Relationships Between Hybrid Poplar Tree Extractives and Ground Water Contamination at a Phytoremediation Site
<p> In 1997, a phytoremediation program began at a creosote-contaminated former railroad tie yard in Oneida, Tennessee with the planting of over 1000 hybrid poplar trees onsite. Creosote, a mixture of hazardous chemicals composed of 85% polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) had entered the s...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31583 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-03312003-130512/ |