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Evaluation of Risk from Using Poultry Litter to Remediate and Reuse Contaminated Estuarine Sediments
Author(s) -
Barth Edwin,
Sass Bruce,
Polaczyk Amy,
Landy Ron
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
remediation journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.762
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 1520-6831
pISSN - 1051-5658
DOI - 10.1002/rem.1013
Subject(s) - amendment , reuse , poultry litter , heavy metals , environmental science , sediment , contamination , litter , estuary , manure , waste management , environmental chemistry , environmental engineering , ecology , chemistry , law , engineering , geology , biology , nutrient , paleontology , political science
Abstract The availability of heavy metals in contaminated sediment evaluated for beneficial reuse, before and afterchemical amendment, was evaluated using poultry manure as the amendment. The dredged sediment was only slightlycontaminated with heavy metals. Availability tests on the amended sediment showed an increase in heavy metals,most likely because of poultry feed amendments passed to the manure. There would be difficulty finding onechemical amendment to reduce the availability of a number of heavy metals because the metals exhibit differentchemical properties. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.