When is a soil remediated?: Comparison of biopiled and windrowed soils contaminated with bunker-fuel in a full-scale trial

Frederic Coulon; Mohammed Al Awadi; William Cowie; David Mardlin; Simon Pollard; Colin Cunningham; Graeme Risdon; Paul Arthur; Kirk T. Semple; Graeme I. Paton

doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2010.06.001

When is a soil remediated? Comparison of biopiled and windrowed soils contaminated with bunker-fuel in a full-scale trial

Frederic Coulon, Mohammed Al Awadi, William Cowie, David Mardlin, Simon Pollard, Colin Cunningham, Graeme Risdon, Paul Arthur, Kirk T. Semple, Graeme I. Paton

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Abstract

A six month field scale study was carried out to compare windrow turning and biopile techniques for the remediation of soil contaminated with bunker C fuel oil. End-point clean-up targets were defined by human risk assessment and ecotoxicological hazard assessment approaches. Replicate windrows and biopiles were amended with either nutrients and inocula, nutrients alone or no amendment. In addition to fractionated hydrocarbon analysis, culturable microbial characterisation and soil ecotoxicological assays were performed. This particular soil, heavy in texture and historically contaminated with bunker fuel was more effectively remediated by windrowing, but coarser textures may be more amendable to biopiling. This trial reveals the benefit of developing risk and hazard based approaches in defining end-point bioremediation of heavy hydrocarbons when engineered biopile or windrow are proposed as treatment option. (c) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3032-3040
Number of pages	9
Journal	Environmental Pollution
Volume	158
Issue number	10
Early online date	24 Jul 2010
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2010.06.001
Publication status	Published - Oct 2010

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Keywords

Bunker fuel
Windrows
Biopiles
Bioremediation
Soil ecotoxicology
Sub-Antarctic soils
Petroleum-hydrocarbons
Ecotoxicity assessment
Toxicity tests
Biodegradation
Degradation
Crude
Environment
Fertilizer

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