Padova e Venezia. Grafiche Erredici Padova (Italy), 95 pp. Carbognin, L., P. Teatini & L. Tosi, 2004, Eustasy and land subsidence in the Venice Lagoon at the beginning of the new millennium. Journal of Marine Systems, 51, 345-353. Carbognin L., Teatini P. & L. Tosi, 2005. Land Subsidence in the venetian area: known and recent aspects. Giornale di Geologia Applicata 1,2005, 5–11, doi: 10.1474/GGA.2005-01.0-01.0001. Carbognin, L., Teatini, P., Tomasin, A., Tosi, L., 2009. Global change and relative sea level rise at Venice: what impact in term of flooding. Climate Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s00382-009-0617-5. Clark I., Fritz P. 1997. Environmental Isotopes in Hydrogeology, Lewis Publisher, 1997 Cozzi R., Protti P., Raro T. 1987. Analisi chimica: Moderni metodi strumentali, ESU Spa Craig H. 1961. Isotopic variations in meteoric waters, Science 133, 1702-1703 De Franco, R., Biella, G., Tosi, L., Teatini, P., Lozej, A., Chiozzotto, B., Giada, M., Rizzetto, F., Claude, C., Mayer, A., Bassan, V., Gasparetto-Stori, G., 2009. Monitoring the saltwater intrusion by time lapse electrical resistivity tomography: The Chioggia test site (Venice Lagoon, Italy). Journal of Applied Geophysics, 69, 117-130. Di Sipio E., Galgaro A., Zuppi G.M. and Zangheri P., 2005. Detecting the origin of salt water contamination in groundwater in a lagoon area by the combined use of geophysical and geochemical tools: the example of the southern Venice Lagoon mainland. Groundwater and saline intrusion. Proceedings of the 18th Salt Water Intrusion Meeting. Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Madrid, Spain, Hidrogeología y Aguas Subterráneas Series, 15, 373-384 Di Sipio, E., Galgaro, A., Zuppi, G. M., 2006. New geophysical knowledge of groundwater systems in Venice estuarine environment. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 66, 6-12. Di Sipio, E., Galgaro, A., Zuppi, G. M., 2007. Contaminazione salina nei sistemi acquiferi dell’entroterra meridionale della Laguna di Venezia, Giornale di Geologia Applicata, 6, 01-08. Di Sipio, E., Galgaro, A.,Rapaglia J., Zuppi G.M., 2008. Salt water contamination on Venice Lagoon mainland: new evaluation of origin, extension and dynamics. Proceedings 1st SWIM-SWICA Int. Joint Saltwater Intrusion Conference, , Cagliari-Chia Laguna, Italy, 3ESSE Commerciale, (CA), 195-204 Galgaro, A., Finzi, E., Tosi, L., 2000, An experiment on a sand-dune environment in Southern Venetian coast based on GPR, VES and documentary evidence. Annals of Geophysics, 43(2), 289-295. Gattacceca, J. C., Vallet-Coulomb, C., Mayer, A., Claude, C., Radakovitch, O., Conchetto, E., Hamelin, B., 2009. Isotopic and geochemical characterization of salinization in the shallow aquifers of a reclaimed subsiding zone: The southern Venice Lagoon coastland. Journal of Hydrology 378 (1-2), 46-61. Gonfiantini R., Stichler W., Rozanski K., 1995. Standards and intercomparison materials distributed by the International Atomic Energy Agency for stable isotope measurements. Reference and Intercomparison Material of Stable Isotopes of Light Elements. IAEA-TECDOC-825, Vienna, 13-29 Norinelli A., 1986. Elementi di geofisica applicata, Patron Editore, Bologna Oude Essink G.H.P., 2001. Improving fresh groundwater supply problems and solutions, Ocean & Coastal Management, 44, 2001, 429-449 Rapaglia J., Di Sipio E., Bokuniewicz H., Zuppi G.M., Zaggia L., Galgaro A., Beck A., 2010. Groundwater connections under a barrier beach: a case study in the Venice Lagoon, Continental Shelf Research, 30 (2), 119-126 Reynolds J.M., 2001. An introduction to applied and environmental geophysics, John Wiley & Sons Editors Rizzetto, F., Tosi, L., Carbognin, L., Bonardi, M., Teatini, P., 2003. Geomorphological setting and related hydrogeological implications of the coastal plain south of the Venice Lagoon (Italy). In: Servat, E., et al. (eds.), Hydrology of the Mediterranean and Semiarid Regions, IAHS Publ. n. 278, Wallingford, UK. pp. 463-470. Teatini, P., Tosi, L., Strozzi, T., Carbognin, L., Wegmüller, U., Rizzetto, F., 2005. Mapping regional land displacements in the Venice coastland by an integrated monitoring system. Remote Sensing of Environment 98, 403-413. Tosi, L., Teatini, P., Carbognin, L., Brancolini, G., 2009a. Using high resolution data to reveal depth-dependent mechanisms that drive land subsidence: The Venice coast, Italy, Tectonophysics, 474(1-2), 271-284. Viezzoli, A., Tosi, L., Teatini, P., Silvestri, S., 2010. Surface water-groundwater exchange in transitional coastal environments by airborne electromagnetics: the Venice Lagoon example. Geophysical Research Letters, 37, L01402. Vandenbohede A., Lebbe L., 2006. Occurrence of salt water above fresh water in dynamic equilibrium in a coastal groundwater flow system near De Panne, Belgium, Hydrogeology Journal, 14, 2006, 462-472. Zezza F., Di Sipio E., 2008. Salt Water Intrusion in The Shallow Aquifers of Venice, Proceeding of the 20th Salt Water Intrusion Meeting SWIM, Naples, Florida, USA, June 23-27, 2008, 59-62 Zezza F., 2008: Geologia, proprietà e deformazione dei terreni del centro storico di Venezia. Secondo Convegno 'La riqualificazione delle città e dei territori', Geologia e Progettazione nel centro storico di Venezia' in Quaderni IUAV n. 54 pp. 9-41. Ed. Il Poligrafo, Padova Zuppi G.M., Sacchi E. 2004. Dynamic processes in the Venice Region outlined by environmental isotopes. Isotopes in environmental and health studies, 40, 35-44Published531-5506A. Monitoraggio ambientale, sicurezza e territorioope

    An integrated 3D approach to assess the geothermal heat-exchange potential: The case study of western Sicily (southern Italy)

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    This paper presents a multidisciplinary methodology to estimate the underground heat-exchange potential for Borehole Heat Exchangers (BHEs) coupled with Ground Source Heat Pumps (GSHPs) over wide areas. The proposed methodology was tested in four sites in western Sicily (southern Italy) where the shortage of subsurface geological data, in addition to the undefined authorization processes for this kind of system, is probably the main barrier to planning and exploiting geothermal heat for heating and cooling purposes. Reliable high-resolution 3D geological and petrophysical models were built based on the integration of airborne electromagnetic data and laboratory measurements of the thermal properties of rock samples. A GIS-based procedure was applied to assess the geothermal heat-exchange potential using 3D models of thermal conductivity as the main input. The results of the analyses are represented by thematic maps of the underground heat exchange potential for BHEs coupled with GSHPs. The study areas show a generally high suitability for the use of this technology and several municipalities in the area could take advantage of the resulting maps for energy planning

    Intrusione Salina

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    AGIP, 1994. Acque dolci sotterranee, Inventario dei dati raccolti dall’Agip durante la ricerca di idrocarburi in Italia dal 1971 al 1990. Roma, Italy, Agip S.p.A., 515 pp. Beaty, R.D., Kerber J.D., 1993. Concepts, Instrumentation and Techniques in Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry, Perkin-Elmer Corporation, Norwalk Benvenuti, G., Norinelli, A., Zambrano, R., 1973. Contributo alla conoscenza del sottosuolo dell’area circumlagunare veneta mediante sondaggi elettrici verticali. Bollettino di Geofisica Teorica e Applicata XV (57), 23-38. Benvenuti, G., Norinelli A., 1974. Studio geofisico di interfaccia acqua dolce- acqua marina nell’area circumlagunare veneta e nella zona delle sorgenti del Chidro (Taranto), Memorie degli Istituti di Geologia e Mineralogia dell’Università di Padova, 1974, vol. XXXI, 1-16 Bixio, A.C., Putti, M., Tosi, L., Carbognin, L., Gambolati, G., 1998. Finite Element Modeling of Salt water Intrusion in the Venice Aquifer System. In: Computational Methods in Surface and Ground Water Transport, 2, 193-200, Burganos V.N. et al. (Eds.), Suthampton, UK. Bondesan, A., Meneghel, M., 2004. Geomorfologia della Provincia di Venezia: Note Illustrative della Carta Geomorfologica della Provincia di Venezia, Esedra Editrice Brambati, A., Carbognin, L., Quaia, T., Teatini, P., Tosi, L., 2003. The Lagoon of Venice: geological setting, evolution and land subsidence. Episodes, 26(3), 264-268. Carbognin, L., Tosi, L., 2003. Il Progetto ISES per l’analisi dei processi di intrusione salina e subsidenza nei territori meridionali delle Province di Padova e Venezia. Grafiche Erredici Padova (Italy), 95 pp. Carbognin, L., P. Teatini & L. Tosi, 2004, Eustasy and land subsidence in the Venice Lagoon at the beginning of the new millennium. Journal of Marine Systems, 51, 345-353. Carbognin L., Teatini P. & L. Tosi, 2005. Land Subsidence in the venetian area: known and recent aspects. Giornale di Geologia Applicata 1,2005, 5–11, doi: 10.1474/GGA.2005-01.0-01.0001. Carbognin, L., Teatini, P., Tomasin, A., Tosi, L., 2009. Global change and relative sea level rise at Venice: what impact in term of flooding. Climate Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s00382-009-0617-5. Clark I., Fritz P. 1997. Environmental Isotopes in Hydrogeology, Lewis Publisher, 1997 Cozzi R., Protti P., Raro T. 1987. Analisi chimica: Moderni metodi strumentali, ESU Spa Craig H. 1961. Isotopic variations in meteoric waters, Science 133, 1702-1703 De Franco, R., Biella, G., Tosi, L., Teatini, P., Lozej, A., Chiozzotto, B., Giada, M., Rizzetto, F., Claude, C., Mayer, A., Bassan, V., Gasparetto-Stori, G., 2009. Monitoring the saltwater intrusion by time lapse electrical resistivity tomography: The Chioggia test site (Venice Lagoon, Italy). Journal of Applied Geophysics, 69, 117-130. Di Sipio E., Galgaro A., Zuppi G.M. and Zangheri P., 2005. Detecting the origin of salt water contamination in groundwater in a lagoon area by the combined use of geophysical and geochemical tools: the example of the southern Venice Lagoon mainland. Groundwater and saline intrusion. Proceedings of the 18th Salt Water Intrusion Meeting. Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Madrid, Spain, Hidrogeología y Aguas Subterráneas Series, 15, 373-384 Di Sipio, E., Galgaro, A., Zuppi, G. M., 2006. New geophysical knowledge of groundwater systems in Venice estuarine environment. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 66, 6-12. Di Sipio, E., Galgaro, A., Zuppi, G. M., 2007. Contaminazione salina nei sistemi acquiferi dell’entroterra meridionale della Laguna di Venezia, Giornale di Geologia Applicata, 6, 01-08. Di Sipio, E., Galgaro, A.,Rapaglia J., Zuppi G.M., 2008. Salt water contamination on Venice Lagoon mainland: new evaluation of origin, extension and dynamics. Proceedings 1st SWIM-SWICA Int. Joint Saltwater Intrusion Conference, , Cagliari-Chia Laguna, Italy, 3ESSE Commerciale, (CA), 195-204 Galgaro, A., Finzi, E., Tosi, L., 2000, An experiment on a sand-dune environment in Southern Venetian coast based on GPR, VES and documentary evidence. Annals of Geophysics, 43(2), 289-295. Gattacceca, J. C., Vallet-Coulomb, C., Mayer, A., Claude, C., Radakovitch, O., Conchetto, E., Hamelin, B., 2009. Isotopic and geochemical characterization of salinization in the shallow aquifers of a reclaimed subsiding zone: The southern Venice Lagoon coastland. Journal of Hydrology 378 (1-2), 46-61. Gonfiantini R., Stichler W., Rozanski K., 1995. Standards and intercomparison materials distributed by the International Atomic Energy Agency for stable isotope measurements. Reference and Intercomparison Material of Stable Isotopes of Light Elements. IAEA-TECDOC-825, Vienna, 13-29 Norinelli A., 1986. Elementi di geofisica applicata, Patron Editore, Bologna Oude Essink G.H.P., 2001. Improving fresh groundwater supply problems and solutions, Ocean & Coastal Management, 44, 2001, 429-449 Rapaglia J., Di Sipio E., Bokuniewicz H., Zuppi G.M., Zaggia L., Galgaro A., Beck A., 2010. Groundwater connections under a barrier beach: a case study in the Venice Lagoon, Continental Shelf Research, 30 (2), 119-126 Reynolds J.M., 2001. An introduction to applied and environmental geophysics, John Wiley & Sons Editors Rizzetto, F., Tosi, L., Carbognin, L., Bonardi, M., Teatini, P., 2003. Geomorphological setting and related hydrogeological implications of the coastal plain south of the Venice Lagoon (Italy). In: Servat, E., et al. (eds.), Hydrology of the Mediterranean and Semiarid Regions, IAHS Publ. n. 278, Wallingford, UK. pp. 463-470. Teatini, P., Tosi, L., Strozzi, T., Carbognin, L., Wegmüller, U., Rizzetto, F., 2005. Mapping regional land displacements in the Venice coastland by an integrated monitoring system. Remote Sensing of Environment 98, 403-413. Tosi, L., Teatini, P., Carbognin, L., Brancolini, G., 2009a. Using high resolution data to reveal depth-dependent mechanisms that drive land subsidence: The Venice coast, Italy, Tectonophysics, 474(1-2), 271-284. Viezzoli, A., Tosi, L., Teatini, P., Silvestri, S., 2010. Surface water-groundwater exchange in transitional coastal environments by airborne electromagnetics: the Venice Lagoon example. Geophysical Research Letters, 37, L01402. Vandenbohede A., Lebbe L., 2006. Occurrence of salt water above fresh water in dynamic equilibrium in a coastal groundwater flow system near De Panne, Belgium, Hydrogeology Journal, 14, 2006, 462-472. Zezza F., Di Sipio E., 2008. Salt Water Intrusion in The Shallow Aquifers of Venice, Proceeding of the 20th Salt Water Intrusion Meeting SWIM, Naples, Florida, USA, June 23-27, 2008, 59-62 Zezza F., 2008: Geologia, proprietà e deformazione dei terreni del centro storico di Venezia. Secondo Convegno 'La riqualificazione delle città e dei territori', Geologia e Progettazione nel centro storico di Venezia' in Quaderni IUAV n. 54 pp. 9-41. Ed. Il Poligrafo, Padova Zuppi G.M., Sacchi E. 2004. Dynamic processes in the Venice Region outlined by environmental isotopes. Isotopes in environmental and health studies, 40, 35-44Published531-5506A. Monitoraggio ambientale, sicurezza e territorioope

    UTES Capability Evaluation and Mapping

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    During the last decades, the increasing number of co-generation plants and solar thermal systems developed worldwide and the need for more efficient energy use in buildings and cooling made the employment of Underground Thermal Energy Storage (UTES) systems increasingly interesting. The possibility to store the waste heat and the excessive heat production generated by solar panels, biomass plants, and industrial processes in the underground in the warm season to recover it during cold periods, enables energy cost savings and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. However, the thermal efficiency of storage is strictly dependent on the different geological conditions characterizing the territory. Among others, one of the key priorities for the proper assessment of the heat storage suitability in the underground is the knowledge of the thermal properties of rocks and sediments, as heat capacity and thermal conductivity, necessary to quantify the heat storage capability and the potential losses of the system. This paper aims to show the first results related to the thermal characterization of several lithotypes belonging to Eastern Italian Alps. Moreover, an example of subsoil thermal properties mapping through geographical information systems (GIS) is presented. These maps allow to obtain a low enthalpy geothermal cartography and constitutes an important support, suited to real underground conditions, for UTES plants design and for policy makers taking decisions concerning promoting and control diffusion of the shallow geothermal solutions
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