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New Insights on Monitoring and Discharge of PFW from Offshore Gas Platforms in the Adriatic Sea
Such an integrated monitoring approach provides environmental data considered to be one of the first steps in the design of any monitoring
that are particularly useful for public administrations and decision- programme of PFW discharge.
makers to protect the marine ecosystem. For example, as far as
operational discharge practices are concerned, a good option is The application of this kind of monitoring may yield a more complete
represented by releasing higher volumes of PFW during the winter analysis of the space and time-scales of PFW impact. Consequently, an
period, when in the area concerned the water column stratification is integrated approach becomes essential to support decisions in the
low and high mean velocity currents are recorded. This practice should assessment of the risk caused by the organism’s exposure to PFW
promote the rapid dilution of the effluent, mitigating the impacts of discharges and should be available and commonly used by consultants,
the PFW discharge on marine organisms. administrations and decision-makers. ■
In the last few decades, growing interest in environmental concerns Acknowledgements
and marine ecosystem conservation has led to the establishment of a The authors acknowledge AM Cicero for constructive comments and
‘prevention-first’ policy. For this reason, in the context of cost- the Department of Environmental Sciences of the ‘Parthenope’
effective management of the marine environment the integration University of Naples and ISPRA, which co-operated in the research on
between field observations and numerical modelling should be PFWs in the framework of a reciprocal agreement.
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