Soil & Groundwater E-Zine
May 2008

This Month´s Featured Articles, Papers & Reports
Researchers discover high uranium levels in south India groundwater
The uranium isotopes during their course of their disintegration decay into other radioactive elements and eventually decay into stable lead isotopes. The cause of environmental concern is the emanation of beta and gamma radiation during disintegration. The present study tends to estimate uranium in groundwater trapped in granite and gneiss rocks. Besides, the study aims at estimating the radiation during natural disintegration process. The water samples were collected and analyzed following inductively ...
UK strategy to develop skills for brownfields regeneration
The launch of this national Brownfield Skills Strategy for public consultation follows the submission by English Partnerships to Government in May 2007 of policy recommendations designed to bring thousands of hectares of blighted land back into beneficial use. These recommendations were the result of three years of extensive research and consultation surrounding the barriers that prevent or hinder the reuse of brownfield land and included an accreditation and skills strand.  ASC has worked ...
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