The ecological impact of land restoration and cleanup. Technical report

Technical Report · Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1978

OSTI ID:5452713

The report is concerned with the ecological impacts of specific cleanup treatment on the land where they were carried out. The cleanup procedures given apply equally to chemical or radioactive materials. Guidance is provided for cleanup procedures likely to be suggested by government, industry, or environmental groups. The basic types of cleanup procedures for removing or deactiving spilled contamination involve moving people and animals from the affected area, scraping and grading the contaminated soil into windrows, plowing the contamination under, or digging up the contamination and hauling it away. The report describes and evaluates the various land-type cleanup effects in terms of impact of the techniques on the environment. Part I defines several natural ecosystems and some of their natural derivations. Part II presents managed ecosystems which are imposed on natural ecosystems and are no longer bound by the initial native ecosystem balances. Part III deals with avion and mammilian wild life displaced by cleanup.

• Research Organization: Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC (USA). Criteria and Standards Div.
• OSTI ID: 5452713
• Report Number(s): PB-300774; TRN: 80-009620
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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EMERGENCY PLANS
LAND RECLAMATION
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
BIRDS
CHEMICAL PROPERTIES
CLEANING
CLIMATES
CULTIVATION
CUTTING
DEACTIVATION
DESERTS
ECOLOGY
FLOODS
GRASS
INDUSTRY
MAMMALS
NATIONAL GOVERNMENT
POLLUTION
RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS
REMOVAL
TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS
ANIMALS
ARID LANDS
DISASTERS
ECOSYSTEMS
MACHINING
PLANTS
SAFETY
VERTEBRATES
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