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NATO/CCMS PILOT STUDY - EVALUATION OF DEMONSTRATED AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE TREATMENT OF CONTAMINATED LAND AND GROUNDWATER (PHASE III)
Citation:
U.S. EPA. NATO/CCMS PILOT STUDY - EVALUATION OF DEMONSTRATED AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE TREATMENT OF CONTAMINATED LAND AND GROUNDWATER (PHASE III). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/542/R-99/008, 1999.
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Description:
The Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established the Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society (CCMS) in 1969. CCMS was charged with developing meaningful programs to share information among countries on environmental and societal issues that complement other international endeavors and to provide leadership in solving specific problems of the human environment. A fundamental precept of CCMS involves the transfer of technological and scientific solutions among nations with similar environmental challenges.
The management of contaminated land and groundwater is a universal problem among industrialized countries, requiring the use of existing, emerging, innovative, and cost-effective technologies. This document provides a report on the special session on monitored natural attenuation (MNA) from the second meeting of the Phase III Pilot Study on the Evaluation of Demonstrated and Emerging Technologies for the Treatment and Clean Up of Contaminated Land and Groundwater. The United States is the lead country for the Pilot Study, and Germany and The Netherlands are the Co-Pilot countries. The first phase of the pilot study successfully concluded in 1991, and the results were published in three volumes. The second phase, which expanded to include newly emerging technologies, concluded in 1997. Final reports documenting 52 completed projects and the participation of 14 countries were published in June 1998. Through this pilot study, critical technical information is made available to participating countries and the
world community.
The Phase III study focuses on the technical approaches for treating contaminated land and groundwater. This includes issues of sustainability, environmental merit, and cost-effectiveness, in addition to continued emphasis on emerging remediation technologies. The objectives of the study are to critically evaluate technologies, promote the appropriate use of technologies, use information technology systems to disseminate the products, and to foster innovative thinking in the area of contaminated land.
The first meeting of the Phase III study was held in Vienna, Austria, on February 23-27, 1998. The meeting included a special technical session on treatment walls and permeable reactive barriers. The proceedings of the meeting and of the special technical session were published in May 1998.
The second meeting of the Phase III Pilot Study convened in Angers, France, on May 9-14, 1999, with representatives of 18 countries attending. Ten of the participating countries presented 15 projects. These projects were discussed and commented on by experts. Five new projects were also proposed and selected for inclusion in the study. A special technical session on monitored natural attenuation was held and is the focus of this report. The general proceedings of the 1999 annual meeting are available in a companion publication.
This publication is the report from the special session on monitored natural attenuation. This session was chaired by Fran Kremer, Ph.D. of the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency and Anja Sinke, Ph.D. from the Dutch TNO Institute of Environmental Science. This report contains the papers presented at the MNA session and recommendations developed by the co-chairs.
This and many of the Pilot Study reports are available online at http://www.nato.int/ccms/. General information on the NATO/CCMS Pilot Study may be obtained from the country representatives listed at the end of the report. Further information on the MNA report can be obtained from the specific authors.