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Soil Monitoring
WHY is soil monitoring important?
Soil monitoring assesses, prevents or lessens the effects of substances that may
potentially harm soil or, water, air and organisms in contact with the soil.
Soil monitoring detects and evaluates possible substance release from industrial
and municipal facilities to soils and related environments as well as monitoring of
historical spills and leaks at plant sites.
Examples of contaminants that require monitoring include:
- toxic materials such as petroleum, heavy metals and polychlorinated biphenyls
- high levels of low toxicity petroleum products, elemental sulphur, and sodium salts
- materials that are mobile in the soil and may damage groundwater quality such as some
salts, organic solvents, acids, alkaline substances and amines (strong basic substances such as ammonia)
Soil Monitoring allows for proper decision making in the eventuality soil remediation
is necessary in order to bring soil conditions back to acceptable levels prior to
contamination.
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