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  • Margherita Bufalini 1,
  • Domenico Aringoli 1 and
  • Gilberto Pambianchi 1
  • et al.

Reviewer 1: Mohd Remy Rozainy Mohd Arif Zainol Reviewer 2: Anonymous Reviewer 3: Anonymous

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

1. Finding with value need to include in abstract

2. Why only 6 wastewater treatment plant been chosen please explain in details?

3. Points of 12 water samples taken upstream and downstream need to be shown in Figure. Do wet and dry season been considered during water sampling

4. Remove Fig. 6

5. Change format of lines 87 - 96

6. Improve lines 202 - 208 change to sentences

7. Overall references used are not up to date.

8. Make a full sentences for lines 365 - 372

9. The discussion section does not critically explain. The values from the result have not been strongly justified the finding of the paper

Author Response

Responses to the reviewer's comments are included in the attached pdf file

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 2 Report

The text presented has interesting results and can be published as presented.

Author Response

No request from the reviewer.

Thank you for the positive judgement

Reviewer 3 Report

The authors present an interesting and important study on the controlling fluvial erosion processes on clayey bedrock and role of waste water. The study includes details investigation of the six sites central Italy, which delt with many aspects of study area. However, there are still minor issues that should be resolved before the manuscript can be accepted.

1.      Introduction section should improve with various case studies and good references.

2.      The mineralogical analysis can be improved with the previous research’s

3.      Geotechnical Analyses of soil samples collected from the study areas should be incorporated in the tabular form.

4.      Improve the quality of Figure 7

 

  1. Improve the conclusions with all the findings from the manuscript.
  2. In the conclusions, authors should explain the importance of the study, its future scope, and its contribution to the national and international research community.

 

Author Response

Responses to the reviewer's comments are included in the attached pdf file

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

The authors already answered all the issues that been raise up