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Title: Treatability of Ninth Avenue Superfund Site ground-water. Final report

Abstract

The Ninth Avenue Superfund Site is located in Gary, IN, and has been listed on the US Environmental Protection Agency's National Priorities List since 1973. The site is a 17-acre (68,800-sq m) inactive chemical disposal area within a relatively undeveloped, low-lying area. Past disposal activities resulted in the contamination of the underlying groundwater, predominantly with ketones, benzenes, phenols, and chlorinated aliphatic compounds. Four technologies were evaluated on the bench scale for their ability to remove organic contaminants from a composite of groundwater samples collected from six site observation wells. These technologies were activated sludge (aerobic biotreatment), activated sludge with powdered activated carbon (PAC) addition, air stripping, and activated carbon. The results indicate that activated carbon does not have a high sorptive capacity for the site contaminants. Air stripping did not exhibit a high potential for efficiently removing the contaminants from the composite sample. However, activated sludge indicated potential for removing the site contaminants. The addition of PAC improved contaminant removal. Increased removals of chemical oxygen demand and total organic carbon from the composite sample with increased PAC dose were observed. Activated sludge and PAC/activated carbon were capable of removing all priority pollutants to concentrations at or below detection limits.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, MS (United States). Environmental Lab.
OSTI Identifier:
5465434
Report Number(s):
AD-A-235370/4/XAB; WES/MP/EL-91-8
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; BENZENE; MATERIALS RECOVERY; CHLORINATED ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBONS; GROUND WATER; CONTAMINATION; INDIANA; WATER POLLUTION; KETONES; PHENOLS; ACTIVATED CARBON; ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; REMEDIAL ACTION; SAMPLING; SITE SURVEYS; SUPERFUND; WASTE DISPOSAL; ADSORBENTS; AROMATICS; CARBON; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ELEMENTS; FEDERAL REGION V; HALOGENATED ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBONS; HYDROCARBONS; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; HYDROXY COMPOUNDS; LAWS; MANAGEMENT; NONMETALS; NORTH AMERICA; ORGANIC CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC HALOGEN COMPOUNDS; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; POLLUTION; POLLUTION LAWS; PROCESSING; RECOVERY; USA; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE PROCESSING; WATER; 540320* - Environment, Aquatic- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport- (1990-)

Citation Formats

Zappi, M E, Teeter, C, Fleming, E, and Francingues, N R. Treatability of Ninth Avenue Superfund Site ground-water. Final report. United States: N. p., 1991. Web.
Zappi, M E, Teeter, C, Fleming, E, & Francingues, N R. Treatability of Ninth Avenue Superfund Site ground-water. Final report. United States.
Zappi, M E, Teeter, C, Fleming, E, and Francingues, N R. 1991. "Treatability of Ninth Avenue Superfund Site ground-water. Final report". United States.
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abstractNote = {The Ninth Avenue Superfund Site is located in Gary, IN, and has been listed on the US Environmental Protection Agency's National Priorities List since 1973. The site is a 17-acre (68,800-sq m) inactive chemical disposal area within a relatively undeveloped, low-lying area. Past disposal activities resulted in the contamination of the underlying groundwater, predominantly with ketones, benzenes, phenols, and chlorinated aliphatic compounds. Four technologies were evaluated on the bench scale for their ability to remove organic contaminants from a composite of groundwater samples collected from six site observation wells. These technologies were activated sludge (aerobic biotreatment), activated sludge with powdered activated carbon (PAC) addition, air stripping, and activated carbon. The results indicate that activated carbon does not have a high sorptive capacity for the site contaminants. Air stripping did not exhibit a high potential for efficiently removing the contaminants from the composite sample. However, activated sludge indicated potential for removing the site contaminants. The addition of PAC improved contaminant removal. Increased removals of chemical oxygen demand and total organic carbon from the composite sample with increased PAC dose were observed. Activated sludge and PAC/activated carbon were capable of removing all priority pollutants to concentrations at or below detection limits.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Fri Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1991},
month = {Fri Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1991}
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