Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Italian term or phrase:
corpi ricettori superficiali
English translation:
receiving surface water bodies
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Heather Phillips
Jan 20, 2009 11:15
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Italian term
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corpi ricettori superficiali
Italian to English
Science
Environment & Ecology
description of a waste treatment facility
This section relates to avoiding contamination of ground water, soil, etc. "La movimentazione e lo stoccaggio delle apparecchiature e dei rifiuti da esse derivanti deve avvenire in modo che sia evitata ogni contaminazione del suolo e dei corpi ricettori superficiali e profondi." Apparently "recettori" and "ricettori" are both correct. Please can somebody tell me what these "corpi ricettori" are? Many thanks.
Proposed translations
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| 4 | receiving surface water bodies |
Peter Shortall
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| 4 | surface receptor bodies |
Tom in London
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Jan 26, 2009 16:24: Peter Shortall changed "Field" from "Tech/Engineering" to "Science" , "Field (specific)" from "Engineering: Industrial" to "Environment & Ecology"
Proposed translations
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Peter Shortall
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United Kingdom
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United Kingdom
Legal / Business / Government
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receiving surface water bodies
A similar term came up the other day - see http://www.proz.com/kudoz/italian_to_english/environment_eco...
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Note added at 3 mins (2009-01-20 11:18:56 GMT)
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...highlighting the value of major-ion hydrochemical data in conceptualising the presence and behaviour of distinct bodies of ground water within the vicinity of quarried voids, allowing unequivocal identification of those processes of mixing which are due to the extractive process itself, and also supporting mass-balance evaluations of the effects of quarry effluents on **receiving surface water bodies**
http://www.ceg.ncl.ac.uk/research/hero/Research/Specific Pro...
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Note added at 5 days (2009-01-26 11:00:16 GMT)
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Just to explain more fully: "corpi" refers here to "corpi idrici" (bodies of water), and if they're bodies of surface water (superficiali) then they would probably be lakes/rivers (or possibly even the sea), as opposed to groundwater such as water contained within aquifers or wells (presumably these are what "profondi" refers to):
"La ricerca attuale si sta concentrando su giacimenti esauriti di idrocarburi e sugli **acquiferi salini (corpi idrici profondi** di enorme capacità di assorbimento per la CO2)..."
http://www.rinnovabili.it/co2-la-soluzione-e-nel-geosequestr...
"Receiving" means that something is flowing into them, probably waste water etc. coming from the waste treatment facility, and the point they're making is that whatever effluents are being pumped out mustn't become contaminated with any substances that would pollute the soil or bodies of groundwater/surface water into which they flow (hence "receiving surface-water bodies", only here you'd have to change the word order to accommodate "profondi": "receiving surface-water and groundwater bodies").
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Note added at 3 mins (2009-01-20 11:18:56 GMT)
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...highlighting the value of major-ion hydrochemical data in conceptualising the presence and behaviour of distinct bodies of ground water within the vicinity of quarried voids, allowing unequivocal identification of those processes of mixing which are due to the extractive process itself, and also supporting mass-balance evaluations of the effects of quarry effluents on **receiving surface water bodies**
http://www.ceg.ncl.ac.uk/research/hero/Research/Specific Pro...
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Note added at 5 days (2009-01-26 11:00:16 GMT)
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Just to explain more fully: "corpi" refers here to "corpi idrici" (bodies of water), and if they're bodies of surface water (superficiali) then they would probably be lakes/rivers (or possibly even the sea), as opposed to groundwater such as water contained within aquifers or wells (presumably these are what "profondi" refers to):
"La ricerca attuale si sta concentrando su giacimenti esauriti di idrocarburi e sugli **acquiferi salini (corpi idrici profondi** di enorme capacità di assorbimento per la CO2)..."
http://www.rinnovabili.it/co2-la-soluzione-e-nel-geosequestr...
"Receiving" means that something is flowing into them, probably waste water etc. coming from the waste treatment facility, and the point they're making is that whatever effluents are being pumped out mustn't become contaminated with any substances that would pollute the soil or bodies of groundwater/surface water into which they flow (hence "receiving surface-water bodies", only here you'd have to change the word order to accommodate "profondi": "receiving surface-water and groundwater bodies").
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Tom in London
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United Kingdom
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surface receptor bodies
part of the chemical waste treatment process
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