ABSTRACT
The Environmental Advisory Unit of Liverpool University Ltd Merseyside Innovation Centre, 131 Mt. Pleasant, Liverpool L3 5TF
ABSTRACT
Contaminated land cannot be successfully reclaimed unless the behaviour of the chemicals comprising the contamination is fully understood. Different chemical contaminants partition to varying degrees between the vapour, solid, and liquid phases of the soil and thus behave in different manners. This behaviour is dependent upon chemical and physical characteristics of such contaminants which will in turn govern the incidence of bioaccumulation, leaching and migration. Contaminant interaction with soils will therefore influence the integrity and life span of a reclamation scheme.
