Hungary's experience: Soviet military leaves hazardous reminder in Central and Eastern Europe
Since the breakup of the former Soviet Union, thousands of abandoned Soviet military installations, including troop bases and airfields, have been returned to their host countries. These installations present serious, widespread environmental problems for the governments of Central and Eastern Europe. In the West, where approximately 130 military installations also are being realigned from military to civilian uses, similar environmental contamination problems exist. Expertise gained by US and Western European engineering firms at such sites may be applied to the cleanup of contaminated sites in Central and Eastern Europe. More than 1,000 former Soviet military installations exist in eastern Germany alone, with additional sites in Hungary, the Czech and Slovak Republics, and Poland. These sites pose critical contamination problems that will require a variety of remedial activities, including engineering, consulting, design and environmental assessment services; instrumentation and laboratory capabilities; groundwater and surface water treatment technologies; leaking underground storage tank (UST) removal and replacement techniques; mobile incinerators; and bioremediation and soil desorption technologies.
- OSTI ID:
- 5243076
- Journal Information:
- Hazmat World; (United States), Journal Name: Hazmat World; (United States) Vol. 7:2; ISSN HMWOED; ISSN 0898-5685
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Similar Records
Hungary in transition: Environmental, economic, and political realities
Uranium production in Eastern Europe and its environmental impact: A literature survey
Related Subjects
540220* -- Environment
Terrestrial-- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport-- (1990-)
540320 -- Environment
Aquatic-- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport-- (1990-)
ABANDONED SITES
CONTAMINATION
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
EASTERN EUROPE
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
EUROPE
GROUND WATER
HUNGARY
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
MILITARY FACILITIES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
POLLUTION
SOILS
SURFACE WATERS
WARFARE
WATER