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Contamination by toxic substance of soil and groundwater originating ina great earthquake disaster

Research Project

Project/Area Number 08455241
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Civil and environmental engineering
Research InstitutionKYOTO UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

YONEDA Minoru  Kyoto University, Faculty of Engineering, Instructor, 工学研究科, 助手 (40182852)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) HORIUCHI Masato  Daido Institute of Technology, Faclty of Construction Engineering, Associate Professor, 建設工学科, 助教授 (00157059)
MORISAWA Shinsuke  Kyoto University, Faculty of Engineering, Professor, 工学研究科, 教授 (50026340)
Project Period (FY) 1996 – 1998
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1998)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,700,000)
Fiscal Year 1998: ¥1,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000)
Fiscal Year 1997: ¥1,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000)
Fiscal Year 1996: ¥1,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000)
Keywordsfire / heavy metal / the Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake / chemical fallout / soil contamination / field investigation / correlation analysis / temporally change / 震災影響 / 主成分分析 / フイールド調査
Research Abstract

The possibility of heavy metal contamination of urban park soils caused by a big fire originating in the Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake was examined. The behavior of heavy metals in park soil of the stricken area and the change in time of sorption forms of heavy metals were studied with various extraction methods. The following conclusions were obtained :
1. Some heavy metals temporally changed their sorption forms from exchangeable forms to hydrochloric acid extraction forms, and finally to the forms unextractable even by nitric acid.
2. Zn and Sb were nominated for the element spread during the earthquake disaster, because they showed high concentration in soil in the Nagata district where the influence of the big fire was significant. The highest concentrations of Zn and Sb were some times larger than those in Kyoto or Yokohama respectively. Some of the other heavy metals showed another possibility of their contamination by the normal urban activities.
3. The correlation coefficients of the couples of elements, I.e. Cr-Cu, Cr-Pb, Mn-Co, Co-Cu, Co-Zn, Co-Pb Cu-Cd, and Cu-Pb, showed temporally decreasing trends, however, those of the couples of Mn-Cu, Mn-Zn, Mn-Cd, and Mn-Pb showed temporally increasing trends. This meant that the slow repartitioning of those metals in soil caused the changes of correlation coefficients of them. The cluster analyses also showed this possibility clearly.
4. The results of this study could be compared to the reported investigation results about air and rain.

Report

(4 results)
  • 1998 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1997 Annual Research Report
  • 1996 Annual Research Report

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Published: 1996-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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