Adapting Advances in Remediation Science to Long-Term Surveillance
- S.M. Stoller Corporation
Several facets of groundwater remediation stand to gain from the advances made during recent years in disciplines that contribute to remediation science. Engineered remedies designed to aggressively remove subsurface contamination should benefit from this progress, and more passive cleanup methods and the long-term monitoring of such passive approaches may benefit equally well if not more. The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management (LM) has adopted a strategic plan that is designed to take advantage of technological improvements in the monitoring and assessment of both active and passive groundwater remedies. Flexible adaptation of new technologies, as they become available, to long-term surveillance at LM sites is expected to reduce site stewardship costs while ensuring the future protection of human health and the environment. Some of the technologies are expected to come from government initiatives that focus on the needs of subsurface monitoring. Additional progress in monitoring science will likely result from continual improvements in our understanding of contaminant fate-and-transport processes in the groundwater and the vadose zone.
- Research Organization:
- S.M. Stoller Corporation
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Legacy Management (LM)
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC01-GJ79491
- OSTI ID:
- 1132777
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/LM-WM-Conf-2006-Peterson
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Waste Management 2006 Conference, Tucson, AZ, February 26 - March 2, 2006
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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