lead contaminated soil Articles
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Price Battery Plant Lead Contaminated Soil - Case Study
The Price Battery plant operated in the Borough of Hamburg, Berks County, Pa., from approximately 1940 to the mid-1990s. The site, about 1.2 square miles in size located in a mixed commercial/residential area in the former Price Battery facility. During operations, battery casings broke open and the lead plates are removed for smelting. The on-site battery plant lead smelter produced emissions ...
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Distribution patterns of lead accumulation in roadside soils: a case study from Erzurum, Turkey
Surface soils along roadsides or near to industrial areas may contain high concentrations of lead that adversely affect plant production. Lead contamination of roadside soils is generally attributed to the exhaust emissions of automobiles operating with leaded gasoline. The objectives of this study were to determine the relationships between lead accumulation in soils and the distance from the ...
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Lead contamination in soil and groundwater in and around a lead processing industry: a case study
Environmental pollution is of major concern across the world, which is affected by a variety of contaminants. Lead is one of the major heavy metals used in industrial activity. Unscientific handling and disposal of lead bearing residues or lead waste has led to contamination of the surrounding soil and water environment. A detailed investigation of soil and groundwater was carried out in and ...
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Lead Contamination in Soil Information
Lead Contamination in Soil Expertise For more than 30 years, TDJ has assisted in Lead Contamination in Soil, lead paint sandblasting, and metal casting (ferrous & nonferrous) industries in the stabilization of heavy metal contaminated wastes. Millions of tons of industrial waste have been safely stabilized using our chemistries, and more than 150,000,000 square feet of lead paint has been ...
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Biochar amendment to lead contaminated soil: Effects on the fluorescein diacetate hydrolytic activity and phytotoxicity to rice
The amendment effects of biochar on the total microbial activity was measured by FDA hydrolytic activity, and phytotoxicity in Pb(II) contaminated soils was examined by the application of four different biochars to soil, with rice as a test plant. The FDA hydrolytic activities of biochar‐amended soils were much higher than that of control. The survival rate of rice in lead‐contaminated ...
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Lead Soil Contamination
What is Lead Soil Contamination? The keys to successful stabilization of lead soil contamination are: using the right reagent, using the right dosage and achieving good mixing of the reagent with the waste. Lead soil contamination involves encapsulation and chemical conversion during remediation projects rendering them non-leachable to allow disposal of a non-hazardous ...
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Determination of adsorption efficiency based on cation exchange capacity related to red earth, bone meal and pulverised fly ash as ameliorants to lead contaminated soils
Efficient treatment strategies to reduce the toxicity of metal contaminated soil using cost effective techniques such as naturally available ameliorants and industrial waste have emerged. Three easily available amendments were determined: Bone meal, red earth/mud and pulverised fly ash (PFA). The application of ameliorants offered a possible alternative in situ remediation of contaminated sites ...
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Case Study: City of Torrance - Building 12
Ellis identified lead contamination on pavement and soils in the city maintenance yard adjacent to this multi-use recreational facility. The contaminant was traced to the buildings' former use as a military storage bunker. Working quickly, Ellis designed and managed the abatement and demolition of 2 buildings at the site, insuring that all lead-contaminated waste was properly contained, ...
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Distribution of chromium, cadmium, nickel and lead in agricultural soils collected from Kazanli-Mersin, Turkey
This study reports total levels of chromium, cadmium, nickel and lead in the agricultural land adjacent a factory producing chromate compounds in Kazanli-Mersin. Surface soil samples were collected from fields around the factory as well as from fields farther away to measure contamination due to aerial transportation and deposition of dust produced in the industrial process. Heavy metals in soil ...
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Biogas digesters for Cambodians: A multi-partner national biodigester program in Cambodia
Water and sanitation are one of the most pressing issues facing people in rural Cambodia. Of particular difficulty for sanitation advocates in Cambodia is the old habit of open defecation, with the result of exposing human excreta to the environment. This leads to water and soil contamination and to widespread disease outbreaks. The UN estimated that, in 2008, only 23% of ...
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Biogas digesters for Vietnamese: a multi-partner national Biodigester program in Vietnam
Water and sanitation are one of the most pressing issues facing people in rural Vietnam. Of particular difficulty for sanitation advocates in Vietnam is the habit of using raw feces to fertilize rice fields, with the result of exposing human excreta to the environment. This leads to water and soil contamination and to widespread disease outbreaks. The UN estimated that, in 2010, only 18% of rural ...
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Heavy Metals in Soil: Treat with Blastox
What are Heavy Metals in Soil? The EPA requires a Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure (TCLP) test to determine if the heavy metals in soil needs to be managed as hazardous or non-hazardous waste. Soils exhibiting hazardous characteristics need to be disposed of at a facility permitted for that material at a high cost. Soils treated in the field prior to off-site disposal can be rendered ...
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Tonle sap rural water supply and sanitation sector project: An ADB-funded Latrine-Building Project in Cambodia
Water and sanitation are one of the most pressing issues facing people in rural Cambodia, especially around the Tonle Sap Lake and river basin. Of particular difficulty for sanitation advocates in Cambodia is the old habit of open defecation, with the result of exposing human excreta to the environment. This leads to water and soil contamination and to ...
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Phytoremediation - I
Introduction Phytoremediation is a process that uses plants to remove, transfer, stabilize, and destroy contaminants in soil and sediment. The mechanisms of phytoremediation include enhanced rhizosphere biodegradation, phyto-extraction (also called phyto-accumulation), phyto-degradation, and phyto-stabilization. Enhanced Rhizosphere Biodegradation Enhanced rhizosphere biodegradation takes ...
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Dry Cleaner Bioremediation and Brownfield Redevelopment
Site Description Dry cleaning solvent spills in a storage area lead to the contamination of soil and ground water on the property of a 50-year-old dry cleaners in the middle of a hot brownfield redevelopment. After the contaminated soil was excavated for off site disposal to the most practical extent, residual perched ground water contamination impacted the redevelopment of the property. The ...
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Superfund Investigates Land Pollution from the Past…and Present
On September 7, 2016, we took steps to respond to states, tribes and citizens who asked for our help addressing contaminated sites. In response, we are adding 10 hazardous waste sites to the National Priorities List (NPL). The NPL is our list of more than 1,300 of the most contaminated sites in the country that we are addressing under the Superfund program. Superfund is one of the most important ...
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Effect of old mining activities on nutrient and toxic elements concentration in the biomass of Norway spruce (Picea abies L. Karst.) and European Birch (Betula pendula L.)
Metal mining activities often lead to plant and soil contamination in the surrounding environment. This article characterises the contaminated site and the effects of acidification and heavy metal pollution on two plant species: European birch and Norway spruce. The research was conducted in the surroundings of a former polymetalic mine near the town of Zlate Hory, Czech Republic. A by-product of ...
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Metals Treatment Technologies
What are Metals Treatment Technologies? TDJ’s metals treatment technologies work with lead paint stabilization, soil stabilization and foundry applications. With the modern day progressing in hazardous waste treatment, we are constantly trying to find new ways to innovate and eliminate such problems. With the occurrence of recent lead stabilization issues, TDJ Group uses a chemically ...
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Heavy metal speciation and mobility assessment of arid soils in the vicinity of Al Ain landfill, United Arab Emirates
Sixty-four surface soil samples taken in the vicinity of Al Ain landfill were analysed for cadmium, chromium, copper, nickel, lead and zinc by inductively coupled plasma spectroscopy. Extraction techniques were used to establish the association of the total concentrations of the six metals in the soil samples with their contents in the exchangeable, carbonate, iron/manganese oxides, and residual ...
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Determination of heavy metals in roadside soil from Sapanca Area Highway, Turkey
This paper describes the determination of lead and nickel in soil samples from Kinali-Sakarya highway side, near Lake Sapanca. Lake Sapanca is the drinking water source for Sakarya city and its environment. This highway runs between Ankara and Istanbul and carries a heavy traffic volume. Soil samples were taken from different distances from the highway once every two months for a year. Three ...
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