Inorganic Contaminants in the Vadose Zone

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIII

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2. Processes and Principles of Pollutants Behaviour in Reactive Porous Media

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Organo-Metal Complexes as Mobility-Determining Factors of Inorganic Toxic Elements in Porous Media

      • H. Klamberg, G. Matthess, A. Pekdeger

      Pages 3-17

   3. Suitability of Sorption-Desorption Models to Simulate Partitioning and Movement of Ions in Soils

      • N. J. Barrow

      Pages 18-32

   4. Oxyanion Sorption on Soil Surfaces

      • U. Kafkafi

      Pages 33-42

   5. The Effects of Micro-Scale Solute Movement on Biotic Transformations in Porous Media

      • P. R. Darrah

      Pages 43-56

   6. Effect of Gels and Coatings on Clay Mineral Chemical Properties

      • M. Robert, M. Terce

      Pages 57-71

3. Behaviour of Specific Elements

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73

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   2. Fluoride Sorption and Mobility in Reactive Porous Media

      • B. Bar-Yosef, I. Afik, R. Rosenberg

      Pages 75-88

   3. Cu, Zn, and Cd Availability in a Sludge-Amended Soil Under Controlled pH and Redox Potential Conditions

      • R. P. Gambrell, W. H. Patrick Jr.

      Pages 89-106

   4. Microbiological Aspects of Heavy Metal and Toxic Chemical Behaviour in Porous Media

      • K. H. Domsch

      Pages 107-121

4. Management of Inorganic Pollutants

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-124

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   2. Municipal Sludges and Utility Ashes in California and Their Effects on Soils

      • A. C. Chang, A. L. Page, L. J. Lund, J. E. Warneke, C. O. Nelson

      Pages 125-139

   3. Toxic Element Accumulation in Soils and Crops: Protecting Soil Fertility and Agricultural Food-Chains

      • R. L. Chaney

      Pages 140-158

   4. Sources and Distribution of Pollutant Elements in the Environment, with Particular Reference to Sewage Sludges

      • P. H. T. Beckett

      Pages 159-175

5. Case Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177

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   2. Advances in Management of Fertilizer Application and the Resulting Effect on the Pollutant Load in Soil

      • Y. Shevah, M. Waldman

      Pages 179-189

   3. Water and Anion Transport in the Unsaturated Zone Traced by Environmental Tritium

      • H. Gvirtzman, M. Magaritz

      Pages 190-198

6. Back Matter

   Pages 199-200

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The understanding of pollutant transformations, sorption and transport in soils and uptake by plants is the key to controlling contaminant movement towards groundwater and accumulation in food-chains. Some of these major processes were discussed in the first International Workshop on Pollutants in Porous Media, con­ vened in Israel in 1983 (pollutants in Porous Media, Eds. Yaron, Dagan and Goldshmid, Springer-Verlag, 1984). Since that meeting, research on contaminant impact on the environment expanded considerably. New mechanisms explaining inorganic pollutant par­ titioning between solid and solution phases in soils were proposed and tested; specific elements and specific reactions were investigat­ ed, and more case studies to evaluate management practice effects on drinking water quality and accumulation of contaminants in crops were carried out. The recognition that the new knowledge needs to be discussed and evaluated, and the scientific and engineering communities be updated, led the IUPAC (Interna­ tional Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) and IAHS (Interna­ tional Association of Hydrological Sciences) Water Quality Com­ missions to organize a second International Workshop on pollu­ tant behaviour in the vadose zone, hosted by the Institute of Soils and Water of the Agricultural Research Organization, Israel. In this workshop, taking place in June 1987, attention was focused on chemical, physico-chemical and microbial-mediated reactions of different contaminants in the vadose zone. This book contains selected works presented in the 1987 workshop by invited special­ ists from various disciplines and countries.

• chemistry
• drinking water
• environment
• groundwater
• pollutants
• transport
• water
• ecotoxicology
• water quality and water pollution

• Institute of Soils and Water, Agricultural Research Organization The Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel

  Bnayahu Bar-Yosef

• Division of Animal Production Private Bag, CSIRO, PO Wembley, Australia

  N. J. Barrow

• Environmental Engineering & Design Comp. Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel

  J. Goldshmid

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