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Brownfield RemediationClean-up
Part III
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Urban agriculture
• Has potential to improve the quality of life in urban areas by increasing food security, providing opportunities for community development, and improving the aesthetics of the urban landscape.
• Obstacles: • land availability• restricted budgets • soil contamination.
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Soil Contamination
• A major barrier to urban agriculture initiatives, because contaminants are present in most urban soils at levels higher than are accepted for agricultural use.
• These contaminants can be taken up by plants grown in these soils, and can be harmful to human health if the produce is consumed.
• The barrier of land availability could be partially overcome if brownfields could be used as sites for urban agriculture.
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Remediation
• Remediation involves the removal of contaminants.
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Physical remediation techniques
• Excavation
• Geotextiles
• Soil washing
• Soil vapour
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Excavation
• refers to physically removing contaminated soil, normally for disposal at a landfill.
• Excavation is generally accomplished with heavy machinery.
• New soil is needed after the excavation.
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Geotextiles
• are a synthetic blanket-like material.
• They can be used after the excavation process to provide a protective barrier, impermeable to contaminants which may otherwise migrate into the new soil after excavation.
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Soil washing
• A technique which involves the physical removal of the contaminated soil, followed by treatment at a plant on or off-site.
• After the contamination is removed through the treatment process, the soil is put back into the ground.
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Soil vapour
• extraction involves the installation of wells and pipes in the soil, through which soil contaminants are extracted in vapour form.
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Biological Remediation
• Microbial remediation
• Phytoremediation
• Fungal remediation
• Compost remediation
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Microbial remediation
• Refers to the use of microbes in degrading contaminants into a less toxic form.
• This technique can be very effective in the treatment of hydrocarbons, PAH's, pesticides, and PCB's.
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Phytoremediation
• The process of using plants to degrade organic contaminants or to extract toxic metals from the soil and transport them into the above-ground shoots.
• In the case of extraction, the contaminated plants must later be disposed of soil.
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Fungal remediation
• The use of certain species of fungus to degrade contaminants, particularly hydrocarbons.
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Compost remediation
• The addition of compost to the soil.
• It is not a true remediation technique, as the contaminants generally remain intact in the soil.
• The addition of compost can, however, be used to create a raised bed, in which the plant roots may not reach the contaminated
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