Environmental Geology of Urban Areas

Edited by: Nicholas Eyles, 608 pp., 1997

This volume contains 39 chapters, written by 67 contributors who are well-know experts in their field. Ten themes examine
environmental geology issues in Canada's urban areas, such as contamination of ground and surface waters, pollution and
erosion of urban waterfronts, waste disposal, contaminated substrates, geological hazards, public health issues, remediation of
contaminated sites, investigative techniques, and environmental assessment legislation. It is primarily intended for senior
undergraduates and graduate students. Many of the papers are state-of-the-art summaries and will be essential reading for
professional environmental geologists already working in urban areas. It is hoped that the lay reader, urban planner and
business person can also learn something of the environmental geology problems associated with Canada's urban areas. An
extensive glossary of commonly used terms is included.

CONTENTS:

Preface

PART I ENVIORNMENTAL GEOLOGY OF URBAN AREAS

1.     Environmental Geology of Urban Areas
           Nicholas Eyles
2.    Environmental Geology of a Supercity: The Greater Toronto Area
            Nicholas Eyles
3.     Living on Ice: Problems of Urban Development in Canada's North
            Hugh M. French

PART II URBAN GROUND WATERS: SOURCES OF CONTAMINATION

4.     Impacts of Urban Development on Ground Water
            Ken W.F. Howard
5.     Contaminant Source Audits and Ground-water Quality Assessment
            Ken W.F. Howard and Stephen Livingstone
6.     Chlorinated Solvents in Urban Ground Waters
            Stanley Feenstra
7.     Hydrocarbon Fuels in Urban Ground Waters and Soils
            Jean-Pierre Francois and Hugh Molyneux
8.     Contamination of Urban Ground Water by Road de-icing Chemicals
            Ken W.F. Howard and Janet Haynes

PART III URBAN GROUND WATERS: RESOURCE EVALUATION AND PROTECTION

9.     The Oak Ridges Moraine of Southern Ontario: A Ground-water Resource at Risk
            Ken W.F. Howard, Nicholas Eyles, Philip J. Smart, Joseph I. Boyce,
            Richard E. Gerber, Sean L. Salvatori and Michael Doughty
10.    Ground-water Recharge to the Oak Ridges Moraine
            Richard E. Gerber and Ken W.F. Howard
11.    Managing Ground-water Resources Using Wellhead Protection Programs
            Stephen Livingstone, Thomas Franz and Nilson Guiguer

PART IV SURFACE-WATER CONTAMINATION IN URBAN AREAS

12.    Constructed Wetlands for Remediation of Urban Waste Waters
            Miron Berezowsky
13.    Basic Mine Drainage in the Montauban Area, Quebec
            Andree M. Bolduc, Marc R. Lafleche and Lucie Talbot
14.    Acid Mine Drainage in the Sudbury Area, Ontario
            Nelson Belzile, Douglas Goldsack, Stephanie Maki and Andrew McDonald

PART V URBAN WATERFRONTS

15.    Contaminated Sediment in Urban Great Lakes Waterfronts
            John P. Coakley and Alena Mudroch
16.    Mapping Contaminated Sediment in Hamilton Harbour, Ontario
            J. ken Versteeg, William A. Morris and Norman A. Rukavina
17.    Environmental Geology of Hamifax Harbour, Nova Scotia
            Gordon B.J. Fader and Dale E. Buckley
18.    Management of the Scarborough Bluffs Shoreline of Lake Ontario
            Robert B. Nairn and Nigel B. Cowie
19.    Environmental Geology of the Fraser Delta, Vancouver
            Bruce S. Hart and J. Vaughn Barrie

PART VI URBAN WASTE MANAGEMENT

20.    Geology and Urban Waste Management in Southern Ontario
            Nicholas Eyles and Joseph I. Boyce
21.    Waste Disposal in Toronto's Past
            Richard Anderson
22.    Hydrogeology of the Edmonton Landfill, Alberta
            Laurence D. Andriashek, David G. Thomson and Reed Jackson
23.    Engineered Waste Disposal Facilities
            Kerry Rowe and Michael J. Fraser
24.    Leachate from Landfills Along the Niagara Escarpment
            Jean Birks and Carolyn H. Eyles
25.    Isotopic and Geochemical Characterization of Landfill Methane
            Steven Desrocher and Barbara Sherwood Lollar

PART VII CONTAMINATED SUBSTRATES IN URBAN AREAS

26.    Contaminant Geochemistry of Urban Sediments and Soils
            Kim A. Bolton and Les J. Evans
27.    Public Health and Urban Soil Contamination
            Monica Campbell, Joan Campbell, Stephen McKenna, Scott MacRitchie and Miriam Diamond

PART VIII URBAN GEOLOGICAL HAZARDS

28.    Radon in Urban Environments
            Imshun Je
29.    Earthquake Hazard in the Greater Toronto Area
            Alex A. Mohajer
30.    Earthquake Hazard in the Greater Vancouver Area
            John J. Clague

PART IX SITE INVESTIGATION, REMEDIATION AND DATA MANAGEMENT

31.    Geophysical Techniques in Urban Areas
            John E. Scaife
32.    Shallow Seismic Reflection Profiling of Waste Disposal Sites
            Joseph I. Boyce and Berkant B. Koseoglu
33.    Urban Geophysics in the Kitchener-Waterloo Region, Ontario
            George W. Schneider, David C. Nobes, Michael A. Lockhard and John P. Greenhouse
34.    Site Assessment Using Soil Gas Surveys
            Iqbal Noor
35.    Ground-water and Soil Remediation Techniques
            Paul Beck
36.    On-site Ex-Situ Bioremediation of Petroleum-Contaminated Soils
            Paul J. Hubley, Andrew W. Panko and Doug W. Boocock
37.    Geoscientific Information Systems for Environmental Geology
            Nicholas Eyles, Michael Doughty and Derek Mack-Mumford
38.    Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing Techniques in Environmental Assessment
            Frank M. Kenny

PART X ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT LEGISLATION

39.    Environmental Law and Assessment
            Carolyn H. Eyles
 

APPENDIX A: A GEOLOGIC TIMESCALE

APPENDIX B: GLOSSARY

APPENDIX C: UNITS OF MEASUREMENT

INDEX