European Fundend Projects

  • ID:
    projects-614
  • fiwar:
    LIFE94 ENV/IT/000464
  • Project_Acronym:
    No data
  • Project_Name:
    Monitoring and control of Arno river pollution in the leather manufacturing district.
  • Funding Authority:
    LIFE
  • Call for proposals:
    Environment
  • Focus Area:
    Pollution control,Leather and Footwear
  • Begin Date:
    1995-03-01
  • End Date:
    1997-11-29
  • Status:
    Completed
  • Budget:
    No data
  • Description:
    The Leather Manufacturing District represents the main source of industrial pollution in the Lower Arno Valley. In the period of minimum flow conditions, the effluents of the centralised waste water treatment plants of the District represent a consistent portion of the total river flowrate and contribute to the high pollution conditions of the river, which are transmitted directly to the river mouth. The objective of the present project is to set up a system to monitor and control pollution in the Lower Arno Valley. The main tasks of the project are as follows: 1. Set up of a Data bank supported by a Geographic Information System (Arc-Info) already available to the proposers and users of the project. 2. Development of a dynamic model of river quality based on hydraulic and biochemical submodels. The overall structure of the river network model will be one-dimensional. However, single modules developed for describing special hydrological and biochemical conditions will have a bi/tridimensional structure. 3. Analysis of pollution control methods using the available water reservoirs and/or forced oxygenators installed in positions identified with the model developed in point 2. The basin management and the optimal use of available pollution data, as well as the measurement campaigns performed for model calibration, will be based on a rule and object oriented expert system which will learn and modify the model parameters on the basis of hydrological and pollution data contained in the Data Bank.
  • Resource:
    https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/life/publicWebsite/project/LIFE94-ENV-IT-000464/monitoring-and-control-of-arno-river-pollution-in-the-leather-manufacturing-district
  • Inland water types:
    Rivers and estuaries', 'Water reservoir'