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Long-term Strategies for Handling Contaminated Sites and Large-scale Areas

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Biogeodynamics of Pollutants in Soils and Sediments

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In the United States, western and central Europe there are many large-scale polluted sites. These sites are simply too large to be cleaned up with available technologies. They are polluted by mining activities, smelters and other large industries and the pollution extends not only to soils, but also to sediments in water-ways and reservoirs. In addition new large-scale polluted sites are being created under conditions of no or little environmental control. Since these largescale polluted areas are expected to be present for many years, it is necessary to take a long-term view of the metal mobility and of the capacity of these areas to retain contaminants.

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  1. GKSS Research Center, Max Planck Straße, D-21502, Geesthacht, Germany

    Wim Salomons

  2. Institute for Agrobiology and Soil Fertility (AB-DLO), P.O. Box 129, N-9750 AC, Haren, The Netherlands

    Wim Salomons

  3. Centre for Energy and Environmental Education (CEEE), University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa, 50614-0293, USA

    William M. Stigliani

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Salomons, W. (1995). Long-term Strategies for Handling Contaminated Sites and Large-scale Areas. In: Salomons, W., Stigliani, W.M. (eds) Biogeodynamics of Pollutants in Soils and Sediments. Environmental Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79418-6_1

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