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BIOREMEDIATION FIELD INITIATIVE SITE PROFILE: ESCAMBIA WOOD PRESERVING SITE - BROOKHAVEN
Citation:
GLASER, J. A. AND R. C. BRENNER. BIOREMEDIATION FIELD INITIATIVE SITE PROFILE: ESCAMBIA WOOD PRESERVING SITE - BROOKHAVEN. EPA/540/F-93/510g, 1993.
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The Escambia Wood Preserving Site—Brookhaven in Brookhaven, Mississippi, is a former wood preserving facility that used pentachlo- rophenol (PCP) and creosote to treat wooden poles. The site contains two pressure treatment cylinders, a wastewater treatment system, five bulk product storage tanks, and seven condenser ponds, including a 3,000,000-gallon, unlined primary surface impoundment. Prior to the installation of the wastewater treatment system in 1983, untreated process wastewater and sludge from the facility were pumped into the primary surface impoundment to evaporate excess water. In 1985, PCP-contaminated sediment and sludge from the condenser ponds were excavated and deposited in the primary surface impoundment. In April 1991, U.S. EPA Region 4 initiated a removal action to eliminate all sources of potential releases to the environment. In the fall of 1991, PCP-contaminated soil from the condenser ponds was excavated and transferred to test plots to serve as a medium for an 8-week feasibility study on white-rot fungi treatment. A second, 5-month study of one particular strain of white-rot fungus took place from June to November 1992. Both studies were conducted by the U.S. EPARisk Reduction Engineering Laboratory (RREL) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) under the Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation (SITE) Program and the Bioremediation Field Initiative.