Download or read book Revival Lead in Soil 1993 written by Bobby G. Wixson and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the publication of this new book there had been a lack of well-founded guidelines for evaluating concentrations of lead in soil and its relationship to human health. Thus, much confusion has existed among regulatory agencies, industries, public health officials, and the medical community about the evaluation and remedying of lead-contaminated soils. Lead in Soil: Recommended Guidelines represents the combined efforts of a multi-disciplinary international task force from the Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health (SEGH) whose members are experts in the fields of lead pollution and toxicology. It provides an international consensus concerning environmental lead and blood lead-especially in children. The task force evaluated the evidence and made recommendations for guidelines to appraise lead concentration. It also studied the influence of soil and other sources of lead on blood lead concentrations. A model was prepared that allows the user to select appropriate target levels of blood lead while allowing for a variety of environmental situations or regulatory criteria.
Download or read book Lead in Soil written by Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the publication of this new book there had been a lack of well-founded guidelines for evaluating concentrations of lead in soil and its relationship to human health. Thus, much confusion has existed among regulatory agencies, industries, public health officials, and the medical community about the evaluation and remedying of lead-contaminated soils. Lead in Soil: Recommended Guidelines represents the combined efforts of a multi-disciplinary international task force from the Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health (SEGH) whose members are experts in the fields of lead pollution and toxicology. It provides an international consensus concerning environmental lead and blood lead-especially in children. The task force evaluated the evidence and made recommendations for guidelines to appraise lead concentration. It also studied the influence of soil and other sources of lead on blood lead concentrations. A model was prepared that allows the user to select appropriate target levels of blood lead while allowing for a variety of environmental situations or regulatory criteria.
Download or read book Providing Solutions for a Better Tomorrow written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lead in Soil written by Brian E. Davies and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Investigative Strategies for Lead Source Attribution at Superfund Sites Associated with Mining Activities written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Superfund program of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was created in the 1980s to address human-health and environmental risks posed by abandoned or uncontrolled hazardous-waste sites. Identification of Superfund sites and their remediation is an expensive multistep process. As part of this process, EPA attempts to identify parties that are responsible for the contamination and thus financially responsible for remediation. Identification of potentially responsible parties is complicated because Superfund sites can have a long history of use and involve contaminants that can have many sources. Such is often the case for mining sites that involve metal contamination; metals occur naturally in the environment, they can be contaminants in the wastes generated at or released from the sites, and they can be used in consumer products, which can degrade and release the metals back to the environment. This report examines the extent to which various sources contribute to environmental lead contamination at Superfund sites that are near lead-mining areas and focuses on sources that contribute to lead contamination at sites near the Southeast Missouri Lead Mining District. It recommends potential improvements in approaches used for assessing sources of lead contamination at or near Superfund sites.
Download or read book Lead Toxicity written by Sarah E. Royce and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Protect Your Family from Lead in Your Home written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Green Technologies and Infrastructure to Enhance Urban Ecosystem Services written by Viacheslav Vasenev and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These proceedings of the Smart and Sustainable Cities Conference (SSC) in Moscow from May 23 to 26, 2018 addresses important questions regarding the global trend of urbanization. What are the environmental consequences of megacities’ expansion? What smart solutions can make life in cities safe, comfortable and environmentally friendly? It is projected that 70% of the global population will live in cities by 2050, and as such the book describes how this rapid urbanization will alter the face of the world. Focusing on solutions for the environmental problems of modern megapolises, it discusses advanced approaches and smart technologies to monitor, model and assess the environmental consequences and risks. The contributors present examples of successful sustainable urban development, including management and design of green infrastructure, waste management, run-off purification and remediation of urban soils. The SSC conference and its proceedings offer a valuable contribution to sustainable urban development, and are of interest to the scientific and research community, municipal services, environmental protection agencies, landscape architects, civil engineers, policy makers and other stakeholders in urban management and greenery.
Download or read book Guidelines for the Evaluation and Control of Lead based Paint Hazards in Housing written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spatial Modeling and Assessment of Environmental Contaminants written by Pravat Kumar Shit and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-05 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates the measurement, monitoring and mapping of environmental contaminants in soil & sediment, surface & groundwater and atmosphere. This book explores state-of-art techniques based on methodological and modeling in modern geospatial techniques specifically focusing on the recent trends in data mining techniques and robust modeling. It also presents modifications of and improvements to existing control technologies for remediation of environmental contaminants. In addition, it includes three separate sections on contaminants, risk assessment and remediation of different existing and emerging pollutants. It covers major topics such as: Radioactive Wastes, Solid and Hazardous Wastes, Heavy Metal Contaminants, Arsenic Contaminants, Microplastic Pollution, Microbiology of Soil and Sediments, Soil Salinity and Sodicity, Aquatic Ecotoxicity Assessment, Fluoride Contamination, Hydrochemistry, Geochemistry, Indoor Pollution and Human Health aspects. The content of this book will be of interest to researchers, professionals, and policymakers whose work involves environmental contaminants and related solutions.
Download or read book Determination of Lead in Soil written by University of Minnesota. Department of Soil Science and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Soil pollution a hidden reality written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document presents key messages and the state-of-the-art of soil pollution, its implications on food safety and human health. It aims to set the basis for further discussion during the forthcoming Global Symposium on Soil Pollution (GSOP18), to be held at FAO HQ from May 2nd to 4th 2018. The publication has been reviewed by the Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soil (ITPS) and contributing authors. It addresses scientific evidences on soil pollution and highlights the need to assess the extent of soil pollution globally in order to achieve food safety and sustainable development. This is linked to FAO’s strategic objectives, especially SO1, SO2, SO4 and SO5 because of the crucial role of soils to ensure effective nutrient cycling to produce nutritious and safe food, reduce atmospheric CO2 and N2O concentrations and thus mitigate climate change, develop sustainable soil management practices that enhance agricultural resilience to extreme climate events by reducing soil degradation processes. This document will be a reference material for those interested in learning more about sources and effects of soil pollution.
Download or read book Soil Health Series written by Douglas L. Karlen and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The maintenance of healthy soil resources is instrumental to the success of an array of global efforts and initiatives. Whether they are working to combat food shortages, conserve our ecosystems, or mitigate the impact of climate change, researchers and agriculturalists the world over must be able to correctly examine and understand the complex nature of this essential resource. These new volumes have been designed to meet this need, addressing the many dimensions of soil health analysis in chapters that are concise, accessible and applicable to the tasks at hand. Soil Health, Volume Two: Laboratory Methods for Soil Health Analysis provides explanations of the best practices by which one may arrive at valuable, comparable data and incisive conclusions, and covers topics including: Sampling considerations and field evaluations. Assessment and interpretation of soil-test biological activity. Macro- and micronutrients in soil quality and health PLFA and EL-FAME indicators. Offering a practical guide to collecting and understanding soil health data, this volume will be of great interest to all those working in agriculture, private sector businesses, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), academic-, state-, and federal-research projects, as well as state and federal soil conservation, water quality and other environmental programs.--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Lead in Plants and the Environment written by Dharmendra K. Gupta and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the way that lead enters the biosphere and the subsequent environmental impact. The contributing authors include international experts who provide methods for assessing and characterizing the ecological risk of lead contamination of soil and plants. Information is provided on the consequences for human health as a result of lead pollution. This book reveals that approximately 98% of stable lead in the atmosphere originates from human activities. Lead in Plants and the Environment reports on methods for detecting, measuring, and assessing the concentration of lead in plants. The authors provide a method for the measurement of 210Pb isotopes in plants. This method can be applied extensively in different environmental settings, not only as a way of revealing sources of lead, but also as a way to monitor lead transport in plants and animals that ingest them. The chapters include coverage on the following topics: · Lead bioavailability in the environment and its exposure and effects · Radioanalytical methods for detecting and identifying trace concentrations of lead in the environment · Lead contamination and its dynamics in soil plant systems · Lead pollution monitoring and remediation through terrestrial plants in mesocosm constructed wetlands · A review of phytoremediation of lead This book is a valuable resource to students, academics, researchers, and environmental professionals doing field work on lead contamination throughout the world.
Download or read book Lead in the Soil Environment written by Daniel H. Khan and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health and Safety Management of Lead in Soil in U S Air Froce Bases written by Ricardo De Jesus and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban soils contaminated with lead can pose a health risk if vegetables and fruits from the garden are consumed. In general, we don't think our gardens as dangerous or toxic, but unfortunately some garden soils do contain toxic levels of lead. Chipping paint around older structures will raise the lead level in the soils directly adjacent to the building. Restrictions to lead paint started in the 1950's. Today lead paint content has been reduced; however paint companies are allowed to mix up to 0.05% lead in paints. Lead use has been reduced significantly, but not entirely eliminated. Soil can be contaminated with lead from other sources such as industrial sites, industrial sludge with heavy metals, auto emissions, old lead plumbing pipes or even old orchard sites in production when lead arsenate was in use. The main concern with lead in firing ranges is the fate and transport of heavy metals from bullets fragments accumulating in soil. Of these metals, lead is the predominant contaminant. Lead is considered the top environmental threat to children's health. The U.S. military alone has cleaned up more than 700 firing ranges across the country over the past several years. The U.S. Air Force conducted a study at Shaw Air Force base to determine the lead concentrations in ground water and soil collected from the Small Arms Firing Range in 1992. The purpose of this study was to determine the levels of contamination in the soil in order to develop a restoration plan. The goal of the restoration plan was to clean up the land for future use. The Defense Environmental Restoration Program (DERP) conducted a project at Beale Air Force Base to clean up contaminated lead soil and to prevent any future fine and environmental expenses for the base. The main goal was to protect the base population from the lead and other contaminants hazards. In 1992 the Air Force conducted an investigation that included environmental sampling of soil and lead of the Tyndall Elementary School grounds. The Air Force collected lead samples in areas where children play on the school ground. Because lead concentrations results were below the toxic levels for lead, the Air Force concluded that no further action was needed. Further investigation for soil removal took part in 1992 and 2009. Under the Critical Removal Action field activities included site preparation, waste characterization, investigative sample chemical analysis, contaminated soil excavation, dust control, disposal, backfill and grading, and site restoration. Over the years the Air Force has been able to educate the military community on health hazards in the base facilities especially lead exposure and have been able to implement programs dedicated to prevent any lead overexposure.
Download or read book Lead in Paint Soil and Dust written by Michael E. Beard and published by ASTM International. This book was released on 1995 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a July 1993 conference in Boulder, Colorado, 28 papers review the latest results in research on monitoring and controlling environmental exposures to lead in paint, soil, and dust. They provide a multidisciplinary overview of research programs, the status of analytical methods, and certificatio
