Technology development for the design of shallow land burial facilities at arid sites
The field research program involving technology development for arid shallow land burial (SLB) sites is described. Field tests of biointrusion barriers at waste disposal sites and in experimental plots at Los Alamos are reported. Results of completed and on-going experiments with migration barriers for water and contaminant movement are presented. An envelope wick experiment for subsurface water management is described, and preliminary field data are reported. An integrated field experiment was designed to test individual SLB component tests related to erosion control, biobarriers, and subsurface capillary and migration barriers, and the progress made in emplacing the experiment is presented. Efforts to utilize the field data collected to validate hydrologic models (TRACR3D) important to waste management strategies are also presented. 11 references, 14 figures, 1 table.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Soil Conservation Service, Tucson, AZ (USA). Southwest Rangeland Watershed Research Center
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- OSTI ID:
- 6242208
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-84-2893; CONF-8409115-4; ON: DE85002022
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 6. annual Low-Level Waste Management Program participants' information meeting, Denver, CO, USA, 11 Sep 1984
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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