Land reclamation is the restoration of the ecology of a contaminated surface, in other words, it is carrying out various measures that contribute to the restoration of the soil layer.
Land pollution
People constantly violate the land cover of our land in all ways: they carry out reclamation work, cut down forests, extract minerals, erect buildings and overload the surrounding territories with all kinds of garbage. In addition, we bury radioactive waste, poison the soil with pesticides and herbicides. How does the land remain fertile in such extreme conditions? To do this, you need to think about how to reanimate the soil and help it recover.
How to restore the earth
For this, land reclamation is necessary, which, with a competent approach, can bring tangible results. This is a rather complicated and expensive way to help nature recover after our intervention, but if this is not done, then we have every chance of extinction. Land reclamation consists of the following works:
- Design, laboratory chemical research and land mapping.
- Work related to the removal, transportation and storage of fertile land.
- Surface alignment.
- Application of the enriched layer.
- Purification from industrial waste.
- The introduction of useful fertilizers.
- Sowing phytomeliorative plants.
One of the main types of imbalance in the soil is pollution by mineralized waters. Reclamation of disturbed lands in such cases is carried out with special care, since it is necessary to clean, as a rule, a fairly large area. Poisoned waste falls into the soil and completely violates the ecological balance of nature.
The lands that some unscrupulous business leaders clog up with industrial waste will very quickly turn into a dead zone. Hardly anyone wants to live on such a land? The only way to restore it is land reclamation. Hundreds of scientists around the world are constantly working on this problem and quite successfully. If you strictly follow their recommendations, it is possible to restore our land.
Reclamation of disturbed lands is carried out not only on the “sick” lands themselves, but also on the territory surrounding them for better restoration of land resources. All victims collected after reclamation must be reliably preserved in sedimentation tanks, which must be constantly monitored to ensure complete environmental safety.
Remediation of oil contaminated land
Special restoration work must be carried out on oil-contaminated lands with an oil pipeline passing through them, where an emergency leak occurred, or in oil producing fields, as well as in enterprises engaged in oil distillation and its further processing. The process of land reclamation is to remove oil from the soil.
Oil pollution can be moderate or severe. With moderate pollution, soil self-cleaning is carried out using agrotechnical methods. The earth is loosened to great depths and fertilized. With severe pollution, reclamation of oil-contaminated lands is carried out by more complex methods. On these soils, special conditions are created to activate certain chemical processes that contribute to the elimination of pollution. Carrying out quick and high-quality cleaning of oil-contaminated lands, we will be able to provide protection for our land and we will use its wealth for centuries. Only a full range of measures related to land reclamation can give real results that will help us save a planet called Earth for our descendants.
