Sentences with phrase «contamination of soil»

Following the Phase I ESA, Phase II Subsurface Testing is done to determine if the potential concerns identified have resulted in the contamination of soil, soil gas or groundwater.

Policies cover any type of small - scale pollution that causes contamination of soil, groundwater or property.

The percentage expressing a great deal of worry about pollution of drinking water, as well as contamination of soil and water by toxic waste, increased by seven percentage points.

Knowing that you generally have a fairly sizable dog population, it is possible that there is a heavy re-exposure rate from fecal contamination of the soil.

Antibiotics and are linked to a variety of health problems, including the spread of antibiotic - resisting strains of common illnesses, contamination of soil and water, and some scientists believe that medications given to animals transfer to people when their meat is consumed - meaning you are being drugged every time you eat a fast - food burger.

Health officials from South Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines are beginning to screen food imported from Japan for radiation, and several other Southeast Asian countries are expressing concern over the potential for contamination of soil and water that could affect food sources.

As published today in The Lancet, scientists found only a few eggs anywhere else around the remains or in the surrounding soil so they conclude that the eggs from his gut (see photo inset) came from a roundworm infection, not contamination of the soil.

A Duke study has found wastewater spills are widespread, causing long - lasting contamination of soil and water.

However, there is still a lot more to do, such as cleaning up the contamination of our soil and water way and finding another home for the bomb detonation unit,» said Assemblyman Benedetto.

Commercial baby food companies may buy veggies that are grown in a part of the country where the nitrate contamination of soil is lower, where the sun shines more or where Farmer's do not use high levels of nitrogen containing fertilizers.

Contamination of soils, rivers and streams by industry is a growing obstacle to safe urban food production.

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Moreover, the transformation of farming into an agribusiness has brought with it a host of environmental problems, including ground water depletion and contamination, soil toxification, and contamination of food supplies.

FDA proposes to set standards associated with identified routes of microbial contamination of produce, including agricultural water, biological soil amendments of animal origin, health and hygiene, animals in the growing area, equipment, tools, buildings and sprouts.

Level 2 = level at which a product is ineligible for the OMRI Products List due to risk of soil contamination

Prior to applying new products, the benefits of soil fertility must be carefully weighed against the risks, and the first step is identifying potential sources of contamination.

Second, the rules state that the use of allowed substances must «not contribute to contamination of crops, soil, or water.»

Governments are increasingly concerned about the impacts of inappropriate practices on the health of the natural environment, especially from soil erosion, contamination from agrochemicals, and inefficient use of water resources.

The lack of chemicals means that there is less contamination to the soil or underground water supply.

The EPA has asked nine City of Lockport residential property owners for permission to take soil samples at their homes, because it is trying to determine whether there was off - site contamination from the former Flintkote plant on Mill Street, which the agency tore down last year in a Superfund cleanup project.

There have been no tests whatsoever on the much more important issues of long - term soil pollution, transgene flow (carrying contamination to neighbouring fields), the very difficult problem of superweeds, or on the environmental impacts if crop yield profiteering were maximised.

The Departments of Environmental Conservation and Health recently announced that Honeywell, one of the companies that's been deemed responsible for the contamination of local water supplies with the chemical PFOA, would conduct a soil vapor intrusion investigation near the company's former facility on John Street.

Destiny's attorneys told the state it removed more than 80,000 cubic yards of contaminated soil and installed a vapor barrier to keep fumes from any remaining contamination from getting into the mall addition.

Tenth Place: Raley Schweinfurth, 18, of Portland, Ore., received a $ 40,000 award for her study of honey, soil and tree contamination levels following an insecticide - spraying incident in 2013 in Oregon that killed more than 50,000 bees.

Nakanishi is coordinating seven teams to study the impact of the disaster on soil, plants, animals, fisheries and forests for the next decade, measuring contamination levels and assessing the long - term threat.

Meanwhile, researchers were showing that besides soil and water contamination, hog CAFOs emit high volumes of the potent greenhouse gas methane (pound for pound, hog manure produces twice the methane of cattle manure) and ammonia, which has been linked to respiratory ailments.

We found heavy contamination of dust in people's homes and heavy contamination of the yard soil.

Nitrogen saturation can cause a cascade of adverse effects including a decrease in biodiversity, changes in plant species, soil acidification and water contamination.

This burning technique is used in environmental studies to verify the quality or contamination of fuels and soils.

At the time, many experts were betting on hydrocarbon - eating bacteria as an eco-friendlier alternative to the conventional way of cleaning up such contamination — which was to truck the affected soil to a landfill and replace it with clean dirt.

And simple screening — with Geiger counters and the like — of soil, food and seafood can pick up radiation at low levels (so low, in fact, that the lower - end readings indicate contamination that not likely to be harmful).

Now researchers from the Center for Public Health and the Institute of Medical Genetics at MedUni Vienna have shown that this practice can also be detrimental to health: pregnant women who consume particular types of soil display higher levels of lead contamination — as do their babies.

The researchers» aim is now to conduct a larger study to determine more precisely which types of soil and what quantities contribute to lead contamination.

That waste, which contains microbes that can make humans sick, is collected in open pits or sprayed on fields as fertilizer, risking contamination of the air, water, and soil.

Any earthly contamination — of the Martian soil or of the instruments sent to study it — would seriously muddy the multibillion - dollar hunt for extraterrestrial life.

Soil contamination is the presence of man - made chemicals or other alteration to the natural soil environmSoil contamination is the presence of man - made chemicals or other alteration to the natural soil environmsoil environment.

The contamination happens if E. coli enters water, either directly from the contaminative source, or indirectly via e.g. soil irrigation with fecally contaminated water or use of organic animal - based fertilizers.

Moreover, radioactive contamination has spread to a 30 - kilometer radius of the stricken plant, including to towns even farther afield, such as Iitate, which is so contaminated that it will have to be abandoned or its soil scooped up and entirely replaced.

Most of the contamination is in the top six inches of the soil, probably from the chemicals drifting over from the plant, Rockafellow said.

Dafydd Rhys Jones of IGER says that 80 per cent of the radioactive contamination is still in the soil.

The study found no groundwater contamination or soil - fertility decline after three years, while the presence of trace metals remained low.

It involves blasting large volumes of water, sand and chemicals to release the gas, and has been linked to water and soil contamination when untreated fracking waste is improperly released into the environment.

According to Leguay, lead from car exhausts that finds its way into the soil of vineyards next to major roads is only a «very minor» source of contamination.

Functional diversity of ectomycorrhizal fungal communities is reduced by trace element contamination — Álvaro López - García — Soil Biology and Biochemistry

The sensitivity of soil enzymes, microorganisms and spring wheat to soil contamination with carfentrazone - ethyl — Monika Tomkiel — Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part B

It also means scaling up pharmaceutical production, enhancing soil nutrient yields, and removing threats of disease contamination from our food supply.

Several contamination controls were high in Phyllobacteriaceae, another bacteria associated with soil and plants that has been identified as a contaminant of DNA extraction kits [9, 10].

Larger proportions of soil microbes (e.g. Actinobacteria) were observed in the cortices of the coprolites, which were likely due to environmental contamination, whereas smaller proportions were seen in the corresponding cores.

But it is important to appreciate that this risk occurs whether or not a plant protein is certified organic because the sources of the contamination are from the soil, the air and the manufacturing process.

The site proposed for Audubon's temporary campus has lead contamination in the soil of the playground area exceeding federal standards by 10 times or more, prompting some parents to insist the entire site have the lead removed before their children arrive next fall.

What they found instead was a vacant lot at the corner of Annunciation and Orange in the Lower Garden District where they plan to create a campus of modular buildings, but soil tests of the playground area there have revealed lead contamination in the soil that exceeds federal limits by 10 times or more.