Atlas of Contaminated Sites
Contaminated sites in Italy and around the world, and the plants and fungi used to clean them up.
Key
- Site with a page; the colour is its main contaminant
- Plants · fungi tried here
- National list: listed · closed or removed
- Group of sites (underlined: one has a page); tap to zoom in
- Public registries: a wash where dense, up close a dot per row:
- confirmedsuspectedtanks, spillslandfills, minesotherfainter if closed
The atlas today
- 9national lists13,556 sites, in full, 3,456 of them still listed
- 1.2 millionregistry points1,200,092 rows from 186 open public registries in 34 countries
- 251written pagesHistory, health, remediation and sources; at 96 of them plants, fungi or microbes were tried
- 76plants and fungi41 plants and 35 fungi, what they do and their limits
- 106contaminantsBy class, each with its sites and the species studied
How much shows depends on how much each country publishes. Where the map is empty, it is usually the data that are missing, not the sites.What there is, country by country
Start here
The map
The globe with everything on it: the sites with a page, those on the national lists and the registry points. Search for a place or filter by contaminant.
Open the mapLists and sites
The national lists in full, from Italy's SINs to Superfund, and the well-known cases worldwide, with their history.
Browse the sitesPlants and fungi
The species studied for remediation: what they act on, where they were tried and how it went.
See the species
A few sites
SIN, Porto Torres, Sassari, Sardegna
Porto Torres industrial areas
- Petroleum hydrocarbons
- BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylenes)
- Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
- Chlorinated solvents (TCE, PCE, chloroform)
Microbial bioremediation
SIN, Colleferro, Anagni, Ceccano, Frosinone e altri 15 comuni (Roma, Frosinone), Lazio
Sacco River Valley
- Hexachlorocyclohexane (lindane)
- Pesticides (mixed)
- DDT and breakdown products
- Chlorinated solvents (TCE, PCE, chloroform)
Phytoremediation
SIN, Balangero e Corio (TO), Piemonte
Balangero asbestos mine
- Asbestos
PhytoremediationMycoremediation
SIN, Lombardia
Brescia-Caffaro
- Polychlorinated biphenyls
- Dioxins and furans
PhytoremediationMicrobial bioremediation
SIN, Torviscosa (Udine), Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Caffaro di Torviscosa (formerly Grado and Marano Lagoon)
Phytoremediation
SIN, Cengio (Savona), Liguria / Piemonte
Cengio and Saliceto (ACNA)
- Aromatic amines
- Chlorobenzenes
- Hexachlorobenzene
- Phenols and chlorophenols
PhytoremediationMycoremediationMicrobial bioremediation
