Reply #14: Its not as simple as planting food crops in the land of the bull dozed structures

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Sadly, there are high levels of contamination in the soils of the city. I would love to see plants used as a means to remediate the soils in the city. Plants can be used effectively to stabilize or remove heavy metals from soils and breakdown organic contaminants. Many contaminants would be removed or reduced after several generations of planting.

This would be a great first step; however, I would not eat fruits or vegetables that were grown in city plots right now. Obviously, one could use raised plots with "imported" soils, but this is an expensive proposition.


http://www.academicjournals.org/ijps/PDF/pdf2010/Feb/Opeolu%20et%20al.pdf
http://www.pakbs.org/pjbot/PDFs/42(1)/PJB42(1)291.pdf