Leaching of copper, chromium and arsenic from treated vineyard posts in Marlborough, New Zealand

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 364, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 113-123

  Robinson, Brett ^a,d   Greven, Marc ^b   Green, Steve ^a   Sivakumaran, Siva ^a   Davidson, Peter ^c   Clothier, Brent ^a  

^a THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

^b Marlborough Wine Research Center   (New Zealand)

^c Marlborough District Council   (New Zealand)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CCA; Groundwater; Soil contamination; Treated timber

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CHROMIUM; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; LEACHING; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL POLLUTION;

CCA; GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION; SOIL CONTAMINATION; TREATED TIMBER;

COPPER;

ARSENIC; CHROMIUM; CONCRETE; COPPER; GROUND WATER; STEEL;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HEAVY METAL; LEACHING; SOIL DEGRADATION; TIMBER; VINEYARD;

ARTICLE; BEECH; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EUCALYPTUS; LEACHING; NEW ZEALAND; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; VINEYARD; WATER CONTAMINATION; WOOD;

AGRICULTURE; ARSENATES; CHROMIUM; COPPER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NEW ZEALAND; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SOLUBILITY; VITIS; WINE; WOOD;

AUSTRALASIA; MARLBOROUGH; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

EUCALYPTUS; FAGUS; PINUS RADIATA;

EID: 33646843446     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2005.07.012     Document Type: Article

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