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What is Remediation of Contaminated Soil

Handbook of Research on Advancements in Environmental Engineering
Reducing the concentration of pollution to acceptable levels in accordance with the future land use; physical / chemical / biological / mechanical isolation of contamination to prevent further reaction (the spread) of contaminated soil with the environment and reducing the bioavailability of organic and inorganic impurities.
Published in Chapter:
Effects of Soil Contamination on the Selection of Remediation Method
Ivica Kisić (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 28
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-7336-6.ch008
Abstract
Soil is a thin (up to 50cm) loose top layer of the Earth's surface, located between the lithosphere and atmosphere. Total available land area on Earth is limited, and the soil is extremely important, and in one generation it is a non-renewable natural resource. Unfortunately, nowadays the soil is, next to water, one of the most endangered natural resources. Among the many processes of soil damage, which is not being addressed at this point, is the growing importance placed on soil contamination. Contaminated soil is the soil in which human or natural activity has increased the content of harmful substances whose concentrations may be harmful to human activity, that is, for the production of plants or animals.
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