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    Soil contamination, soil pollution, or land pollution as a part of land degradation is caused by the presence of xenobiotic (human-made) chemicals or other...
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    worse soil contamination and lead to the soil becoming unfit for its intended use. Both inorganic and organic pollutants may make their way to the soil, having...
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  • and sellers to consider soil contamination and its implications when property transfers occur. List of U.S. state soils USDA soil taxonomy List of Superfund...
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    pollution, litter, noise pollution, plastic pollution, soil contamination, radioactive contamination, thermal pollution, light pollution, and visual pollution...
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    caused by over usage, acidification, salinization or other chemical soil contamination. Slash-and-burn and other unsustainable methods of subsistence farming...
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  • water in the ground. A soil extraction system has been put at their disposal to remove harmful contamination within the soil as well. All wells in the...
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  • উললাহ) is a Bangladeshi-Austrian soil scientist and environmentalist, who primarily researches arsenic contamination in the air and water. The former...
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    Radioactive contamination, also called radiological pollution, is the deposition of, or presence of radioactive substances on surfaces or within solids...
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    groundwater, the main issue is contamination of drinking water, if the aquifer is abstracted for human use. Regarding soil contamination, runoff waters can have...
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  • cubic yards of deeper soils. The deeper soils were an active source of groundwater contamination on the HSR cite. The cleanup of soil and contaminated groundwater...
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    Bioremediation (category Soil contamination)
    the use of pesticides is a top factor in direct soil contamination and runoff water contamination. The limitation or remediation of pesticides is the...
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  • Toxic hotspot (category Soil contamination)
    into the groundwater. This severely contaminated the groundwater, affecting soil and contaminating water wells near the compressor station, with a plume approximately...
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    Xylene (category Soil contamination)
    In organic chemistry, xylene or xylol (from Greek ξύλον (xylon) 'wood'; IUPAC name: dimethylbenzene) are any of three organic compounds with the formula...
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    Phase I environmental site assessment (category Soil contamination)
    properties. Scrutiny of the land includes examination of potential soil contamination, groundwater quality, surface water quality, vapor intrusion, and...
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    Methyl tert-butyl ether (category Soil contamination)
    ethanol as a gasoline additive. MTBE removal from groundwater and soil contamination in the U.S. was estimated to cost from $1 billion to US$30 billion...
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    damage soil biota and limit soil function. Derelict soils occur where industrial contamination or other development activity damages the soil to such...
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    treat the contamination without removing the soils or groundwater. Various technologies have been developed for remediation of oil-contaminated soil/sediments...
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    Antwerp and the Ruhr is contributing to the effects of soil contamination in acid sandy soils. Agricultural areas have high concentrations of phosphates...
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    Brownfield land (category Soil contamination)
    located in urban areas] where past actions have caused environmental contamination, but which still have potential for redevelopment or other economic...
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  • marine ecosystems. Air pollution, climate change, litter, waste, and soil contamination are all a part of the human activity that create these environmental...
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  • GIS in environmental contamination is the use of GIS software in mapping out the contaminants in soil and water using the spatial interpolation tools from...
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  • representative of the level of contamination above which a serious case of soil contamination is deemed to exist. The target values for soil are adjusted for the...
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  • Machine drills etc. Soil contamination occurs when chemicals are released by spill or underground leakage. Among the most significant soil contaminants are...
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    Topsoil (redirect from Top soil)
    and physical contamination. The topsoil must be sampled in accordance with the British Standard and European Norm BS EN 12579:2013 Soil improvers and...
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  • 토양오염실태조사 결과 – 사전정보공표 – 사전정보공표 [Ministry of Environment Soil Monitoring Network and Soil Contamination Survey Result – Prior Information Announcement – Prior...
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    releases of toxic chemicals that have resulted in soil contamination and aquifer water contamination. Examples of these releases are: Beacon Service Station...
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    Solvent (category Soil contamination)
    reach the underlying soil. Since solvents readily migrate substantial distances, the creation of widespread soil contamination is not uncommon; this...
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    Zone rouge (category Soil contamination)
    unexploded shells (including many gas shells), grenades, and rusting ammunition. Soils were heavily polluted by lead, mercury, chlorine, arsenic, various dangerous...
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  • entered the habitat soil of an endangered species of amphibian. As a method to resolve or understand the extent of soil contamination and subsurface transport...
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  • Imprelis (category Soil contamination)
    Imprelis is a selective herbicide created by DuPont. The active ingredient is aminocyclopyrachlor, a synthetic auxin. Imprelis is a selective herbicide...
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