A week of automated continuous measurements of temperature, pH and specific conductance in a mining-polluted river in Sardinia (Italy): The effect of rainfall as a case of serendipity
Abstract
Abstract This study is an example of serendipity applied to hydrogeochemistry. Starting with the aim of continuously measuring for one week some parameters (temperature, pH and specific conductance) at two different sampling points along a river heavily contaminated by past mining activity, due to the occurrence of an undesirable climatic change consisting of heavy rainfall distributed over the week of measurements, unexpected hydrogeochemical data were collected that required a different processing and interpretation approach from the standardized one that was thought to apply when the above study was conceived for stable climatic conditions.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Mineralogia
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Volume
- 57
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 36–47
- Publication date
- 1 January 2026
- Language
- EN