Enviromental Land Remediation [Mar 2010]
Identifying and treating contaminated land and groundwater.
The industrial legacy of the United Kingdom and some current industrial activity has left large areas of land contaminated in the UK and the contamination which has been introduced into the soil poses a risk to the wider environment, human health and natural resources such as groundwater. A very large proportion of our drinking water is pumped form aquifers beneath our feet and this water can be rendered unfit for consumption by trace quantities of some contaminants, some of these contaminants, such a chlorinated hydrocarbons can originate from apparently innocuous places as dry cleaning businesses. Other facilities such as petrol filling stations can leak contaminants into the ground for many years unnoticed.
Other articles you will find in the same issue include:
Biological Treatment of Produced Water
Enviromental Lab Testing
More or Less Air Quality - Monitoring Air Quality at the Personal Scale
Soil Analysis - Determination of different carbon species in soil by high temperature combustion
Spectroscopy in Space
Wind Measurement
As well as information about the following new Regulations
