Resources
Please check out the Curricula Development section under Programs and Projects for Worcester Roots’ curricula resources.
1-page Safer Soil Recommendation Sheet
Worcester Roots Recommendations (PDF document 176 kb)
Brandeis University Study on Roots’ visual assessment tool.
Brandeis University Study on Roots’ landscaping and phytoremediation techniques.
Lead Links
- Lead-Safe Yard Project:
http://www.epa.gov/region01/leadsafe/ - CDC Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program:
http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/lead.htm - Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program:
http://www.state.ma.us/dph/clppp/clppp.htm - Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning:
http://www.aeclp.org - HUD’s Lead Hazard Control page:
http://www.hud.gov/offices/lead/index.cfm - Lead Safe Kids (Providence-based project):
http://www.leadsafekids.org - Boston Lead Action Collaborative:
http://www.tufts.edu/tie/LAC/childhood_lead_poisoning - Remediation Technologies Development Forum:
http://www.rtdf.org
Articles On phytoremediation:
- On the ‘Scent’ of Soil Remediation Margaret Boyd
Scientific Studies:
- Heavy Metals in the Environment: Effect of Biosolids Processing on Lead Bioavailability in an Urban Soil Sally Brown and Rufus L. Chaney et. al.
- Speciation, Mobility, and Bioavailability of Soil Lead by Rufus L. Chaney et. al.
- Use of soil amendments to reduce the bioavailability of lead, zinc and cadmium in situ by Sally Brown and Rufus L. Chaney et. al.
- Influence of Fertilizer and Sewage Sludge Compost on Yield and Heavy Metal Accumulation By Lettuce Grown in Urban Soils by S. B. Sterrett and R. L. Chaney et. al.
- Progress in Risk Assessment for Soil Metals, and In-situ Remediation and Phytoextraction of Metals from Hazardous Contaminated Soils by Rufus L. Chaney and Sally Brown et. al.
- THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY METAL EXPOSURE FROM URBAN GARDENS AND SOILS by Rufus L. Chaney et. al.
- In situ Remediation/Reclamation/Restoration of Metals Contaminated Soils using Tailor-Made Biosolids Mixtures by Rufus L. Chaney et. al.
- Use of soil amendments to reduce the bioavailability of lead, zinc and cadmium in situ by Sally Brown and Rufus L. Chaney et. al.
- Phytoremediation of soil metals by Rufus L. Chaney et. al.
- Plant uptake of inorganic waste constituents by Rufus L. Chaney