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Table 1. Overview of some of the most important natural and man made events affecting the hydrology of the unconfined coastal
aquifer, Emilia-Romagna, Italy .
EVENT BEGINNING END NOTES AND REFERENCES
Planting first pine forests Augustus period By Romans for wood for shipbuilding
Cervia salt mine formation 6 th century AD 9 th century AD Etruscan salt mine still operating today
Planting pine forests (such as historical
Cervia, Classe and San Vitale pine
forests still existing)
Coastal dune formation
10 th -15 th centuries AD 19 th century AD (when
their destruction started)
Planted by monastic communities on fossil dunes
Fossil dunes on old
coastlines: 10 th -18 th
centuries AD
Dunes closest to shore:19 th
century AD
Piallassa Baiona lagoon formation 17 th century AD 19 th century AD Formed by an increase in sediment supply (17 th -18 th
Land reclamation, drainage system
Works along the rivers Reno and
Lamone
Water extraction directly along shore
and in dune for tourist establishments
19 th - 20 th centuries AD
(In 1839 Lamone flooding
marked the beginning of
land reclamation for the
study area)
centuries AD) that formed a new peninsula closing off
part of the sea and by artificial interventions related to
construction of the port of Ravenna (Bondesan, 1990)
1960-1970 Men broke the dikes and let the river deposit its
sediments on the land to counteract the natural
subsidence
The mechanical drainage continues in order to keep
agricultural areas dry.
1830 1968 These works caused strong reduction in sediment
transport and as a result changing coastlines between the
months of these rivers and in area Vene Ancona-
Bellocchio (Bondesan et al., 1978, 1995(b); Simeoni et
al., 2002)
1930 in Rimini
After 1950 in Marina
Romea
On going
Many illegal wells still exist although most tourist
establishments should be connected to regional drinking
water system.