characteristics of leakage pollution of longpan road gas station and its enlightenment摘要龙盘路加油站泄漏污染的特点及其启示.pdfVIP

Journal of Environmental Protection, 2012, 3, 49-54 /10.4236/jep.2012.31006 Published Online January 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/jep) Characteristics of Leakage Pollution of Longpan Road Gas Station and Its Enlightenment Yuehua Jiang, Yun Li, Xiaojun Kang, Quanping Zhou, Xun Zhou, Yiping Zhu Nanjing Center, China Geological Survey, Nanjing, China. Email: jiangyuehua01@ Received October 10th, 2011; revised November 16th, 2011; accepted December 17th, 2011 ABSTRACT Geological penetrating radar combined with drilling and chemical analysis has been applied to investigate leakage pol- lution of Longpan Road gas station in Nanjing, China. The results indicate that radar images show strong reflection anomalies along the northeast to the gas station, characterized by contaminants or contaminant plumes spreading down- stream and below. The drilling results confirmed the contents of monocyclic and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons contained in the layers of fine sands ranging from 0.60 m to 6.0 m beneath the surface mostly exceed Chinese standard severely, such as toluene and isobutylbenzene with high content at 2738 μg/kg and 64,505 μg/kg, respectively. There- fore, it is considered that geological penetrating radar can be employed to investigate leakage contamination of gas sta- tions, and remediation and administration should be conducted in the polluted soil layers and aquifers. Keywords: Gas Stations; Leakage Contamination; Geological Penetrating Radar; Nanjing 1. Introduction environment [3,4]. Therefore, it is necessary and impor- tant to carry out studies, such as application of GRP, on Gas stations have been the major contamination sources leakage contamination from underground gasoline tanks of groundwa