Contaminated Soils, Sediments and Water Volume 10 - Successes and Challenges

Hardcover  XXVI, 508 p. 175 illus  ISBN 0387283226      £80.50

This volume contains articles from the 20th Annual International Conference on Soils, Sediments and Water. Primarily a technical conference, each year the platform sessions, poster presentations, and workshops represent the leading edge in environmental science and technology. The meeting promotes a collaboarative approach between scientists, engineers, environmental consultants, industry, and regulators dealing with environmental contamination.

This yearly conference began 21 years ago to inform the environmental remediation efforts of the DEP and the EPA. What started as a group of Academics providing informal assistance to the EPA is now an international conference that presents current research with the support of a high level scientific advisory board. The conference follows trends and adapts the conference agenda accordingly. The largest ever attendance at the 2004 meeting was at nearly 1000 due to the caliber of the researchers and engineers presenting at the conference. Content is especially relevant to environmental remediation professionals for acquiring current knowledge and technologies that can be immediately applied in the field.

Written for environmental engineers, ecological engineers, regulatory mangers, industrial waste managers, environmental scientists including soil microbiologists, geochemists, soil scientists, wetland ecologists

Contents

• Foreword.
• Contributing authors.
• Acknowledgments
• About the editors.
• Part I Environmental Fate: Slow Desorption of Phenanthrene from Silica Particles: Influence of Pore Size, Pore water, and Aging Time.
• Part II Heavy Metals: Understanding the Causes of and the Permanent Solutions for Groundwater Arsenic Poisoning in Bangladesh.- Evaluation of Heavy Metal Availability in the Mining Areas of Bulgaria.- Average Particle Size Ratios and Chemical Speciation of Copper and Zinc in Road-Dust Samples.
• Part III Modeling: Contaminant Fate and Transport in the Courtroom.- A New Method of Delineating Three-Dimensional Capture Zones with Models.- Comparing Air Measurements and Air Modeling at a Residential Site Overlying a TCE Groundwater Plume.- Development and Application of a Multimedia Model to Assess Fate and Transport of Organic Chemicals in a South Texas Lake.
• Part IV: MTBE and Oxygenates: The MTBE Removal Effectiveness of Air Sparging, Tested on an Intermediate Scale Laboratory Apparatus.- Maine's Experiment with Gasoline Policy to Manage MTBE in Groundwater.
• Part V Radionuclides: Development of Radon Enrichment in Soil Gas Over Quartz-Mica Schist in Virginia.- Influence of Home Size on the Risk from Soil-Gas and Waterborne Indoor Radon.
• Part VI Regulatory: How Interstate Collaboration can Improve Site Cleanups: Triad and the ITRC.
• Part VII Remediation: Organoclay/Carbon Systems at Military Installations.- Remediation of Petroleum-Containing Soil and Groundwater at a Former Rail Yard Locomotive Fueling Area.- Phyto-Extraction of Field-Weathered DDE by Subspecies of Cucurbita and Exudation of Citric Acid from Roots. - Phytoremediation of Lead-Contaminated Soil in the Urban Residential Environment using Seed Mustard.- CVOC Source Identification through in situ Chemical Oxidation in Fractured Bedrock.- ISCO Technology Overview: Do You Really Understand the Chemistry?- Brownfield Site Assessment and Remediation.- Treatment of PCP-Contaminated Soil using an Engineered ex situ Biopile Process on a Former Wood Treatment Superfund Site.
• Part VIII Risk Assessment and Remedial Approaches towards Restoration and Management of Contaminated Rivers: Exploring Innovative and Cost-Effective Solutions to Contaminated Sediments to Achieve Ecological Restoration of the Lower Neponset River.- Restoring an Urban River.- A Framework for River Cleanup Decision Making.- Neponset River Workshop.- Options for the Neponset.- Sorbent-Amended "Active" Sediment Caps for In-Place Management of PCP-Contaminated Sediments.- River Restoration: A View from Wisconsin.- Characterization of Contaminated Sediments for Remediation Projects in Hamilton Harbour.
• Part IX Site Assessment: Evaluation of Solvent Plume Discharge to a Wetland Stream using an Innovative Passive Diffusion Sampling Methodology.- A Preliminary Environmental Site Investigation for a Bridge over the Mississippi River at Moline, Illinois.- Targeted Brownfields Assessment of a Former Power Plant using the Triad Approach.- Case Study of TCE Attenuation from Groundwater to Indoor Air and the Effects of Ventilation on Entry Routes.
• Index.