Environmental risks of farmed and barren alkaline coal ash landfills in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 153, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 677-686

  Dellantonio, Alex ^a   Fitz, Walter J ^a   Custovic, Hamid ^b   Repmann, Frank ^c   Schneider, Bernd U ^c   Grünewald, Holger ^c   Gruber, Valeria ^d   Zgorelec, Zeljka ^e   Zerem, Nijaz ^f   Carter, Claudia ^g   Markovic, Mihajlo ^h   Puschenreiter, Markus ^a   Wenzel, Walter W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SARAJEVO   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

^c BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d Low level Counting Laboratory   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^f Hydro Engineering Institute   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

^g FOREST RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BANJA LUKA   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Coal ash; Landfill; Pollution; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; COAL COMBUSTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HEALTH RISKS; LAND FILL; RISK ASSESSMENT; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

COAL COMBUSTION RESIDUES (CCR); ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; INORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

COAL ASH;

ARSENIC; CHROMIUM; COAL; COPPER; MOLYBDENUM; TRACE ELEMENT;

ABANDONED LAND; ALKALINITY; ASH; COAL; COMBUSTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; LANDFILL; LEACHATE; POLLUTANT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RUMINANT; TILLAGE; WASTEWATER;

ALFALFA; ARTICLE; BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP; LANDFILL; LEACHING; SOIL; SOIL MANAGEMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL QUALITY; TILLAGE; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER TRANSPORT;

ADSORPTION; AGRICULTURE; ARSENIC; BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA; CHROMIUM; COAL; COPPER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INCINERATION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MOLYBDENUM; POWER PLANTS; REFUSE DISPOSAL; RISK; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TIME;

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ISTANBUL [TURKEY]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TURKEY; TUZLA;

MEDICAGO SATIVA;

EID: 43749092316     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2007.08.032     Document Type: Article

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