CONTRIBUTION OF THE SOIL TO THE MIGRATION OF CERTAIN COMMON AND TRACE ELEMENTS

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Quantitative information on the immobilization of potentially health-hazard trace elements (e.g., Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb, Zn, etc.) to prevent their migration through soil to water sources is scant. Baseline information is presented as a beginning for the control of hazardous trace element migration through soils. The contribution of 11 USA soils to the mobility of some common and trace elements as influenced by 4 readily characterized waste stream and leachate vehicles; pure water, dilute acid, solutions resembling industrial wastes and municipal landfill leachates; is reported. Data are presented showing that soils release potentially hazardous constituents which migrate at different rates depending on certain measurable indigenous parameters, solubilizing and mobility effects are a continuing process, even the cleanest aqeous vehicle can become a carrier of potentially hazardous trace elements and certain characteristics of the soil, even under the most ideal conditions, must be identified before a management plan can be developed for the control of hazardous constituents in waste disposal.

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