Ithaca Community Gardens Soil Testing 2018
Publications about healthy soil from the Cornell Waste Management Institute
- Soil Contaminants & Best Practices for Healthy Gardens Practical Tips!
- Sources & Impacts of Contaminants in Soils
- Guide to Soil Testing & Interpreting Results
- Soil lead (Pb) and urban grown lettuce: Sources, processes, and implications for gardener best management practices (Russell-Anelli, McBride 5/15/21)
2018 testing details
- ICG Soil Sampling June 2018_Summary Report
- ICG Soil Sampling June 2018_Plot map with PAH exceedances
- ICG Soil Sampling June 2018_All Results
’08 ’09 testing details
- Healthy Soils, Healthy Communities Shayler & Kalbacker’s 2010 Powerpoint presentation
- Soil and plant tissue testing report
- Contaminants in Soils: Data Collection, Interpreting Test Results, and Minimizing Exposure” View this review sheet to understand the following map.
- Gardens map of soil lead content
- Ithaca Gardens test data
- More about the “Healthy Soils, Healthy Communities” project
Learn more about PAH evaluation (Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons)
- Urban Gardening: Managing the Risks of Contaminated Soil From Environmental Health Perspectives • volume 121 | number 11-12 | November-December 2013.
- Soil Contaminants in Community Gardens From People and Plants, a multimedia series published by the University of Wisconsin-Extension, Cooperative Extension.
- Federal information on PAHs
- PAH study done in Madison, WI Eighty-one pages; contains info on the broad picture of testing comparatively – relevant for background context [see Ch. 24, pg. 26 of report (pg 40 of pdf)], and an extensive literature search on historical sources and urban background levels of PAHs.