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The increasing rate of soil pollution poses a prolific threat to the sustenance of the ecosystem. Acid mine drainage (AMD) is an environmental problem that has contributed immensely to soil pedogenesis and contamination associated with mining activities. Physical, chemical, and thermal methods of soil treatment have some rooms for improvement to meet remediation purposes. Contrary to other methods, bioremediation is a cost-effective and a sustainable biological approach that utilizes microorganisms for the remediation of a contaminated environment and does not recontaminate or further degrade the soil after application. This study aims to comparatively evaluate the application of wastewater and bioventing system for the the treatment of AMD contaminated soils. A microcosm containing 1 kg of contaminated soil was amended with wastewaters of varying (biostimulation (BSTa)) while bioventing treatment …