Vapor distribution of trichloroethene and related compounds in soil gas above contaminated ground water at Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey

Conference · Thu Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1988 · Preprints of Papers Presented at National Meeting, Division of Water, Air and Waste Chemistry, American Chemical Society; (USA)

OSTI ID:7069660

Smith, J A ^[1]

---

1. Geological Survey, Trenton, NJ (USA)

From 1960 to 1981, wastewater from metal-plating operations was discharged into two unlined filtration pits adjacent to Building 24 at Picatinny Arsenal in Morris County, New Jersey. As a result, the unconfined, sand and gravel aquifer that underlies the site has been contaminated with several chlorinated organic compounds. The major component of the organic contamination is trichloroethene (TCE), although cis-1,2-dichloroethene (DCE) and tetrachloroethene (PCE) also have been identified in some water samples. Details of the ground-water contamination have been reported elsewhere. The goals of this study are to quantify the concentration of purgeable organic compounds in the soil gas above the main axis of the contaminant plume, and to investigate the effect of soil moisture content on the sorption of TCE vapor to soil.

• OSTI ID: 7069660
• Report Number(s): CONF-8809264--
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Preprints of Papers Presented at National Meeting, Division of Water, Air and Waste Chemistry, American Chemical Society; (USA) Journal Volume: 28:2
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
540120 -- Environment
Atmospheric-- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport-- (1990-)
540220* -- Environment
Terrestrial-- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport-- (1990-)
AIR POLLUTION
AIR-BIOSPHERE INTERACTIONS
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
CHLORINATED ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBONS
CHROMATOGRAPHY
CONTAMINATION
ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION
ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT
FEDERAL REGION II
FLUIDS
GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY
GASES
GROUND WATER
HALOGENATED ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBONS
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
LAND POLLUTION
MASS TRANSFER
MOISTURE
NEW JERSEY
NORTH AMERICA
ORGANIC CHLORINE COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC HALOGEN COMPOUNDS
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
POLLUTION
QUANTITATIVE CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
SEPARATION PROCESSES
SOILS
SORPTION
SORPTIVE PROPERTIES
SURFACE PROPERTIES
USA
VAPORS
WATER