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Soil bioremediation alternatives for hydrocarbon contamination.

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Sincerely,

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Article 1134 of bionet.plants:
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From: ac571@Freenet.carleton.ca (Edwinna Von Baeyer)
Subject: Plant pollution fighters
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Hi.  I'm a freelance writer/editor specializing in environmental
topics, forestry, horticulture and landscape history.  Recently
I read a short,general article about Bill C. Wolverton's work with
measuring the amounts of household pollution caused by new carpets,
recent paint jobs, etc.that a number of common house plants could
absorb.  What I would like to know is where could I begin to search
for related work on this subject -- is there a database, an index,
or just specific journals I could check?  I'm not just interested in
closed support systems, but would like to research on other plant
experiments of the Wolverton type.  Any direction you could give
me would be appreciated.
Thanks,  Edwinna von Baeyer
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Writer/Researcher/Editor
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Article 1137 of bionet.plants:
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From: wick@NETCOM.COM (Potter Wickware)
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Subject: Re: Plant pollution fighters
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How about TOXLINE, from Natl Library of Medicine, Bethesda MD, available
from DIALOG.  It has over 1.6M records.

On 27 Apr 1993 louhelainen@cc.helsinki.fi wrote:

> In article <1993Apr27.002303.3152@freenet.carleton.ca>, ac571@Freenet.carleton.ca (Edwinna Von Baeyer) writes:
> > 
> > I read a short,general article about Bill C. Wolverton's work with
> > measuring the amounts of household pollution caused by new carpets,
> > recent paint jobs, etc.that a number of common house plants could
> > absorb.  What I would like to know is where could I begin to search
> > for related work on this subject -- is there a database, an index,
> > or just specific journals I could check?  I'm not just interested in
> 
>  
>   Here are some databases:
> 
>   BIOSIS
>   ******
> 
>   File supplier:	Biosciences Information Service
> 			2100 Arch Street
> 			Philadelphia, PA 191103
> 			United States
> 			Phone (215) 5874800
> 
>    ENVIROLINE
>    **********
> 
>    File supplier:	EIC/Intelligence
> 			48 West 38th Street
> 			New York, N.Y. 10018
> 			United States
> 			Phone (212) 944 8500
>   
>    POLLUTION
>    *********
>  
>    File supplier:	Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
> 			5161 River Road
> 			Bethesda, Maryland 20816
> 			United States
> 			Phone (800) 6388076
> 
> 
>    HSELINE
>    *******
> 
>    File supplier:	Health and Safety Executive
> 			Information Centre
> 			Broad Lane
> 			Sheffield S3 7HQ
> 			United Kingdom
> 			Phone 742 768141
>                         Fax   742 720006






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In article <1993Apr27.002303.3152@freenet.carleton.ca>, ac571@Freenet.carleton.ca (Edwinna Von Baeyer) writes:
> 
> I read a short,general article about Bill C. Wolverton's work with
> measuring the amounts of household pollution caused by new carpets,
> recent paint jobs, etc.that a number of common house plants could
> absorb.  What I would like to know is where could I begin to search
> for related work on this subject -- is there a database, an index,
> or just specific journals I could check?  I'm not just interested in

 
  Here are some databases:

  BIOSIS
  ******

  File supplier:	Biosciences Information Service
			2100 Arch Street
			Philadelphia, PA 191103
			United States
			Phone (215) 5874800

   ENVIROLINE
   **********

   File supplier:	EIC/Intelligence
			48 West 38th Street
			New York, N.Y. 10018
			United States
			Phone (212) 944 8500
  
   POLLUTION
   *********
 
   File supplier:	Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
			5161 River Road
			Bethesda, Maryland 20816
			United States
			Phone (800) 6388076


   HSELINE
   *******

   File supplier:	Health and Safety Executive
			Information Centre
			Broad Lane
			Sheffield S3 7HQ
			United Kingdom
			Phone 742 768141
                        Fax   742 720006


 
  




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From: vbell@mail.sas.upenn.edu (Vance Bell)
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Subject: The Use of Plants to Treat Wastewater
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I am greatly interested in the possiblity of using plants, and/or entire
ecosystems to treat wastewaste.  I understand that work on this has been
attempted in Northern California; Sugarbush, Vermont; Louisiana; Cape May,
Massachussetts, and possibly other places.

I would greatly appreciate any references on this type of research.

The main source I presently have is an article on the New Alchemy
Institute, in Massachussetts, and a man named John Todd who has apparently
founded a company to promote the "technology."

Citations of reference books on plant abilities to sequester metals, or
treat water would also be helpful.

Thank You.

Vance Bell: vbell@mail.sas.upenn.edu


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From: ajt@rri.sari.ac.uk (Tony Travis)
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Subject: Re: The Use of Plants to Treat Wastewater
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Vance Bell (vbell@edu.upenn.sas.mail) wrote:
: I am greatly interested in the possiblity of using plants, and/or entire
: ecosystems to treat wastewaste.  I understand that work on this has been
: attempted in Northern California; Sugarbush, Vermont; Louisiana; Cape May,
: Massachussetts, and possibly other places.

I don't have any references, Vance :-(

.... but a lot of work has been done on the water hiacynth (Eichhornia)
which apparently thrives when growing on all sorts of waste/polluted
water, and improves the quality of the water in the process.

I think there was a project to use the plant material produced, but I'm
uncertain what for because accumulation of toxic substances would make
it useless for feeding animals.

	Tony.
-- 
Dr. A.J.Travis,                       |  JANET: <ajt@uk.ac.sari.rri>
Rowett Research Institute,            |  other: <ajt@rri.sari.ac.uk>
Greenburn Road, Bucksburn,            |  phone: +44 (0)224 712751
Aberdeen, AB2 9SB. UK.                |    fax: +44 (0)224 715349


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In article <1993Mar17.131425.4355@gserv1.dl.ac.uk>, ajt@rri.sari.ac.uk (Tony Travis) writes:
|> Vance Bell (vbell@edu.upenn.sas.mail) wrote:
|> : I am greatly interested in the possiblity of using plants, and/or entire
|> : ecosystems to treat wastewaste.  I understand that work on this has been
|> : attempted in Northern California; Sugarbush, Vermont; Louisiana; Cape May,
|> : Massachussetts, and possibly other places.
|> I don't have any references, Vance :-(
|> .... but a lot of work has been done on the water hiacynth (Eichhornia)
|> which apparently thrives when growing on all sorts of waste/polluted
|> water, and improves the quality of the water in the process.

Disney-World in Orlando, FL is using plants to process their waste water.
I'm sure they would be glad to give you references ... good public
relations and all that.

Ed Clarke
clarke@watson.ibm.com


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Subject: Re: The Use of Plants to Treat Wastewater
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Vance:

    I have no references, but I've heard that at the Instituto Tecnologico de
Costa Rica there is some people working in the matter.  Using the
water hyacint (don't really know how to write it, sorry).  You can try to
contact Juan Carlos Carvajal (jccarvaj@ucrvm2.bitnet) who is the manager at
that institute, and ask him to put in contact with the people who is working
in that project.

Good luck,

Victor

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From: cunninsd@esvax.dnet.dupont.com
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Subject: plant-based, wastewater treatment systems
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Wastewater treatment with plants is a well established discipline,
but with recent advances in genetic engineering and the tightening
of certain regulations (including POTW discharge limits, storm
drain run off, etc.) it is being revisted by new techniques. 

Some random thoughts:

1.  A good review of the engineering component might be found in 
chapter 13 "Land Treatment" of WASTEWATER ENGINEERING: 
TREATMENT, DISPOSAL AND REUSE.  Revised by George Tchobanoglous.  
Published by McGraw-Hill Book Company.  Plants/crops have been 
used as a land treatment system since the 1880's.  

2.  Specific literature searches on the subject /or following people 
will also give quite a list of excellent references:

 B. C. Wolverton-  reed beds, aquatic plants, constructed wetlands
he is now with Wolverton Environmental (601) 799-3807

Reinhold Kickuth  (Germany)- aquatic plant filter beds -lots of good 
papers & research.

R.F. Stott - (try Letters in Applied Microbiology, 1991 12, 99-105 
"Sewage treatment with plants")

USEPA (1988) document- Design Manual- Constructed Wetlands and 
Aquatic Plant Systems for Municipal Wastewater Treatment, EPA 
625/11-88/022

3.  There are many companies that promote, sell, or install plant-
based, wastewater treatment systems.  Some are listed below, but there are many
more:

The Lemna Corp- St. Paul Minn. (612) 688-8813
BBI-Charles Town W.V (304) 725-6880
EEA -Marion, Mass. (508) 748-3224
Phragmitech inc- Cheneville, Quebec (819) 428-3640
Severn Trent (Coventry, CV3 6PR- IN UK) -M.B. Green  
   they are installing 100's of reed bed systems and seem to have   
   done a good job on the engineering parameter.
Environmental Engineering Consultants, Norwich, Vt 05055

4.  As an overall comment- the design, supporting matrix (soil, etc),
plant species and rates of degradation can all be improved by the R & 
D community. Degradation of toxins by the plants, and plant-
associated microbes is a relatively "hot" topic currently under
examination in a dozen labs. There is some excellent work being done
in this area at Federal, State and University labs. 

5. A couple of conferences to note with plant & Xenobiotic 
degradation components are:  

Meeting of the Air and Waste Management Assoc Denver June 13-18
Congress on Cell and Tissue Culture, San Diego June 5-9
ACS Meeting- Chicago Aug 22-27 A symposium on rhizosphere     
      degradation
Water Environment Federation Meeting (Fall)
Soils Science Society of America (Fall) 


The standard disclaimer applies about these not being corporate 
opinions, just mine.  There is quite a lot of information out there on
the flux of chemicals through this systems, plant uptake,
degradative capacity of plants, etc...  There is a lot of room for good
inovative botany/microbiology/hydrology etc.