X-231B technology demonstration for in situ treatment of contaminated soil: Contaminant characterization and three dimensional spatial modeling
Abstract
Fine-textured soils and sediments contaminated by trichloroethylene (TCE) and other chlorinated organics present a serious environmental restoration challenge at US Department of Energy (DOE) sites. DOE and Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc. initiated a research and demonstration project at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The goal of the project was to demonstrate a process for closure and environmental restoration of the X-231B Solid Waste Management Unit at the DOE Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant. The X-231B Unit was used from 1976 to 1983 as a land disposal site for waste oils and solvents. Silt and clay deposits beneath the unit were contaminated with volatile organic compounds and low levels of radioactive substances. The shallow groundwater was also contaminated, and some contaminants were at levels well above drinking water standards. This document begins with a summary of the subsurface physical and contaminant characteristics obtained from investigative studies conducted at the X-231B Unit prior to January 1992 (Sect. 2). This is then followed by a description of the sample collection and analysis methods used during the baseline sampling conducted in January 1992 (Sect. 3). The results of this sampling event were used to develop spatial models for VOC contaminant distribution within the X-231B Unit.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 10119221
- Report Number(s):
- ORNL/TM-12258
ON: DE94006112; TRN: 94:011921
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-84OR21400
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: DN: Environmental Sciences Division Publication No. 4170; PBD: Nov 1993
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; 12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; SOILS; REMEDIAL ACTION; SAMPLING; GROUND WATER; DECONTAMINATION; PORTSMOUTH GASEOUS DIFFUSION PLANT; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; VOLATILE MATTER; CHLORINATED ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBONS; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; OFF-GAS SYSTEMS; LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; 054000; 052002; HEALTH AND SAFETY; WASTE DISPOSAL AND STORAGE
Citation Formats
West, O R, Siegrist, R L, Mitchell, T J, Pickering, D A, Muhr, C A, Greene, D W, and Jenkins, R A. X-231B technology demonstration for in situ treatment of contaminated soil: Contaminant characterization and three dimensional spatial modeling. United States: N. p., 1993.
Web. doi:10.2172/10119221.
West, O R, Siegrist, R L, Mitchell, T J, Pickering, D A, Muhr, C A, Greene, D W, & Jenkins, R A. X-231B technology demonstration for in situ treatment of contaminated soil: Contaminant characterization and three dimensional spatial modeling. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/10119221
West, O R, Siegrist, R L, Mitchell, T J, Pickering, D A, Muhr, C A, Greene, D W, and Jenkins, R A. 1993.
"X-231B technology demonstration for in situ treatment of contaminated soil: Contaminant characterization and three dimensional spatial modeling". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/10119221. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/10119221.
@article{osti_10119221,
title = {X-231B technology demonstration for in situ treatment of contaminated soil: Contaminant characterization and three dimensional spatial modeling},
author = {West, O R and Siegrist, R L and Mitchell, T J and Pickering, D A and Muhr, C A and Greene, D W and Jenkins, R A},
abstractNote = {Fine-textured soils and sediments contaminated by trichloroethylene (TCE) and other chlorinated organics present a serious environmental restoration challenge at US Department of Energy (DOE) sites. DOE and Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc. initiated a research and demonstration project at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The goal of the project was to demonstrate a process for closure and environmental restoration of the X-231B Solid Waste Management Unit at the DOE Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant. The X-231B Unit was used from 1976 to 1983 as a land disposal site for waste oils and solvents. Silt and clay deposits beneath the unit were contaminated with volatile organic compounds and low levels of radioactive substances. The shallow groundwater was also contaminated, and some contaminants were at levels well above drinking water standards. This document begins with a summary of the subsurface physical and contaminant characteristics obtained from investigative studies conducted at the X-231B Unit prior to January 1992 (Sect. 2). This is then followed by a description of the sample collection and analysis methods used during the baseline sampling conducted in January 1992 (Sect. 3). The results of this sampling event were used to develop spatial models for VOC contaminant distribution within the X-231B Unit.},
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year = {Mon Nov 01 00:00:00 EST 1993},
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