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Waste containment: Soil-bentonite slurry walls. Remedial Action Tech data sheet

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6526036

Slurry walls are subsurface, low-permeability barriers that have been widely used since the 1940s to control groundwater flow. Slurry walls have been used extensively in civil engineering applications such as construction area dewatering and dam construction. More recent applications of slurry walls have been in the areas of waste site remediation and pollution control. In these applications, slurry walls have been used to redirect groundwater away from or around a waste site, contain a contaminated groundwater plume, and generally control the potential for contaminant migration through soil and groundwater.

Research Organization:
Naval Energy and Environmental Support Activity, Port Hueneme, CA (United States)
OSTI ID:
6526036
Report Number(s):
PB-93-182947/XAB; NEESA--20.2-051.1
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English