Contamination
of domestic gardens and allotments
This special issue
of the journal Land Contamination & Reclamation, edited by Brian Alloway,
features contamination of domestic gardens and allotments in several countries,
including identification of contamination, procedures for assessing risks to
public health, and local authorities’ experiences of working with this
type of site.
The contents include:
- An overview
of the main sources of heavy metals, organic pollutants, asbestos and pathogens
which contaminate garden and allotment soils
- Metal content
of surface soils in parks and allotments in three European cities
- Four papers
on the assessment of risks to adults and children ingesting soil:
- a study
of potential risk from cadmium, using the Lakanen-Ervio bioavailability
factor, in urban soils;
- cadmium,
lead and zinc in garden soils and the use of a sequential extraction procedure
to assess the more readily available fractions;
- the risk
to the local population from mercury contamination from a chlor-alkali
plant; and
- a site-specific
risk assessment of elevated arsenic concentrations in allotments, with
consideration of physiologically-based extraction tests and soil–plant
concentration factors
- Monitoring of
allotment soils for dioxins and furans
- Two papers focus
on the experiences of local authorities:
- risk assessment
of contamination in residential gardens, householders’ perception
of risk and problems in carrying out remediation are covered in a paper
describing work in Sheffield; and
- the experience
of Portsmouth City Council in removing large volumes of bituminous material
and hydrocarbon-contaminated soil from gardens while the residents remained
in situ is the subject of the last paper.
The edition also
includes the usual Clean-up & Regeneration Bulletin and a report on the
recent NICOLE meeting at Runcorn.
Price £35.00
incl p&p. Published as vol. 12: part 3 of Land Contamination & Reclamation.
If you are a 2004 subscriber to the journal, you will already have it.
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