Phytoremediation Mechanisms of a Creosote-Contaminated Site

In 1990, creosote contamination was discovered at the location of a railroad tie treatment facility active in the 1950s until 1973. In 1997, a phytoremediation field study was implemented with the planting of 1,026 hybrid poplar trees and 36 cells of vegetated and unvegetated grass and legume treat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Robinson, Sandra Lynn
Other Authors: Civil Engineering
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42806
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05292001-145229/