• Journal of Korea Soil Environment Society
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.21-34
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• 1997

Retention ponds have been dug along some of the motorways in France to minimize environmental pollution by preventing pollutants from spreading over the surrounding area. A series of studies have been conducted to determine the physicochemical characteristics of the particles settling down in such a pond to evaluate the effectiveness of the pond as a trap for heavy metals such as Pb, Zn and Cd. The highly contaminated roadside soil and the uncontaminated background soil were also studied for comparison. The settling particles exhibited heavy metal concentrations of 2 to 8 times as much as the background Sologne soil, depending on the metal species. However, the heavy metal concentrations in the roadside soil were 7 to 26 times higher than those in the· settling particles. Sequential extraction experiments illustrated that the highly contaminated roadside soil consisted mainly of the readily soluble fractions (FII, FIII and FIV) for all three heavy metals, but little W which is hardly soluble. The proportion of W considerably increased up to one third of the total in the settling particles for Pb and Zn. This result as well as the large concentration differences between the roadside soil and the settling particles indicates that most of the heavy metals were lost to the surroundings even before reaching the retention pond. Cd exhibited somewhat different behavior in that the most soluble FI, which is negligible for Pb and Zn, occupied as much as one fourth of the total in the roadside soil. In addition, FV for Cd did not increase in the settling particles.

• Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.214-225
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• 2022

This study emphasized the soil of environmental impact assessment to devise measures to minimize the negative impact of project implementation on the environment. As a series of efforts for impact assessment procedures, a national inventory-based database was established for urban development projects, and three machine learning model performance evaluation as well as soil pollutant concentration distribution mapping were conducted. Here, nine soil pollutants were mapped to the metropolitan area of South Korea using the Random Forest model, which showed the best performance. The results of this study found that concentrations of Zn, F, and Cd were relatively concerned in Seoul, where urbanization is the most active. In addition, in the case of Hg and Cr6+, concentrations were detected below the standard, which was derived from a lack of pollutants such as industrial and industrial complexes that affect contents of heavy metals. A significant correlation between land cover and pollutants was inferred through the spatial distribution mapping of soil pollutants. Through this, it is expected that efficient soil management measures for minimizing soil pollution and planning decisions regarding the location of the project site can be established.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.243-252
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• 2003

Environmental Double Pile method was presented as a device to improve low permeable contaminated soil. EDP is one of the latest technology in a concept of one step process that is applied to low permeable contaminated ground to reutilize the site by enhancing drainage, contaminated remediation, bearing capacity of piles. In order to evaluate on-site applicability of this technology, qualities of EDP's drainage, strength and remediation were assessed through a series of experiments; EDP was verified to achieve remediation and improvement of soft ground.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Soil and Groundwater Environment Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.45-58
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• 2002

폐기물과 오염물질 투기로 인해 발생된 오염지의 복원은 1980년대 초반 미국이 본격적으로 시도하여 현장조사, 위해도 평가, 타당성 검토의 3단계를 거쳐 복원대책을 수립하는 정형이 이루어졌다. 이 정형에서는 먼저 현장조사로 오염상태에 대한 자료를 수집하고 위해도 평가로 오염도가 인체와 환경에 미치는 위해도를 정량화하며 타당성 검토에서 위해도를 제거하기 위한 각종대안을 검토하여 최종안을 선정한다. 이 과정 자체는 합리적이었으나 여러 가지 시행착오를 거치며 과잉대책이 남발되고 사업효과도 미흡하여 점차 예산낭비의 대표적인 사례로 비판이 제기되었다. 시행착오의 가장 큰 기술적 원인은 위해도 평가와 별개로 타당성 검토를 수행하며 비현실적인 완벽복원을 추구한 탓이며 이를 극복하려는 최적화 기법이 90년대 초반에 소개되었다. 이 최적화기법은 타당성 검토단계에서 각 대안의 잔류 위해도를 산정하고 해당대안의 비용과 비교하여 위해도를 허용수준으로 줄이는 최소비용 대안을 발견하는 방법이다. 이 최적화기법을 실제 프로젝트에 적용한 결과 복원대책 수행에 기대 이상의 비용절감을 이루고 정부의 수용도도 높았다. 특히 정비대책에 현장조건의 특성을 활용하는 창의적 대안을 도입하면 효과를 극대화 할 수 있는 바 두 가지 사례를 소개하였다. 앞으로 상당한 투자가 예상되는 폐광오염 문제에도 이 기법을 적용하면 비용과 효과를 최적화할 수 있을 것으로 기대되어 그 모델을 제시하였다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.39 no.5
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• pp.265-276
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• 2017

Heavy metals leaching from closed mines have been causing severe environmental problems in nearby soil ecosystems. Mine reclamation in Korea has been recently implemented based on the heavy metal immobilization (a.k.a., stabilization). Since the immobilization temporarily fixes the heavy metals to the soil matrix, the potential risk of heavy metal leaching still exists. Therefore the appropriate monitoring and the related policies are required to safeguard the soils, where all the cultivations occur. The current monitoring methods are based on either heavy metal concentration or simple toxicity test. Those methods, however, are fragmented and hence it is difficult to evaluate the site in an integrated manner. In this study, as the integrated approach, ecological functional state evaluation with a multivariate statistical tool was employed targeting physiochemical soil properties, heavy metal concentrations, microbial enzymatic activity, and arsenic respiratory reductase gene quantity. Total 60 soil samples obtained from three mines (Pungjeong, Jeomdong, Seosung) were analyzed. As a result, the stabilized layer soil and lower layer soil have shown the similar pattern in Pungjeong mine. In contrast, Jeomdong and Seosung mine have shown the similarity between the stabilized layer soil and the cover layer soil, indicating the possible contamination of the cover layer soil.

• Economic and Environmental Geology
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.61-72
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• 2004

The soil samples were collected from the paddy field near the mine tailing dumps in the abandoned Duckum mine in Korea. In the laboratory, the soil solution was extracted from the soil using centrifuge, and analysed for the chemical composition. Physical and chemical soil properties were also analysed. Kaolinite is the main clay minerals in the paddy soil and the CEC value is therefore relatively low. Nearly all soil samples show enrichment in their trace elemental concentrations(Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn) compared with natural background level. Some soil samples exceed the soil remediation intervention values for Cd, Pb and Zn and target value for Cu, when compared with Dutch standard, whereas As, Ni and Cr are in normal range. Lead concentrations in some samples near the mine tailing dumps also exceed the standard for remediation act for agricultural area set by Korean soil conservation law. The trace elemental concentrations are higher in the paddy soil nearer the mine tailing dumps and lower for the samples from distance. Similar trend with distance is found for the soil solution chemistry but the decrease with distance from the mine tailing dumps are sharper than the changes in soil chemistry. Cadmium, Cu and Pb concentrations in the soil solution are very low, ranging from a tenth and hundredths to a maximum of several mg/l, whereas their concentrations in soils are highly enriched for natural background. Most of the trace elements are thought to be either removed by reduced iron sulphides or iron oxides, depending on the redox changes. Geochemical equilibrium modelling indicate the presence of solubility controlling solid phases for Cd and Pb, whereas Zn and Cu might have been controlled by adsorption/desorption processes. Although pollutants migration through solution phase are thought to be limited by adsorption onto various Fe, Mn solid phases, the pollutants exist as easily releasable fractions such as exchangeable site. In this case, the paddy soil would act as pollutant pool, which will supply to plants in situ. whenever the geochemical conditions favour.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.1365-1369
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• 2009

최근 비점오염원 부하의 심각성이 알려지면서 4대강 유역을 중심으로 비점오염원의 조사 및 관리를 위한 대책 마련과 제도관 관리방안이 모색되고 있다. 이중 낙동강 유역은 총 면적 약 $23,384km^2$로 국토 전체 면적의 약 1/4을 차지하고 있지만 연평균 강수량은 1,186mm로 4대강 수계 중 가장 적어 갈수기에 자연 하천유량의 부족 및 유역외 지역에서의 공업용수 사용으로 낙동강하류의 유량감소를 초래하여 수질악화와 생태계 파괴가 심화되고 있는 상황에서 비점오염물질로 인해 그 피해가 가중되고 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 도시지역, 도로, 농경지, 토양침식물, 축사유출물, 대기강하물 등 광범위한 지역에서 강우 유출수와 함께 배출되는 비점오염물질을 처리하기 위하여 낙동강 수계내 대구 달성 소유역에 시범적으로 설치 운영중인 저감시설(CDS)의 수질 및 유량 모니터링 자료를 이용하여 대상유역의 강우-유출 특성 및 오염부하량 특성을 살펴보고, 전체유역의 유출발생량과 비점오염원 저감시설의 유입량 대비 처리 효율을 분석함으로써 오염부하량 발생 및 저감효율에 관한 연구를 수행하였다. 이를 위해 강우-유출 및 수질 모니터링 자료를 이용하여 모형(XP-SWMM)의 검보정을 실시하여 모델링 매개변수를 조정하였고, 강우-유출해석을 실시하여 대상유역의 년간 유출특성 및 비점 오염원 저감시설의 년간 오염부하량 저감율을 분석하였다.

• Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.60-69
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• 2007

Understanding the behavior of gas phase VOCs (volatile organic compounds) in unsaturated soils is of a great environmental importance for public health concerns. Moment analysis for the breakthrough curves (BTCs) during transport of chemicals in porous media was known to be a useful tool to evaluate the velocity, spreadness, and the skewness of the plume of the chemicals. In this study, the temporal moments of the BTCs of a group of VOCs were analyzed for the gaseous transport in an unsaturated soil. BTCs were measured using lab-scale column experiments for four different VOCs at the water saturation range of 0.04-0.46, and for eleven VOCs at a water saturation of 0.21. The central second and third moments of the VOCs were compared with the water saturation and the first moment. It was found that both central second and third moments increased with the first moment. The central third moment was, however, found to be more sensitive to the first moment.

• Proceedings of the Korean Environmental Sciences Society Conference
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• 1997.04a
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• pp.93-95
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• 1997

• Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.39-46
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• 2008

Due to the growth in industrialization, potential hazards in subsurface environments are becoming increasingly significant. The extraction of the contaminant from the soil and movement of the water are restricted due to the low permeability and adsorption characteristics of the reclaimed soils. There are a number of approaches to in-situ remediation that are used in contaminated sites for removing contaminants. These include soil flushing, dual phase extraction, and soil vapor extraction. Among these techniques, soil flushing was the focus of the investigation in this paper. Incorporated technique with PVDs has been used for dewatering from fine-grained soils for the purpose of ground improvement by means of prefabricated vertical drain systems. The laboratory model tests were performed by using the flushing tracer solutions for silty soils and recorded the tracer concentration changes with the elapsed time and flow rates. The modeling was intended to predict the effectiveness and time dependence of the remediation process. Modeling has been performed on the extraction, considering tracer concentration and laboratory model test characteristics. The computer model used herein are SEEP/W and CTRAN/W, this 2-D finite element program allows for modeling to determine hydraulic head and pore water pressure distribution, efficiency of remediation for the subsurface environment. It is concluded that the coefficient of permeability of contaminated soil is related with vertical velocity and extracted flow rate. The vertical velocity and extracted flow rate have an effect on dispersivity and finally are played an important role in-situ soil remediation.