Re: Dioxins and Plants

["Anita Davies" <adavies@louisberger.com>]

My suggestion would be to contact Jerry Schnoor at the University of 
Iowa, professor of phytoremediation:
Jerry Schnoor
CGRER, 202 IATL
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242
jschnoor@cgrer.uiowa.edu

I recently met him at the Brownfield's 97' conference in September. 
He may have heard of this research.

Anita Davies
Louis Berger & Associates Environmental Engineering Division
30 Vreeland Road
Florham Park, NJ 07932
adavies@louisberger.com

Date:          Wed, 28 Jan 1998 19:20:11 -0500 (EST)
Reply-to:      cwac@mail.execpc.com
From:          "Rebecca Leighton Katers" <cwac@mail.execpc.com>
To:            Multiple recipients of list <dioxin-l@essential.org>
Subject:       Re: Dioxins and Plants

I heard snippets of a report a few years ago on 
National Public Radio regarding a possible new 
soil clean-up method using carrots.

They claimed that several crops of carrots would 
remove PCB contamination from surrounding soil.
(I don't know what they did with the carrots 
afterwards.)   Presumably this might work with 
Dioxins and other contaminants.

This report made me worry about the marketing of 
root crops grown on any soil landspread with 
sewage or pulp mill wastes, or soils contaminated 
in other ways.

I've been asking around ever since, trying to 
track down the source of this research.    Has 
anyone heard of it or something like it?  NPR 
couldn't figure out which program they aired on 
this issue.



Rebecca Leighton Katers
Clean Water Action Council of N.E. Wisconsin
East Port Center
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Green Bay, WI 54302
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