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.