Editorial: Soil pollution, risk assessment and remediation

Soil Contamination, Risk Assessment and Remediation

Risk-based assessment of soil and groundwater quality in The Netherlands: standards and remediation urgency.

To assess soil and groundwater quality two generic (i.e. multifunctional) risk-based standards, Target and Intervention Value, have been developed, in the framework of the Dutch Soil Protection Act. These standards allow soil and groundwater to be classified as clean, slightly contaminated or seriously contaminated. The Target Value is based on potential risks to ecosystems, while the Intervent...

Assessment of Groundwater Pollution Risk

Q.5-How do I assess the risk of groundwater quality problems arising from pollution of urban aquifers? Written specifically for this Web-site by Brian Morris and Stephen Foster, drawing extensively from Foster and Hirata 1988, Morris and Foster 2000 (see references) and unpublished material.

Editorial: Lead Risk Assessment and Health Effects

In 1980, Clair C. Patterson stated: "Sometime in the near future it probably will be shown that the older urban areas of the United States have been rendered more or less uninhabitable by the millions of tons of poisonous industrial lead residues that have accumulated in cities during the past century". We live in the near future about which this quote expressed concern. This special volume of ...

Potential ecological risk assessment and prediction of soil heavy-metal pollution around coal gangue dump

The aim of the present study is to evaluate the potential ecological risk and trend of soil heavymetal pollution around a coal gangue dump in Jilin Province (Northeast China). The concentrations of Cd, Pb, Cu, Cr and Zn were monitored by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). The potential ecological risk index method developed by Hakanson (1980) was employed to assess the poten...