Land Use of Po Valley

RIVERS’ CONTAMINATION AND POLLUTED INDUSTRIAL SITES

Data: Geofabrik.de, 2018. ARPA Lombardia, 2018. ARPAE Emilia Romagna, 2018.

River contamination is based on the analysis of data collected from ARPA and regional resources. They are average resultant from point measurements on the stations alongside rivers. They cannot be considered as precise, also due to the nature of water flow variability. The whole state of Po is rather average. In some places high density of contaminated sites are close to the worst condition of the water system, but surprisingly water pollution cannot be always connected to location of site contamination. Although, presence of industrial sites and amount of them definitely impact state of the river and tributaries. Some of the tributaries, like Lambro river, are highly polluted due to the cause situated outside of the examined area.

Industrial Sites Contaminated Industrial Sites Water State: Good Water State: Sufficient Water State: Bad Water State: Very Bad

INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS

Data: Geofabrik.de, 2018. ARPA Lombardia, 2018. ARPAE Emilia Romagna, 2018. Authors’ work based on Google Maps.

Based on the research prevailing types of industries were established. The main industrial districts are connected to water system and also cluster around urban settlement. Food processing, automotive, metallurgy and chemical manufacturers seems to be the most dominating ones. What is more, food processing and automotive industries overlap with highest river contamination readings. Some of the chemical and metallurgy processes seem to be also connected to water pollution issue. The same branches of manufacturing collide with ground contamination of the sites.

Food Processing Automotive Textiles, Clothing, Shoemaking Ceramics Chemical Biomedical Horticultural Wood Leather Production Metal-mechanical Logistics