Pleasure Boatyard Soils are Often Highly Contaminated

Pleasure Boatyard Soils are Often Highly Contaminated

The contamination in pleasure boatyards has been investigated. Measured concentrations of copper, zinc, lead, mercury, cadmium, tributyltin (TBT), the 16 most common polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (∑16 PAHs), and the seven most common polychlorinated biphenyls (∑7 PCBs) from investigations at 34 boatyards along the Swedish coast have been compiled. The maximum concentrations were 7,700 for Cu...

Electromagnetic Waves in Contaminated Soils

Bioremediation of organic contaminated soils*

The term bioremediation covers a wide variety of engineered systems which utilize microorganisms to degrade, detoxify and immobilize organic contaminants. These systems include: l solid-phase treatment using unlined iand treatment systems or prepared bed bioreactors, l slurry-phase treatment systems completed either in-place or within tanks or impoundments, and l in situ treatment systems. Bior...

Creams used by hand eczema patients are often contaminated with Staphylococcus aureus.

Skin lesions, such as atopic dermatitis and eczema, are often colonized with high densities of microorganisms, especially Staphylococcus aureus (1–3). Severity and persistence of both atopic and hand eczema has been associated with S. aureus colonization (2, 4). Besides colonizing eczema S. aureus is also one of the most frequently found contaminants in cosmetic products (5–7), and cosmetics co...

Fungal inoculum properties: extracellular enzyme expression and pentachlorophenol removal in highly contaminated field soils.

This study was conducted to improve the pentachlorophenol (PCP) bioremediation ability of white-rot fungi in highly contaminated field soils by manipulating bioaugmentation variables. These were the dry weight percentage of fungal inoculum addition (31-175 g kg(-1)), PCP concentration (100-2137 mg kg(-1) PCP), fungal inoculum formulation, and time (1-7 wk). Five fungal isolates were used: the N...