Trial site, Woburn, England, United Kingdom
Woburn Experimental Farm, sludge-treated plots
Experimental plots of Rothamsted's Woburn farm, enriched with zinc, copper and cadmium by decades of sewage sludge.
Contaminants
Plants and fungi at this site
PhytoremediationField scale, 1998–2000
Noccaea caerulescens (Thlaspi caerulescens), Arabidopsis halleri
McGrath, Lombi, Zhao and colleagues (Rothamsted Research) field-tested two hyperaccumulators with mobilising agents, different sowing strategies and growing seasons of different length.
Outcome No mobilising agent raised accumulation. On average, between 1998 and 2000, Thlaspi removed 1.3% of total soil cadmium and 0.3% of zinc; in one 14-month season, 21.7% of the cadmium and 4.4% of the zinc. The authors judge the technique usable for soils moderately contaminated with cadmium, not for zinc.
From the literature
Species that acted on one of this site's contaminants in at least one study. The list is automatic and takes no account of this site's soil, concentrations or climate.
Plants
- Arabidopsis halleriHaller's rockcressEvidence: field
- Noccaea caerulescensAlpine pennycressEvidence: field
- Populus albaWhite poplarEvidence: field
- Salix capreaGoat willowEvidence: field
- Salix viminalisBasket willow, common osierEvidence: field
- Sedum plumbizincicolaSedum plumbizincicolaEvidence: field
Fungi
- Rhizophagus irregularisEvidence: greenhouse
- Paxillus involutusBrown roll-rimEvidence: greenhouse
- Aspergillus nigerBlack mouldEvidence: laboratory
- Suillus luteusSlippery jackEvidence: laboratory
- Oidiodendron maiusEvidence: laboratory
- Agaricus bisporusButton mushroomEvidence: laboratory
The rest are on the contaminant pages.
Nearby
Notable case, England (Northamptonshire), United Kingdom
Corby (steelworks reclamation)
54 km
Notable case, England (Bristol), United Kingdom
Avonmouth zinc smelter
154 km
- Chemical warfare agents (mustard, arsenicals)
Notable case, Hauts-de-France (Pas-de-Calais), France
Metaleurop Nord (Noyelles-Godault)
306 km
Phytoremediation
Notable case, Seascale, United Kingdom
Sellafield
330 km
- Plutonium
- Caesium-137
- Iodine-131
- Uranium
Sources
- McGrath et al., Field evaluation of Cd and Zn phytoextraction potential by the hyperaccumulators Thlaspi caerulescens and Arabidopsis halleri, Environmental Pollution, 2006
- Field evaluation of Cd and Zn phytoextraction potential (Rothamsted Repository record), repository.rothamsted.ac.uk, 2006
Draft compiled from public sources, not yet reviewed.