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3.2. Processing and consolidation of information
Information obtained during field observation and laboratory study within the framework of pilot
project Phase 1 was consolidated for the surveyed areas of infrastructure elements:
settlement of Nagurskoe - area of industrial and construction dumps (area 1);
Severnaya Bay - area of fuel and lubricant storage facility (area 2) and territory of the
abandoned polar station (area 3);
abandoned air-defense station territory and commandant's office (area 4) and area of the
radar station (area 5).
Based on the results of the additional survey with geodetic tie of the elements according to data
from the global positioning system (WGS-84 Coordinate System) the element s records and
electronic situational maps of the areas were created in 1:1000 scale with indicated sources of
hazardous pollution (industrial, construction and domestic waste dumps, accumulations of scrap
metal, stacks and accumulations of drums for oil products, PCB-containing equipment, etc.)
Processing of on soil and ground pollution included the determination of extreme and calculation of
average values for specific pollution parameters, calculation of total content of compunds belonging
to the same group (pollutants). Recalculation of mass concentration of the general quality indicators
into MPC, APC, PC and IL (using international criteria of environmental assessment of soil and
ground pollution), the calculation of values of complex factors and definition of qualitative
characteristics used to assess level (degree) of pollution according to regulatory documents
Statistical processing, analysis of spatial distribution of pollution and mapping of data were carried
out using the following software: MS Excel XP, Surface Mapping System 8.0 and GIS MapInfo
Professional 8.0.
In preparing the schematic maps of the location of the actual material, electronic blank maps were
used as topographic base prepared on the basis of topographic maps of scale 1:50 000 and color
synthesized, transformed and linked to reference points of high resolution satellite images (pixel
size is 60, WGS-84 Coordinate System). Information bound to coordinates was displayed on a
schematic map as a separate vector layers. Editing, final design and printing or maps was made in
the GIS package MapInfo Professional 9.0.
Electronic blank maps of Alexandra Island also were a topographic base of situational plans of the
surveyed areas. According to the level of revealed sites the following layers were creates on the
maps displaying:
areas littered metal drums (less and more than 10-20 drums per ha);
littered areas (logs, planks, metal structures).
buildings and structures of technical and general purposes;
tanks and cisterns for fuel and lubricant;
gantries with established cisterns with fuel and lubricant;
stacks of 200-L drums with fuel and lubricant;
accumulations of drums;
radar stations;
vehicles (tracked, wheeled vehicles, trailers, semitrailers);
aircrafts,
FINAL REPORT for Contract No. CS-NPA-Arctic-13/2009 of December 01, 2009 within the framework of pilot project Development of
Technology of clean up of the area of Decommissioned Sites of The Russian Federation Ministry of Defense in the Arctic by the
Example of Alexandra Island of Franz Josef Land Archipelago from Hazardous Waste
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