Air Pollution and Air Quality State in an Italian National Interest Priority Site. Part 2: The Pollutant Dispersion

Abstract In Campania region, southern Italy, a National Interest Priority Sites (NIPS) was identified: “Litorale Domitio-Agro Aversano” NIPS L.426/98, that includes a large part of the polluted agricultural land, belonging to more than 61 municipalities in the Naples and Caserta provinces. This second paper represents an analysis developed for a LIFE project (LIFE11/ENV/IT/275–ECOREMED): “Implementation of Eco-Compatible Protocols for Agricultural Soil Remediation in Litorale Domizio-Agro Aversano NIPS”. The contribution of this second paper to the above-mentioned LIFE project consists in the appraisal of the air quality state in this NIPS area, estimating the pollutant concentrations of the main air pollutants (CO, VOC, NO X and PM 10 ) in the area under investigation due to the principal industrial systems (namely punctual sources) and to the main diffused sources. All entropic activities which determine emissions in the atmosphere, in fact, depending on the distance from the areas under examination, could contribute to the soil qualification. The assessment of the air quality to local scale was carried by integrating the data of emission inventory in the NIPS area, that was estimated and reported in the first paper (Part 1), with elaborations of a Gaussian dispersion model.