Remediation technologies

Technical Procedures

As part of its support to the Ministry of the Environment, Land and Sea for the Sites of National Interest (SIN), ISPRA has developed, sometimes in cooperation with the National Institute of Health (ISS), procedures for the application of some site remediation techniques. These procedures, even though prepared for a specific SIN, are taken as a reference for projects presented in other Sites of National Interest.

Screening matrix for the selection of remediation technologies

Within its institutional activities, ISPRA has created a screening matrix as a decision support tool for the selection of remediation technologies.
The matrix is not intended as a definitive state of art, since the experimentation of new technologies or technical progress on consolidated technologies may lead to its revision; it has been therefore designed as a tool continuously updated.
The matrix contains 25 in situ and ex situ technologies for soil and 16 in situ ed ex situ for groundwater remediation, evaluated in terms of remediation times, need for long-term monitoring, limitations and feasibility and, where available, case studies.
The remediation technologies screening matrix developed by the Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable has been used as a model with the addition of some relevant contaminants in the national regulation.

Related documents

Removal of APAT Notes entitled "Protocollo per l'applicazione dell'ossidazione chimica in situ" and "Applicazione di tecnologie in situ per la bonifica delle acque sotterranee mediante l'iniezione di composti e reagenti chimici".

Please note that the APAT Note prot. n. 28220 of 20/07/2005 and prot. n. 33360 of 09/09/2005 have been removed from the ISPRA website, in consideration of the fact that they are prior to numerous environmental regulations concerning the assessment and management of groundwater pollution and in particular they do not take into account the provisions of Legislative Decree 152/06 and ss.mm.ii.
This decision was shared with the National Institute of Health (ISS).
Any updates to the notes will be evaluated within the Working Groups of the National System for Environmental Protection (SNPA), which deal specifically with issues relating to contaminated sites.

Last update: March 2020