Re: Re:Contaminated soil.......

**"Jack Hale" j*@knoxparks.org**

Reminds me of my trip to the Pacific Northwest this summer.  The scientists who
have been studying the recovery of the area around Mt. St. Helens for the past
25 years feel they have developed some really good ideas on how to reclaim strip
mines and other places that have been reduced to minerals only.  Nothing like a
whopping natural disaster to get the creative juices flowing.

Jack N. Hale
Executive Director
Knox Parks Foundation
75 Laurel Street
Hartford, CT 06106
860/951-7694 x11
f860/951-7244

-----Original Message-----
From: "David King" [learninggardenmaster@yahoo.com]
Date: 09/22/2005 09:18 PM

Interesting - now we will begin to build a body of
folk-data about what plants will grow in contaminated
soil - along the same lines as to what weeds growing
in a field tell about the nutrients in that soil (or
lack of nutrients).  We already have some
folk-evidence that point towards plants that are
effacious on certain contaminants - it's a shame that
we'll need to build this body of information, but I
believe we, those who till the land, will HAVE to be
the ones to do it.  

I'll put it on my calendar for Wednesday next.  You?

david

--- "Libby J. Goldstein" <

> > Friends,
> >
> > Key to all of this will be knowing what cocktail
> of toxins pollutes 
> > each
> > particular stretch of Katrina flooded land.  The
> chemical, 
> > bio-chemical work on
> > identifying what will remain as the floods recede
> is pretty daunting.
> >
> Well, we already know that EPA is not going to give
> anyone that 
> information. They haven't even been testing for
> petrochemicals. So is 
> there anything we or folk that we know can do about
> getting the 
> information?
> 
> Libby
> 
> 
>
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