Assessment of Gross Accumulation and Leaching Characteristics of Heavy Metals in a Contaminated Urban Soil

The soils of East St. Louis contained many regions of elevated heavy metal concentrations although extreme heterogeneity was evident. In general, the western end of the city contained the most sites with anomalous levels of metals. However, the leaching experiments, although limited in scope, suggested that similar soils would not leach heavy metals appreciably. Moreover, remediation efforts should be directed towards increasing vegetation coverage on the bare soils that characterize many areas of the western end of the city. This would reduce resuspended emissions that have been shown to be an important factor in airborne emissions and would also help control the oxidation and pH conditions of the soils.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Nuclear Engineering

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Kaminski, Michael David

Contributors dc:contributor

• Landsberger, Sheldon

• Engineering, Environmental

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9834697

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/85939