Environmental Remediation of the Brownfield Site

The aim of the remediation plan launched by the Government (CIPE Resolution 20.12.94) was to eliminate the environmental risk due to former industrial activity, and to recover the land to make it usable for a new and different use, in accordance with the new urban development plans of the Naples City Council. The project called for dismantling of plants and structures and subsequent removal of pollutants by means of appropriate actions of environmental recovery. 

The reclamation of the industrial area will prepare the Bagnoli area for the building of an urban park (included in the urban development plan for the city s eastern sector), which will represent a tangible sign of the environmental recovery of the area. The park will also preserve some structures as a memento of the industrial history of the area. 

The Naples City Council, in agreement with the Sovrintendenza ai Beni Culturali, will recover and preserve 16 structures to represent the former industrial activities (Industrial Archaeological Site), while the original CIPE plan would have preserved only few buildings (up to a volume of 192,000 m3) to be used for town business. The remediated areas will be the ILVA steel plant (1,945,000 m2, production stopped in 1991) and the Eternit concrete-asbestos factory (157,000 m2, production stopped in 1985) (Fig. 15.1). 

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