In the whole CORILA monitoring plan, SELC is directly involved in monitoring "indirect" parameters: parameters which, although of high environmental interest, not lend themselves to direct cause-effect relationships, because they can manifest stress after completion of construction activities or also for other reasons than to construction activities.

Monitoring activities are currently running and it consist in the continuation of the monitoring activities of previous years. There will be changes and updates to optimize the monitoring activities. It was also introduced monitoring of macrozoobenthos in order to better interpret the monitoring data of shallow water environments, where seagrasses and birdlife are already monitored.

Parameters monitored by SELC relate to:

a) Seagrass meadows: monitoring the general condition of seagrass meadows located in the three inlets of Venice. In each area is carried out a survey of the vegetation state (leaf tufts height, presence or absence of necrotic phenomena, epiphytic, germinal tufts) in order to detect impacts and to produce seagrass map;

b) Terrestrial vegetation: vegetation status monitoring through detailed reconnaissance of the band of interest (Punta Sabbioni, S. Nicolò, Alberoni, Ca' Roman). It also been added monitoring of the S. Felice area in the south dam of Chioggia. The aim is to produce detailed floristic lists for each area of investigation, to enable continuous monitoring for most critical and sensitive species;

c) Terrestrial Invertebrates (beetles): monitoring of terrestrial invertebrates in areas close to the shipyards on the three inlets, where it is feasible to observe the most significant interference;

d) Siphoning pools: monitoring of benthos at the Malamocco mouth;

e) Survey of macrozoobenthos at the inlets: two monitoring campaigns conducted preferably in late spring and early autumn, about 16 stations at the three inlets. The monitoring of macrozoobenthos was inserted to enable an integrated assessment of the state of ecosystems in shallow, comparing these new data with those already monitored in the past (plants and birds).