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Pilot Study on Demonstration of Remedial Action Technologies for Contaminated Land and Groundwater Volumes 1 and 2 EPA/600/SR-93/012
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BARKLEY, N. Pilot Study on Demonstration of Remedial Action Technologies for Contaminated Land and Groundwater Volumes 1 and 2 EPA/600/SR-93/012. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/SR-93/012, 1993.
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This two-volume report presents information on a 5-yr pilot study (1986- 1991) sponsored by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society (CCMS) entitled "Demonstration of Remedial Action Technologies for Contaminated Land and Groundwater." Volume 1 discusses the findings, conclusions, and recommendations produced by the study—a study proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in May 1986 and accepted by NATO member countries in November 1986. Volume 2, in two parts, contains the appendices: The final Project Reports, NATO's CCMS final Fellow Reports, invited expert speaker contributions, representatives discussions of their country's national regulatory and research and development programs and other overview topics, detailed information on specific case studies, and a listing of all participants. The study's purpose was to identify and evaluate innovative, emerging, and alternative remediation technologies and to transfer technical performance and economic information to potential users. Twenty-nine remediation technology projects that treat, recycle, separate, or concentrate contaminants in soil, sludges, and groundwater were examined. The seven technology areas studied were chemical treatment of contaminated soils, microbial treatment, physical/chemical extraction, pump and treat groundwater, soil vapor extraction, stabilization/solidification, and thermal treatment. The detailed CCMS report of the findings, conclusions, and recommendations is intended to serve as a reference to the state-of-the-technologies examined by the participants and as a guide to the potential application of different technologies to various types of soil and groundwater contamination. Conclusions from the study reveal both the strengths and weaknesses of current technologies and identify efforts needed to increase their application and effectiveness. This Project Summary was developed by EPA's Risk Reduction Engineering Laboratory, Cincinnati, OH, to announce key findings of this CCMS Pilot Study that is fully documented in a separate report (Volume 1) and in two appendices (Volume 2) of the same title.