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URBAN
SOIL
P R E S E N T E D BY : S A A D FA R O O Q I , C # 0 1B S S E M E S T E R : 6 T H
D E PA RT M E N T O F E N V I R O N M E N TAL & C O N S E R VAT I O N S C I E N C E SU N I V E R S I T Y O F S WAT
05/03/2023
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URBAN SOIL
• Urban soils created by process of urbanization.
• Highly disturbed land soil.
• Human activities modified natural landscape.
• Urbanization also contributes unique amendments and contaminants to the urban
soil.
• Bockheim (1974) gives an appropriate and useful definition of urban soil:
• “A soil material having a non-agricultural, man-made surface layer more than 50
cm thick, that has been produced by mixing, filling, or by contamination of land
surfaces in urban and suburban areas.”
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CHARACTERISTICS OF URBAN SOIL• Vertical and spatial variability
• Modified structure (compaction)
• Surface crust on bare soil (hydrophobic)
• Presence of anthropogenic materials, contaminants
• Modified temperature regimes
• Elevated pH
• Restricted aeration and drainage
• Interrupted nutrient cycling
• Modified biological community
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VERTICAL AND SPATIAL VARIABILITY
• Changes abruptly at one or more levels in the profile (lithologic
discontinuity) due to stripping, filling, mixing, etc.
• Cumulative effects of historical uses: agriculture, roadways,
buildings, utility lines, digging, filling, leveling, organic
additions.
• Backfilled topsoil often from another site.
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STRUCTURE AND COMPACTION
• Natural processes tend toward aggregation and lower bulk density
• Soil manipulation breaks aggregates apart and increases bulk density
• Disrupted organic matter cycle poor structure and low biological activity
• Disrupted freeze-thaw cycles
• High salt content encourages dispersion
• Little vegetative cover bare soil erosion
• Anthropogenic compaction
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SURFACE CRUSTING• Deposition of petroleum-based aerosols and particulates water-repellant compounds
• Bare soil exposure to raindrops disintegration of surface aggregates
• Reduced infiltration and gas exchange
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AERATION AND DRAINAGE• Disrupted continuity (walls, sidewalks, curbs, pipe shafts, streets, foundations, grade
changes) damming, ponding
• Impermeable covers (asphalt, concrete) slow wetting and drying
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SOIL TEMPERATURE
• Heat loading: incoming radiation absorbed and re-radiated by buildings and
streets; low vegetative cover so most reaches soil
• heat
• - day and night air temperature (0.5-1.5C)
-10-20% wind speed
-2-10% relative humidity
-5-10% clouds and total rainfall
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ORGANIC MATTER• Low inputs (leaves and litter cleared away)
• Low biological activity
• Few or no earthworms
• Results in fertility
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• Concentration of a substance in soil above background levels; may exceed
toxicity threshold
• Deliberate dumping or application, storage, wet or dry deposition, transport
from overland flow, remnant materials
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SOLIDS• Paper, glass, metals, plastic, masonry, brick, concrete, asphalt, processed wood
• Potential sources of contaminants (e.g., Cu, Zn, B, Pb)
• Plastics: decomposition can release toxic compounds or harmful gases
• Iron & steel: release iron to form new compounds (e.g. insoluble iron phosphate)
Liquids• Industrial wastes• Sewage effluents• Sludges• Industrial washwater• Runoff
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GASES• Landfills: methane, CO2 (plus traces of CO, ethane, HS, NH3, ethylene,
propylene, hydrogen cyanide) displace atmospheric gases (incl. O2) and alter
redox status in the overlying soil
• Gasoline leaks
• Buried industrial wastes
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HEAVY METALS• Atmospheric deposition of metallic aerosols from fossil fuel combustion,
power plants, industrial processes.
• Absorbed by plants and soil organisms
• Persistent; slow leaching from the soil
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WHY DO WE CARE?• Contaminants: contact with polluted soil through recreation (children especially
vulnerable), urban gardening programs (food chain), volatilization
• Street trees and green spaces: plant health may be severely restricted
• Soil is largely a non-renewable resource; as larger and larger areas become urbanized we
need to find ways to maintain good soil condition
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HEALTH IMPLICATIONS• Exposure to industrial contaminants is linked to health effects such as asthma,
stillbirths, miscarriages, neurological disease, and cancer
• Effects on domestic animals, wildlife and fish
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