Expedited Site Characterization: A rapid, cost-effective process for preremedial site characterization
Argonne National Laboratory has developed a unique, cost- and time-effective, technically innovative process for preremedial site characterization, referred to as Expedited Site Characterization (ESC). The cost of the ESC field sampling process ranges from 1/10 to 1/5 of the cost of traditional site characterization. The time required for this ESC field activity is approximately 1/30 of that for current methods. Argonne`s preremedial site investigations based on this approach have been accepted by the appropriate regulatory agencies. The ESC process is flexible and neither site nor contaminant dependent. The process has been successfully tested and applied in site investigations of multiple contaminated landfills in New Mexico (for the US Department of the Interior`s Bureau of Land Management [BLM]) and at former grain storage facilities in Nebraska and Kansas, contaminated with carbon tetrachloride (for the Department of Agriculture`s Commodity Credit Corporation [CCC/USDA]). A working demonstration of this process was sponsored by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Technology Development as a model of the methodology needed to accelerate site characterizations at DOE facilities. This report describes the application of the process in New Mexico, Nebraska and Kansas.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab., IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States); Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC (United States); New Mexico State Government, Santa Fe, NM (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-31109-ENG-38
- OSTI ID:
- 10104559
- Report Number(s):
- ANL/ER/CP--80564; CONF-9311122--1; ON: DE94002910; CNN: Agreement YA651-IA9-340002; Agreement 04 P2-92-USDA-CCC
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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