Description and Sampling of Contaminated Soils A Field Guide [Hardcover]

This second edition of EPA's bestselling book, Description and Sampling of Contaminated Soils: A Field Guide, Second Edition, has been revised and significantly expanded over the original edition. An ideal reference for anyone involved in site investigations, this guide describes how to determine the amount and extent of soil contamination and potential for movement of contaminants in the soil and groundwater. It contains checklists, tables, and step-by-step descriptions of methods and procedures for:

Cost-effective, detailed site investigations for evaluating the potential for contaminant transport

Field collection of information on soil engineering properties required for remediation selection and design
This guide also features an adaptation of soil description procedures used by the U.S. Soil Conservation Service (SCS) for investigating contaminated sites. The SCS soil description and classification procedures, when used in combination with the Unified Soil Classification System currently used by geologists and engineers, greatly improves contaminated site assessments.

(Section Headings): How to Use This Guide. Field Methods, Equipment, and Documents. Site Characteristics. Field Description and Analysis of Soils. Soil Sampling and Quality Assurance. References. Appendices. Index.

AUTHOR BIO

J. Russell Boulding first began working in the environmental field in 1973 when he helped set up the Environmental Defense Fund's Denver Office, and has been a free-lance environmental consultant since 1977 when he established Boulding Soil-Water Consulting in Bloomington, Indiana. He has a B.A. in Geology (1970) from Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, and an M.S. in Water Resources Management (1975) from the University of Wisconsin/Madison. From 1975 to 1977 he was a soil scientist with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources and mapped soils in southern Indiana on a cooperative program with tlcF