Type: Field-scale remediation study
Location: Mississippi, USA
An abandoned wood-treatment facility provided the setting for a year-long field-scale investigation into heavily creosote-contaminated soil.
Researchers constructed biopiles and investigated several methods intended to encourage biodegradation, including forced aeration, addition of plant material and application of Cladosporium fungus.
This is useful historical work because it illustrates an important feature of real remediation: fungi are often investigated as one component of a larger biological and engineering treatment system, rather than as a stand-alone cure.
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Biopiling of creosote contaminated soil study