Source: OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY submitted to
BENEFICIAL REUSE OF RESIDUALS AND RECLAIMED WATER: IMPACT ON SOIL ECOSYSTEM AND HUMAN HEALTH (FORMERLY W2170)
Sponsoring Institution
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Project Status
TERMINATED
Funding Source
HATCH
Reporting Frequency
Annual
Accession No.
1006017
Grant No.
(N/A)
Project No.
OHO01361-MRF
Proposal No.
(N/A)
Multistate No.
W-3170
Program Code
(N/A)
Project Start Date
Apr 8, 2015
Project End Date
Sep 30, 2019
Grant Year
(N/A)
Project Director
Basta, N.
Recipient Organization
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
1680 MADISON AVENUE
WOOSTER,OH 44691
Performing Department
School of Natural Resources
Non Technical Summary
Recycling of residual by-products requires practical scientific knowledge to determine if and how the residual constituents can be beneficially reused without impairing the environment (soil, water, and air quality), plants grown on the amended soils, or humans and animals that consume such food, feed, and water impacted by land application. There is increasing evidence that land application of a variety of residuals may provide agronomic and environmental benefits that were either not previously well understood and/or that are critical to addressing emerging environmental issues associated with climate change. The results of such research will provide information for continuing risk assessment needed for updating the USEPA Part 503 Rule for land-application of biosolids and for developing regulations at the state level for land-based recycling of residuals and reclaimed water. Additional research will address the field and watershed scale effects on soil quality, plant drought response, soil carbon sequestration, water quality, greenhouse gas emissions, and climate change impacts associated with soil-based reuse of residuals and reclaimed water. In addition, research will explore the potential for biosolids products to be used in urban areas including urban agriculture, urban restoration, and stormwater infrastructures such as green roofs, urban green space.
Animal Health Component
0%
Research Effort Categories
Basic
30%
Applied
60%
Developmental
10%
Classification

Knowledge Area (KA)Subject of Investigation (SOI)Field of Science (FOS)Percent
1010110101030%
1020120115025%
4030210200025%
7112499204020%
Knowledge Area
403 - Waste Disposal, Recycling, and Reuse; 102 - Soil, Plant, Water, Nutrient Relationships; 711 - Ensure Food Products Free of Harmful Chemicals, Including Residues from Agricultural and Other Sources; 101 - Appraisal of Soil Resources;

Subject Of Investigation
0120 - Land; 0110 - Soil; 0210 - Water resources; 2499 - Plant research, general;

Field Of Science
2040 - Mineralogy; 1010 - Nutrition and metabolism; 2000 - Chemistry; 1150 - Toxicology;
Goals / Objectives
Evaluate the short- and long-term chemistry and bioavailability of nutrients, potentially toxic inorganic trace elements, and pharmaceuticals and personal care products (TOrCs) in residuals, reclaimed water, and amended soils in order to assess the environmental and health risk-based effects of their application at a watershed scale. Specific tasks: (i) To develop and evaluate in vitro (including chemical speciation) and novel in vivo methods to correlate human and ecological health responses with risk-based bioavailability of trace elements and TOrCs in residuals and residual-treated soils. (ii) Predict the long-term bioavailability and toxicity of trace elements and TOrCs in residual-amended urban, agricultural and contaminated soils. (iii) Evaluate long-term effects of residuals application and reclaimed wastewater irrigation on fate and transport of nutrients, trace elements, TOrCs, and emergence/spread of antibiotic resistance in high application rate systems. (iv) Evaluate plant uptake and ecological effects of potentially toxic trace elements and TOrCs from soils amended with residuals and reclaimed wastewater. Evaluate the uses and associated agronomic and environmental benefits for residuals in agricultural and urban systems. Specific tasks: (i) Evaluate the ability of in situ treatment of contaminated soil with residuals to reduce chemical contaminant bioavailability and toxicity. (ii) Determine the climate change impacts of organic residuals end use options (i.e., C sequestration, N2O emissions). (iii) Quantify sustainability impacts such as water quality (reduced N impairment) and quantity benefits (increased plant available water, increased drought tolerance) and soil quality improvements associated with a range of organic residuals end uses. (iv) Explore the potential for waste by-products to be used in urban areas including urban agriculture, stormwater infrastructure, green roofs, and in urban green space. (v)Evaluate ecosystem services of degraded urban soils amended with residuals. (vi) Use tools such as life cycle assessment to understand and compare the impacts of a range of residuals end use/disposal options.
Project Methods
Short- and long-term chemistry and bioavailability of nutrients and potentially toxic inorganic trace elements, nano particles, and pharmaceuticals and personal care products (TOrCs) in residuals, reclaimed water, and amended soils will be studied in order to assess the environmental and health risk-based effects of their application at a watershed scale.Specific tasks:To develop and evaluate in vitro (including chemical speciation) and novel in vivo methods to correlate human and ecological health responses with risk-based bioavailability of trace elements in residuals and residual-treated soils.Predict the long-term bioavailability and toxicity of trace elements and TOrCs in residual-amended urban, agricultural and contaminated soils.Evaluate long-term effects of residuals application and reclaimed wastewater irrigation on fate and transport of nutrients, trace elements, TOrCs, and emergence/spread of antibiotic resistance in high application rate systems.

Progress 04/08/15 to 09/30/19

Outputs
Target Audience:State and federal agencies, regional and national stakeholder groups, and scientific communityassociated with beneficial land application of biosolids and other municipal, agricultural and industrial byproducts Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Training for laborartory and field research staff How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?The results of our research were presented to the U.S. Congress in the 2019 Congressional Soil Caucus sponsored by the Soil Science Soc. of America. I met with legislative US Congressional aides for Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), Rep. Marsha Fudge (D-Ohio), Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Senator Robert Portman (R-Ohio). What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? Nothing Reported

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? The deindustrialization of historical industrial cities has left a legacy of contaminated vacant lots which require remediation and redevelopment. A disproportionate number of urban lots are lead (Pb) contaminated near inner-city neighborhoods where individuals, especially children, have a higher probability of exposure to contaminants, creating an environmental justice issue. The main barrier to soil remediation is the cost to remove and replace contaminated soils which exceeds hundreds of millions of dollars. Our research showed inexpensive soil amendments, such as yard fertilizer and composts, is an acceptable remediation method to detoxify lead. Soil amendments were able to greatly reduce lead in garden crops and from inhalation and ingestion of dust by children. Inexpensive treatments of yards with soil amendments removes the cost barrier to addressing lead contamination in old industrial cities.

Publications

  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Basta, Nicholas T. 2018. Chemistry, Bioavailability, Fate and Transport of Heavy Metals in Field Soils. Conference on Connections between Soil Health and Human Health. Silver Spring, MD. Oct. 16-17, 2018
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Basta, N.T. 2019. Cleaning up lead and other dirty issues in soil for community health on a budget. Soil Science Society of America 2019 Congressional Soil Caucus Briefings, Longworth House Office Building, Washington, DC, June 14, 2019.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Wade, J., S. W. Culman, S. Sharma, M. Mann, M. S. Demyan, K. L. Mercer, and N. T. Basta. 2019. How Does Phosphorus Restriction Impact Soil Health Parameters in Midwestern CornSoybean Systems?. Agron. J. doi:10.2134/agronj2018.11.0739


Progress 10/01/17 to 09/30/18

Outputs
Target Audience:academic communities from land grant universities and national/international conferences. Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?training of graduate students How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?yes. Mostly to the academic community at the 19th International Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment held in Athens, Georgia on July 21-25, 2018. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Evaluate new inexpensive byproducts for remediation of Pb contaminated soil in Cleveland.

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? Progress under objective 1(i) Using the total Pb content of a soil to assess the risk contaminated sites pose to wildlife tends to overestimate risk, whereas using bioavailable Pb in ecological risk assessment (ERA) would be more accurate and could reduce cleanup costs. Birds are one of themost sensitive ecological receptors in ERA. However, there isn't a means to evauate the ability bioavailability of ingested Pb to birds. To fill this important risk assessment gap, we developed anew inexpensive lab method designed to simulate avian (i.e., bird) digestion which could be used to provide a value for reduced bioavailability of Pb in ERA for risk assessors. Our lab method was able to predict actual Pb uptake from diets by a feeding study of Japanese quail (Courtnix japonica).Such an inexpensive method is badly needed to access contaminants in land by ecological risk assessors. The result will be reduction of digging a hauling soil that may not pose risk on brownfield or superfund land. Hundreds of milllions of dollars of savings can result by reducing unnecessary cleanup of land. Zearley, Alyssa M., Nicholas T. Basta, G. Matthew Davies, Milton S. González-Serrano, Rufus L. Chaney, and W. Nelson Beyer. 2018. Incorporating Diet into In Vitro Methods to Improve Prediction of Lead Bioaccessibility in Wildlife Impacts. 19th International Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment, Athens, Georgia July 21-25, 2018. Profgress under object 2 (iv): Revitalization and reuse of vacant land in the U.S. presents opportunities and challenges. Lead contamination is a serious health crisis in old metropolitan areas. For example, >20% of 0 to 60 month old children in Cleveland have excessive blood lead levels (EBLL) of > 5 ug/dL compared to the State of Ohio average of 3% EBLL. The devastating effects of blood lead on mental development are well known. The most significant source of lead exposure to children is from historical lead-based paint. In this study, the ability of a commerically avaiable hosue paint Ecobond® LBP Lead Defender®, to remediate Pb paint was determined. Extractability and bioaccessibility tests used to predict relative bioavailability of Pb via human soil ingestion and dust inhalation pathways were evaluated.Ecobond® LBP Lead Defender® highly significantlyreduced risk fassociated with ingestion of lead paint dust by86%. Paint treatment was a very effective method of reducing Pb human exposure and risk associated with Pb based paint. Nicholas Basta, Shane Whitacre, James M. Barthel, Trevor Schwab. 2018. Boaccessibility and Extractability of Ecobond® LBP Lead Defender® Treated Lead Based Paint 19th International Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment, Athens, Georgia July 21-25, 2018.

Publications

  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Brooke N. Stevens, Aaron R. Betts, Bradley W. Miller, Kirk G. Scheckel, Richard H. Anderson, Karen D. Bradham, Stan W. Casteel, David J. Thomas, and Nicholas T. Basta. 2018. Arsenic Speciation of Contaminated Soils/Solid Wastes and Relative Oral Bioavailability in Swine and Mice. Soil Syst. 2:1-13.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Basta, Nicholas T. 2018. Bioavailability: Advances in Science and Implementation for Adjusting Human and Ecological Exposure. 19th International Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment, Athens, Georgia July 21-25, 2018.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Zearley, Alyssa M., Nicholas T. Basta, G. Matthew Davies, Milton S. Gonz�lez-Serrano, Rufus L. Chaney, and W. Nelson Beyer. 2018. Incorporating Diet into In Vitro Methods to Improve Prediction of Lead Bioaccessibility in Wildlife Impacts. 19th International Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment, Athens, Georgia July 21-25, 2018.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Nicholas Basta, Shane Whitacre, James M. Barthel, Trevor Schwab. 2018. Boaccessibility and Extractability of Ecobond� LBP Lead Defender� Treated Lead Based Paint 19th International Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment, Athens, Georgia July 21-25, 2018.
  • Type: Theses/Dissertations Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Alyssa, M. Zearley. 2018. Incorporating Diet into In Vitro Bioaccessibility Assays to Improve Prediction of Bioavailability of Soil Pb in Birds and Humans. The Ohio State University, Columbus. OH.
  • Type: Websites Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Interstate Technology and Regulatory Council (ITRC). 2017. Bioavailability of in contaminants in soil: Considerations for Human Health Risk Assessment. BCS-1. Washington, D.C. Interstate Technology and Regulatory Council, Bioavailability in Contaminated Soil Team. http://bcs-1.itrcweb.org


Progress 10/01/16 to 09/30/17

Outputs
Target Audience:(1) academic community via peer reviewed publications and presentations at scientific meetings, (2) general public and natural resource professionals in the private and government sectors and NGOs. Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Training of 2 undergraduate students and 1 graduate student How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?They have via of publications and presentation at scientific meeting. Next year our group will increase info to groups via an interactive site describe in the next section What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Dr. Basta is the USDA MRF W3170 and Ohio representative for the Interstate Regulatory Council (ITRC) of the "Bioavailailbity in Contaminated Soils Group". Through ITRC, results from W3170 will be disseminated to the communiites of interest through an interactive website for training regulators and risk assessors nationwide. The Interstate Technology and Regulatory Council (ITRC) is a public-private coalition working to reduce barriers to the use of innovative air, water, waste, and remediation environmental technologies and processes. ITRC produces documents and training that broaden and deepen technical knowledge and expedite quality regulatory decision making while protecting human health and the environment.With public and private sector members from all 50 states and the District of Columbia, ITRC truly provides a national perspective. conducted by the which will produce training on "BioavailailWe will be tesblends for restoring urban blighted / contaminated areasWe will be providing guidelines for state regulators including Ohio EPA to assess and restore urban soils using soil amendments. This will be done as part of a national effort to produce a Research for Objective 2 will be performed including use of newly development bioavailability tests to evaluate inexpensive soil blends used to remediation contaminated soil --mainly in urban areas.

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? Arsenic is one of the most common contaminants of concern exceeding risk criteria because soil ingestion is the primary human health risk driver at many urban, military, U.S. Brownfields and CERCLA sites with As-soil contaminated . Use of contaminant total content instead of bioavailability is often overly conservative and can result in costly and unnecessary soil remedial action. We completed the following two large research projects that determined the ability of in vitro bioaccessible methods to predict relative bioavailable As in contaminated soils. Mechanisms and Permanence of Sequestered Pb and As in Soils: Impact on Human Bioavailability. N.T. Basta (PI), Dr. Kirk G. Scheckel, USEPA NRMRL; Dr. Philip M. Jardine, Dr. Chris W. Schadt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Dr. Karen Bradham, USEPA NERL; Dr. David J. Thomas, USEPA NHREEL; Dr. Brooke Stevens, OSU; Dr. Richard Hunter Anderson, USAF; Dr. Rufus L. Chaney, USDA ARS. Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) Relative Bioavailability of arsenic in soils from mine scarred lands. V.L. Hanley, P. Meyers, California Dept. of Toxic Substances Control (PI); N.T.Basta; S. Casteel, Univ. of Missouri; C. Kim, Chapman Univ., A. Foster, USGS Menlo Park, CA; Dr. Charles Alpers, USGS. U.S. EPA Brownfields Training, Research and Technical Assistance Grant. Both of these studies were comprehensive evaluations of the ability of different in vitro bioaccessibility (IVBA) methods to predict RBA As. The following conclusions are: Total soil As concentration was not correlated with RBA As determined by the adult mouse (r2 = 0.24) or the juvenile swine (r2 = 0.09) bioassays. In general, all of the IVBA methods were predictive of RBA for both the mice and swine bioassays. IVBA As from the gastric extraction is a better predictor than IVBA As from the intestinal extraction. Using the GE may also provide more conservative RBA As because the IVBA values are greater for the GE than for the IE (i.e. the As is more soluble) representation a worst case scenario for the estimating As RBA for soil ingestion. Recently concluded research has shown California Bioaccessibility (CAB) method is an accurate predictor of swine RBA As for soils with high oxide content and soil As concentrations <1,200 mg As/kg, including soils 1 and 2 for which USEPA Method 1340 and OSU IVG under predicted RBA As. Our research team developed a new method, the California Bioaccessibility (CAB) method to provide a conservative estimate of RBA As on mining sites soils in California.

Publications

  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Whitacre, Shane D., Nicholas T. Basta, Brooke N. Stevens, Valerie Hanley, Richard H. Anderson, and Kirk G. Scheckel. 2017. Modification of an Existing In vitro Method to Predict Relative Bioavailable Arsenic in Soils. Chemosphere 180:545-552.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Beyer, Nelson, W., Nicholas T. Basta, Rufus Chaney, Paula F. P. Henry, Thomas May, David Mosby, Barnett A. Rattner, Kirk G. Scheckel, Daniel Sprague. Bioaccessibility tests accurately estimate bioavailability of lead to quail. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 35: 23112319, 2016.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Basta, N.T., D.M. Busalacchi, L.S. Hundal, K. Kumar, R.P. Dick, R.P. Lanno, J. Carlson, A.E. Cox, and T.C. Granato. 2016. Restoring ecosystem function in degraded urban soil using biosolids, biosolids blend and compost. Special Issue: Soil in the City. J. Environ. Qual. 45(1): 74-83.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Basta, N.T. 2016. Tailoring Soil Blends for Chemical Restoration of Urban Soils. Soil Science Society of America International Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ. Nov. 6-9, 2016.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Obrycki, John F, and Nicholas T. Basta. 2016. Limitations for Contaminated Soil Management Implementation. Soil Science Society of America International Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ. Nov. 6-9, 2016.
  • Type: Theses/Dissertations Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Benson, Kaitlyn Suzanne. 2017. M.S. Thesis. Assessment of Soil Quality Parameters of Long-Term Biosolids Amended Urban Soils and Dredge Blends. The Ohio State University, Columbus. OH.


Progress 10/01/15 to 09/30/16

Outputs
Target Audience:(1) academic community via peer reviewed publications and presentations at scientific meetings, (2) general public and natural resource professionals in the private and government sectors and NGOs. Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Training of 1 undergraduate honors student and 2 graduate students How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Our multistate group was a major contributor to one of the first comprehensive urban agricultural textbooks "Sowing Seeds in the City." Dr. Sally Brown, one of the editors, is a very active W3170 member from Univ of Washington. Our chapter in the textbook is cited below. This textbook is having great impact /use by the urban agriculture community Obrycki J.F., K.K. Minca, and N.T. Basta. 2016. Screening for Soil Lead Contamination Using a Common Soil Test Method. In Sowing Seeds in the City: Municipal and Ecological Considerations (S. Brown, K. McIvor and E. Snyder (eds.), Springer, NY. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?We will be providing guidelines for making soil blends for restoring urban blighted / contaminated areas. The blends will be made of local residuals including dredge, foundry sand, water treatment plant residuals, compost and/or biosolids

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? Nothing to report for Objective 1 Accomplishments for Objective 2 Developing management recommendations for lead contaminated urban soils is necessary to address public questions regarding best practices for using urban soils for food and recreation. Adding phosphates to lead-contaminated soils offers one management technique for reducing risk of exposure of children to soil lead. Lead contaminated soils (790 to 1,300 mg Pb kg-1) from a garden and a city lot in Cleveland, OH were incubated in a bench scale experiment for 1 year. Six phosphate amendments including bone meal (BM), fish bone (FB), poultry litter (PL), monoammonium phosphate (MAP), diammonium phosphate (DAP), and triple super phosphate (TSP) were added to pots at two application rates. Six phosphate amendments showed mixed results on their ability to reduce soil lead bioaccessibility (IVBA Pb) and exposure risk to children. Soil amendments were largely ineffective in reducing IVBA Pb in these two urban soils when using EPA Method 1340. However, P-treatments were much more effective when evaluated using modifications of EPA Method 1340. The greatest reductions in IVBA Pb were found at pH 2.5. Reductions in bioaccessible Pb from soil treatment ranged from 5-26% for the pH 2.5 extractions. A modified EPA Method 1340 that does not contain glycine and uses pH 2.5 rather than 1.5 has potential to predict efficacy of P soil amendments to reduce bioaccessible and bioavailable Pb.

Publications

  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Awaiting Publication Year Published: 2016 Citation: Obrycki, John F, Nicholas T. Basta, Robyn S. Wilson Evaluating public and regulatory acceptance for urban soil management approaches. J. Environ. Qual. In Press.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Awaiting Publication Year Published: 2016 Citation: Obrycki, John F., Darryl B. Hood, Tyler Serafini, Chris Alexander, Pam Blais, Nicholas T. Basta. Public health data contextualizes soil Pb hazard management in Ohio. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. In Press
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Awaiting Publication Year Published: 2016 Citation: Obrycki, John F, Kirk G. Scheckel, and Nicholas T. Basta. In press. Soil solution interactions may limit Pb remediation using P amendments in an urban soil. Environ Pollut. In Press
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Yuqin Jiao, Julie K. Bower, Wansoo Im, Nicholas Basta, John Obrycki, Mohammad Z. Al-Hamdan, Allison Wilder, Claire Bollinger, Tongwen , Zhang, Ludie Hatten, Jerrie Hatten, Darryl B. Hood. 2015. Development of Educational PPGIS Risk-Communication Tools and Application to Evaluating Urban Soils. In Proceedings from the 2015 Minority Health and Health Disparities Grantees' Conference, as a Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH). J. Community Medicine. http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/13/1/11.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Basta, N.T., S. D. Whitacre, Brooke Stevens , R. Anderson, P. Myers and V.L. Hanley. 2016. Predicting arsenic bioavailability in contaminated soils by using in vitro gastrointestinal bioaccessibility for site-specific risk assessment. 18th International Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment, Ghent, Belgium Sept 12-15, 2016.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Stevens, Brooke, S. Whitacre, K. Bradham, D. Thomas, S. Casteel, R. Anderson, and N. Basta. 2016. Comparison of Bioavailability Measurements determined using Juvenile Swine and Adult Mouse Models for Arsenic Contaminated Soils. 18th International Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment, Ghent, Belgium Sept 12-15, 2016.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Whitacre, Shane, Brooke Stevens, Valerie Hanley Perry Myers, Andrea Foster, and Nick Basta. 2016. Independent Measures for More Confident Selection and Application of Arsenic Bioaccessibility Methods to Predict Bioavailability. 18th International Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment, Ghent, Belgium Sept 12-15, 2016.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Whitacre, S.W., B.N Stevens, V.L. Mitchell, P. Myers and N.T. Basta. 2016. Predicting Arsenic Bioavailability in Moderately Contaminated Soils. 18th International Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment, Ghent, Belgium Sept 12-15, 2016.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Stevens, Brooke, A. Betts, K. Scheckel , S. Whitacre, R. Anderson, K. Bradham, D. Thomas and N. Basta. Comprehensive evaulation of in vitro bioaccessibility methods to predict bioavailability of arsenic in contaminated soils. 2016. 18th International Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment, Ghent, Belgium Sept 12-15, 2016.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Basta, N.T., Brooke Stevens, S. D. Whitacre, K.G. Scheckel, A. Betts, K.D. Bradham, C. Schadt, D. Thomas, S. W. Casteel, R. Chaney, A. Juhasz and R. Anderson. 2016. Mechanisms and Permanence of Sequestered Pb and As in Soils: Impact on Mobility and Bioavailability. 18th International Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment, Ghent, Belgium Sept 12-15, 2016.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Basta, N.T. Using Bioavailability and Bioaccessibility for Risk Assessment and Remediation of Upland Soils. U.S. EPA Ecological Risk Assessment Forum Annual Meeting, Chicago IL June 7  9, 2016
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Basta, N.T. Restoring Ecosystem Services in Degraded Urban Soils Using Biosolids and Soil Amendment Blends, Illinois Water Environment Association Annual Conference Champaign, IL. February 29, 2016
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Basta, N.T., S.D. Whitacre, V. Kecojevic, A. Lashgari, and B.T. Lusk. 2016. Dust Characterization and Source Apportionment at an Active Surface Mine in West Virginia. Annual Meeting of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Phoenix, AZ. Feb. 21-24, 2016.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Basta, N.T. 2015. Restoring ecosystem function in degraded urban soil using biosolids, biosolids blend and compost. Ohio Water Environment Association, 2015 Biosolids Specialty Workshop. Columbus, OH Dec. 3, 2015.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Betts, Aaron R., Brooke Stevens, Nicholas T. Basta, and Kirk G Scheckel. 2015. Correlating arsenic (As) and iron (Fe) speciation to as bioavailability from a collection of contaminated soils with varying contamination sources and soil properties. Presentation 262-6. ASA, CSSA, and Soil Science Society International Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN Nov. 15-18, 2015.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Obrycki, John F. and Nicholas T. Basta. 2015. Beneficial Use of Sediments in Soil Blends to Cap and Remediate Contaminated Urban Soils. Presentation 86-11. ASA, CSSA, and Soil Science Society International Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN Nov. 15-18, 2015.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Obrycki, John F. and Nicholas T. Basta. 2015. Managing Pb Contaminated Urban Soils Using Low Rates of P Amendments. Presentation 325-5. ASA, CSSA, and Soil Science Society International Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN Nov. 15-18, 2015.
  • Type: Theses/Dissertations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Stevens, Brooke Nan. 2016. Ph.D. Dissertation. Bioaccessibility, Bioavailability, and Chemical Speciation of Arsenic in Contaminated Soils and Solid Wastes. The Ohio State University, Columbus. OH.
  • Type: Theses/Dissertations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Obrycki, John Francis. 2016. Ph.D. Dissertation. Managing Soils for Environmental Science and Public Health Applications. The Ohio State University, Columbus. OH.
  • Type: Theses/Dissertations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Basta, Nicholas, Brooke Stevens, Shane Whitacre, Kirk Scheckel, Aaron Betts, Karen Bradham, David Thomas, and. Chris Schadt. 2016. Mechanisms and Permanence of Sequestered Pb and As in Soils: Impact on Human Bioavailability. 2016. SERDP Project ER-1742, Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program, Alexandria, VA.


Progress 04/08/15 to 09/30/15

Outputs
Target Audience:Scientific organizations through publications and professional meetings, USEPA, OEPA, USGS, ODNR, and general public Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Training of 1 undergraduate and 1 graduate student How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest? Nothing Reported What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?We are developing a system to make "manufactured soil" to restore soil health and quality in degraded urban soils (ie brownfields, urban lots)

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? Objective 1: Methods to measure the bioavailability of lead and arsenic in urban contaminated soils were studied and are close to being validated Objective 2: The agronomic and environmental benefits for residuals (biosolids and compost) for ecosystem restoration of degraded soil was published.

Publications

  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Awaiting Publication Year Published: 2015 Citation: Basta, N.T., D.M. Busalacchi, L.S. Hundal, K. Kumar, R.P. Dick, R.P. Lanno, J. Carlson, A.E. Cox, and T.C. Granato. 2015. Restoring ecosystem function in degraded urban soil using biosolids, biosolids blend and compost. J. Environ. Qual. Special Issue: Soil in the City. In press
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Awaiting Publication Year Published: 2015 Citation: Obrycki, John F., Nicholas T. Basta, Kirk Scheckel, Albert Juhasz, Brooke N. Stevens, and Kristen K. Minca. Phosphorus amendment efficacy on soil Pb depends upon bioaccessible method conditions. J. Environ. Qual. Special Issue: Soil in the City. In press
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Heather Henry , Marisa F. Naujokas , Chammi Attanayake , Nicholas T. Basta , Zhongqi Cheng, Ganga M. Hettiarachchi , Mark Maddaloni , Christopher Schadt , and Kirk G. Scheckel. 2015. Bioavailability-based in situ remediation to meet future lead (Pb) standards in urban soils and gardens. Environ. Sci. Technol. 49 (15), pp 89488958.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Li, Jie, Kan Li, Xin-Yi Cui, N.T. Basta, Li-Ping Li, Hong-Bo Li, and L.Q. Ma. 2015. In vitro bioaccessibility and in vivo relative bioavailability in 12 contaminated soils: Method comparison and method development. Science of the Total Environment. 532:812-820.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Under Review Year Published: 2015 Citation: W. Nelson Beyer, Nicholas T. Basta, Rufus Chaney, Paula F. P. Henry, Thomas May, David Mosby, Barnett A. Rattner, Kirk G. Scheckel, Daniel Sprague. Bioaccessibility tests accurately estimate bioavailability of lead to quail. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. In review
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Basta, N.T. 2015. Key Scientific Principles for Selecting a Bioaccessibility Method to Evaluate Bioavailability and In Situ Soil Treatment Performance in Metal(oid) Contaminated Soil. Interstate Technology Regulatory Council Spring Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA., Apr. 20-21, 2015.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Carlson, J., J. Saxena, N. Basta, L. HUndal, D. Busalacchi. 2015. Application of organic amendments to restore degraded soil: effects on microbial properties. Environ. Monit. Assess 187(3):1-15.