Abstract:
Contamination of soil and water by
various forms of pollutants is a fact in this
industrialized age. Pollutants threaten the health of
biotic and environmental receptors so their effect should
be minimized or even removed if possible.
So far in Romania no one did detailed studies on
natural attenuation. Therefore in this paper, we propose
to present the phenomena occurring in this process. The
natural attenuation process is very complex and includes
transport processes of pollutants, degradation processes
and reduction of contaminants in soil and aquifers.
This paper aims at presenting natural
attenuation phenomena and to highlighting the need for
monitoring these processes.
