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EVALUATION OF PNEUMATIC FRACTURING FOR REMEDIATION OF ROCK MASSES
Citation:
Frank*, U, J M. Perdek*, AND J. Schuring. EVALUATION OF PNEUMATIC FRACTURING FOR REMEDIATION OF ROCK MASSES. ISBN 10 # 0784400156, Chapter 17, Inyang, H.I. and Bruell, C.J. (ed.), Remediation in Rock Masses. American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Reston, VA, , 237-250, (2000).
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EPA established the SITE Program in 1986 to promote the development and use of innovative technologies to clean up Sueprfund sites across the country. Now in its fourteenth year, the SITE program is helping provide the treatment technologies necessary to implement new Federal and state cleanup standards aimed at permanent remedies rather than quick fixes. The SITE Program is composed of four elements: the Demonstration Program, the Emerging Technologies program, the Monitoring and Measurement Technologies program, and the Technology Transfer program. This paper describes two projects, one performed uinder the Demonstration program and one under the Emerging Technologies project. The Demonstration program evaluated pneumatic fracturing and soil vapor extraction and the Emerging Technologies project was a pneumatic fracturing and bioremediation study. Together, these processes are potentially applicable to the in situ remediation of a significant number of organic contaminants in rock masses.
