The inland of Brindisi district (ITALY) is represented by a large subflat area where sea calcarenitic and sandy deposits, of Middle-Upper Pleistocenic age, outcrop. These terrains overlay a Calabrian clay layer, that overlaps Mesozoic calcareous-dolomitic rocks and Lower Pleistocenic calcarenites which represents lower terms of Bradanic Trough sedimentary cycle. In this area, two different hydrogeological environments are found: 1) the first is represented by “deep groundwater”, housed by the carbonatic aquifer which represents the main water resource for Apulian Region; 2) the second hydrogeological environment is represented by “surface groundwater”, which is housed by Middle-Upper Pleistocenic deposits and is separated from deep aquifer by a clay layer of variable thickness. An exploitation of two aquifers have complied with a larger request of water resources owing to a gradual anthropization. This situation have caused an increase of wells, which often have been carried out without considering the particular features of two aquifers. This paper represents a further contribute to knowledge of: 1) lithological, geological, structural and hydrogeological features of Brindisi Plane; 2) current quality degree of two groundwaters; 3) interactions between two hydrogeological environments caused by anthropic activities in the investigated area. In particular, a chemical characterization of two groundwaters have highlighted that there is an anthropic contamination of surface aquifer that is not reflected on deep aquifer. Some exceptions are pertinent to local situations, where the wrong realization of pumping-wells links two different hydrogeological environments causing the local contamination of deep aquifer.

La Piana di Brindisi si caratterizza per l’elevata vocazione agricola dei suoi terreni e per la presenza di due acquiferi tra loro ben distinti: uno, più superficiale, costituito dalle sabbie calcarenitiche medio-pleistoceniche e l’altro, più profondo, costituito dai calcari mesozoici. La progressiva antropizzazione del territorio e la consequenziale esigenza di maggiori disponibilità idriche sono state soddisfatte, prevalentemente, attingendo dai due corpi idrici presenti nell’area; questo ha comportato l’intensificarsi di opere di adduzione eseguite, spesso, senza le necessarie conoscenze sulle particolari caratteristiche strutturali dei due acquiferi. Con il presente studio si è voluto portare un ulteriore contributo alle conoscenze: litologiche, geologico-strutturali e idrogeologiche della Piana brindisina; sull’attuale grado di qualità delle due falde; sulle interazioni prodotte tra i due corpi idrici dalle attività antropiche insistenti nell’area.Di qui la necessità di caratterizzare compiutamente gli aspetti geolitologici e stratigrafici della zona, quelli idrogeologici dei due acquiferi nonché definire le eventuali interazioni tra le acque delle due falde e valutare l’impatto prodotto dalle attività antropiche sulla risorsa idrica principale.

La Piana di Brindisi: fenomeni di interazione fra le falde idriche sotterranee presenti nell’area The Plane of Brindisi: interaction phenomena between groundwaters present in the area- / Michele, Spizzico; Nicola, Lopez; Donato, Sciannamblo; Tinelli, Roccaldo. - In: GIORNALE DI GEOLOGIA APPLICATA. - ISSN 1826-1256. - 3:(2006), pp. 17-24.

La Piana di Brindisi: fenomeni di interazione fra le falde idriche sotterranee presenti nell’area The Plane of Brindisi: interaction phenomena between groundwaters present in the area-

TINELLI, Roccaldo
2006-01-01

Abstract

The inland of Brindisi district (ITALY) is represented by a large subflat area where sea calcarenitic and sandy deposits, of Middle-Upper Pleistocenic age, outcrop. These terrains overlay a Calabrian clay layer, that overlaps Mesozoic calcareous-dolomitic rocks and Lower Pleistocenic calcarenites which represents lower terms of Bradanic Trough sedimentary cycle. In this area, two different hydrogeological environments are found: 1) the first is represented by “deep groundwater”, housed by the carbonatic aquifer which represents the main water resource for Apulian Region; 2) the second hydrogeological environment is represented by “surface groundwater”, which is housed by Middle-Upper Pleistocenic deposits and is separated from deep aquifer by a clay layer of variable thickness. An exploitation of two aquifers have complied with a larger request of water resources owing to a gradual anthropization. This situation have caused an increase of wells, which often have been carried out without considering the particular features of two aquifers. This paper represents a further contribute to knowledge of: 1) lithological, geological, structural and hydrogeological features of Brindisi Plane; 2) current quality degree of two groundwaters; 3) interactions between two hydrogeological environments caused by anthropic activities in the investigated area. In particular, a chemical characterization of two groundwaters have highlighted that there is an anthropic contamination of surface aquifer that is not reflected on deep aquifer. Some exceptions are pertinent to local situations, where the wrong realization of pumping-wells links two different hydrogeological environments causing the local contamination of deep aquifer.
2006
La Piana di Brindisi: fenomeni di interazione fra le falde idriche sotterranee presenti nell’area The Plane of Brindisi: interaction phenomena between groundwaters present in the area- / Michele, Spizzico; Nicola, Lopez; Donato, Sciannamblo; Tinelli, Roccaldo. - In: GIORNALE DI GEOLOGIA APPLICATA. - ISSN 1826-1256. - 3:(2006), pp. 17-24.
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