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Contaminated
Soils, Volume 6
Proceedings of the 2000 Sixteenth Annual Conference on
Contaminated Soils, held at the University of Massachusetts
at Amherst.
Edited
by Paul T. Kostecki, Edward J. Calabrese, and James Dragun
U.S. $59.95, 2001, 445 pp. ISBN 1-884940-26-9
Contaminated Soils, Volume 6 contains a collection of 32
technical papers from the 16th Annual
Contaminated Soils Conference held at the University of
Massachusetts
at Amherst in October 2000. This volume presents a wide
spectrum of environmental data, processes, issues and
solutions. It focuses on present day technical issues such
as bioremediation, chemical analysis, environmental fate of
chemicals, federal/military sites, MTBE in groundwater,
remediation technologies, risk assessment, state regulatory
programs and heavy metal contamination.
As the
case has been over the last two decades, additional sites
are found each year that are contaminated with metals,
petroleum hydrocarbons, volatile organic chemicals, and
other chemicals. However, the financial resources to
remediate these sites has been diminishing as each year goes
by. Expensive remediation projects are only engaged when an
immediate or impending risk to human health and/or the
environment is proven beyond doubt. Fortunately, risk-based
cleanup standards that promote risk-based approaches to site
cleanup and restoration have become ever more popular and
cost effective.
The
success of risk-based approaches must rely upon accurate
site assessment, a correct understanding of environmental
fate processes, a thorough knowledge of potential risk to
human health and the environment, the correct selection of
remedial strategies, the proper implementation of remedial
technologies, and the ongoing monitoring of cleanup progress
towards chosen standards. This text provides data and
information encompassing all of these areas to the
environmental professional.
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