Contaminated Land Area due to Industrial Hazardous Waste Generation and its Remediation in India

( Vol-2,Issue-6,June 2016 )

Author(s): Abhishek Dixit, Manish Nigam, Rahul Mishra

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Contaminated Land, Hazardous Waste, Remediation Techniques.

Abstract:

The rapid growth of industrialization, urbanization and use of pesticides in agricultural fields in India has contributed to the generation of contaminated land. The uncontrolled and non-engineered waste disposal is one of the major causes of ground water contamination, air contamination and land contamination leading to health risks of human beings, animals and ecosystems. This paper is mainly focused on estimating contaminated land area to industrial hazardous waste generation and disposal practices. Presently in India, there is reported 7.2 million tonne hazardous waste generation from more than 40,000 registered industries according to Controller and Auditor General’s report(CAG-2012). This study also summaries the advantages and disadvantages of different methods which are useful to manage a contaminated site by a geo–environmental engineer. For a specific superfund site, there is not only one remediation technique is applicable but also more than one techniques are applicable on the basis of different criteria.

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