The bacteria can contaminate vegetables, meats, and other foods that come in contact with contaminated soil or manure.
Lawn and golf-course grass will be tougher, trees more resistant to drought, or adapted to clean up contaminated soil.
So far, nobody has any idea where any contaminated soil will be dumped.
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Humans may catch the infection from eating undercooked meat from animals harbouring toxoplasma or from contact with cat litter or contaminated soil.
When it spilled, it seeped into the soil beneath and the contaminated soil has since been taken away and will go into landfill.
Digging up contaminated soil releases odours previously trapped underground.
Hajduch and his colleagues in Ukraine conducted a proteomic study (examining the structure and function of proteins) of the plants and found that the seeds harvested inside the exclusion zone compared favorably with ones grown in non-contaminated soil outside.
The development of a hundred and thirty-eight acres at the junction of two major interstates was a challenge because a hundred and fifty thousand tons of contaminated soil had to be removed before the project on the site of the old steel mill could even begin.
Zoning laws would be rewritten so that, over time, large parcels of abandoned land would be converted into landscaped open space networks that would capture and clean storm water, improve air quality, and clean contaminated soil as well as provide new recreational opportunities like bike paths and hiking trails and create habitats for local wildlife and migrating birds.
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Radioactivity contaminated the soil and sea near the plant, the Tokyo water supply and trace amounts of radiation are being detected in Asia and North America.
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While reluctantly agreeing, Kazakhstan said it feared that highly toxic fuel had contaminated water and soil over a huge area.
It recommends collecting DU fragments, covering contaminated points with asphalt or clean soil, and keeping records of contaminated sites.
What the city does have is contaminated standing water and soil, downed power lines and limited automobile fuel.
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) said in a blog post that "even where the soil is contaminated with a lead spill, a number of studies have shown that rice plants do not take up a significant amount of lead and move it to the grains".
Children generally pick up lead in soil that has been contaminated by air pollution and dumping.
We learned a bit of history, such as how the city washed two million pounds of soil that had been contaminated by industry and that are now clean lots for the Olympic venues.
The report says people living near incinerators may be exposed to a range of toxic chemicals, by breathing in contaminated air, eating food which has been contaminated, or by skin contact with affected soil.
"Some 45, 000 square kilometers in Western Europe have measurable levels of radioactivity in the soil from Chernobyl above the criterion applied in the former Soviet Union to designate 'contaminated' areas, " said UNSCEAR Secretary Malcolm Crick.
Mr Illes said a layer of soil 2cm deep (0.8 inches) would need to be removed from the whole of the contaminated region.
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