Analysis and estimation model of contaminated soils [articol]

Abstract

The paperwork presents and analyzes the main stages of the estimating process of contaminated soil risk, namely: to develop a land conceptual model (LCM); to compare the LCM with the soil working scenario (SWS), to define data collecting necessity for identifying the areas surpassing the SWSs, to sample and to analyze the soils on site, to calculate the SWSs specific to the site, to compare the contaminating element concentrations of soils with computed SWSs, to make decisions regarding the need of later surveys. In managing the contaminated soils, a full strategy should be applied taking into account: all the functions the soil could have, its variability and complexity, degrading processes as well as the social-economical aspects intervening in setting the soil quality.