Characterization and metal availability of copper, lead, antimony and zinc contamination at four Canadian small arms firing ranges

Environmental Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 767-781

  Laporte Saumure, Mathieu ^a   Martel, Richard ^a   Mercier, Guy ^a  

^a CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

Author keywords

contaminated soils; GJST; metal availability; SPLP; TCLP

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; COPPER; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; GROUNDWATER; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; LEACHATE TREATMENT; LEACHING; LEAD; METALS; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; POTABLE WATER; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOIL TESTING; SOILS; TOXICITY; WASTE DISPOSAL; ZINC;

AVAILABILITY ASSESSMENT; CANADIAN FORCES; CONTAMINATED SOILS; CONTAMINATION DISTRIBUTION; FIELD CONDITIONS; FIRING RANGES; GASTRIC JUICE; GJST; GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTION; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA-ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; LANDFILL LEACHATES; LEACHATES; LEACHING TEST; LEAD CARBONATE; METAL DISPERSIONS; METAL TRANSFERS; POTENTIAL RISKS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; SEM-EDS; SIMULATION TESTS; SMALL ARMS FIRING RANGES; SPLP; SYNTHETIC PRECIPITATION LEACHING PROCEDURES; TCLP; TOXICITY CHARACTERISTICS LEACHING PROCEDURES;

SOIL POLLUTION;

ANTIMONY; COPPER; GROUND WATER; LEAD; ZINC;

ANTIMONY; COPPER; DRINKING WATER; GRAIN SIZE; HEALTH RISK; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; INGESTION RATE; LEACHING; LEAD; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL POLLUTION; ZINC;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; HEAVY METAL REMOVAL; LANDFILL LEACHATE; LEACHING; METAL RECOVERY; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSICOCHEMICAL MODEL; RECREATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SMALL ARM FIRING RANGE; SOIL POLLUTION CONTROL; STOMACH JUICE; SYNTHETIC PRECIPITATION LEACHING PROCEDURE; TOXICITY CHARACTERISTIC LEACHING PROCEDURE;

CANADA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 79959429820     PISSN: 09593330     EISSN: 1479487X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2010.512298     Document Type: Article

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