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	Soil & Groundwater Newsletter February 19, 2009

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New software to standardise risk assessment of pesticide pollution
Researchers have developed a computer tool to help standardise risk assessment procedures for pesticides across Europe. The software combines climate, soil and crops data specific to each location to help understand the potential impact of each pesticide used. Pesticides used in farming can contaminate surface and ground waters through a number of means: runoff, infiltration and leaching, for example, and can have a range of impacts depending on how they are dispersed. Extensive and harmonised data are needed to develop appropriate policies which can avoid some of the effects of pesticide contamination. ...

EPA, DOJ reach US$1.6m settlement on Ohio superfund cleanup
US Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 and US Department of Justice announce a US$1,609,732 settlement with Livingston and Co., Inc., a business responsible for contributing hazardous waste to the United Scrap Lead Superfund site near Troy, Ohio. As part of the same settlement, Livingston will also pay US$290,268 to a larger `respondent group` of other responsible parties that performed cleanup work at the site. The consent decree was entered with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio in Dayton. Government agencies and the respondent group have spent nearly US$19 million ...

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Will large amounts of soil carbon be released to the atmosphere if grasslands are converted to energy crops?
Grasslands in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) in the United States may be increasingly converted to growing bioenergy grain crops. Questions abound ...
New practical workshops to help UK farmers prevent nitrate pollution
Nitrate Vulnerable Zone (NVZ) workshops and farm walks that provide hands-on help for farmers and land managers are now taking bookings across the East ...
Bioremediation to keep atrazine from waterways
“When we added the enzyme to a holding dam filled with run-off contaminated with atrazine, more than 90 per cent of it was removed in less than four hours,” ...
Less nitrogen could increase profit & sustainability
More fertilizer doesn`t always mean more profit. That`s one conclusion from a 10-year study conducted by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists ...
Climate change enhances grassland productivity
More frequent freeze-thaw cycles in winter can increase biomass production according to the results of a recent study conducted by the Helmholtz Center ...
Isotopes used to trace origins of water pollution in Danube River
The Danube shows signs of improving water quality and still contains significant natural populations of flora and fauna which are typical for such a large ...
Preventing rangeland erosion: Developing better management practices in Iran
The rangelands of Iran have one of the world’s longest history of agriculture development, with a deep tradition of technological developments and knowledge ...

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