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Disaster Advice Glossary
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Disaster recovery and restoration can be veiled in mystery to the many who have not undertaken specific training. This glossary explains technical terms to assist both report writing and the understanding of those technical terms so often misunderstood.
Definition
| Assimilative Capacity: |
The ability of air, water, or soil to effectively degrade, decompose or disperse chemical or biological substances. Mitigation Note: As in the case of sewage saturation in soil under a building, the rate of introduction of the sewage pollutants to the soil, may exceed the rate at which the soil can assimilate all of the sewage and effluent matter. Health Note: If the substructure soil cannot assimilate and decompose the sewage matter through bioaugmentation in situ, adverse health effects may occur to human health of the building occupants. |
| Bioaugmentation: |
The natural ability of soil or ground to biologically-augment its biodiversity, back to its normal background microflora over time. |
| Biodegradation: |
The metabolic breakdown of materials and their components into simpler components by other living organisms. Sometimes referred to as biodeterioration. See Bioaugmentation. |
| Non-Persistant Pollutant: |
A chemical or substance that can cause damage to organisms such as sewage bacteria in soil or attached ground, when added in excessive amounts to counteract the bacteria presence. The chemical or substance is allowed to degrade naturally through decay and bioaugmentation in situ, and they do not pose a health concern to the ground, ground water or human populations. Some chemical substances considered may include detergents and commercial peroxides. |
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