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Salt formations offer disposal alternative

Journal Article · · Hazmat World; (USA)
OSTI ID:6677254
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  1. IM-Tech Immobilization Technologes, Fairfield, TX (US)

This paper discusses how three U.S. firms are spending millions to permit and build underground disposal sites in salt formations. These companies claim salt is the ideal geological medium for holding hazardous wastes. Two Texas locations and one in Michigan have been targeted as future sites for hazardous waste disposal. The Michigan site, outside Detroit, is a former salt mine 2,000 feet beneath the Ford Motor Co. (Detroit) assembly works in Dearborn. Both Texas sites are atop salt domes---one east and one west of Houston.

OSTI ID:
6677254
Journal Information:
Hazmat World; (USA), Journal Name: Hazmat World; (USA) Vol. 3:6; ISSN HMWOE; ISSN 0898-5685
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English