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SUPERFUND ENGINEERING ISSUE: TREATMENT OF LEAD-CONTAMINATED SOILS
Citation:
Chambers, C. AND D. Smith. SUPERFUND ENGINEERING ISSUE: TREATMENT OF LEAD-CONTAMINATED SOILS. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/540/2-91/009 (NTIS PB91921291).
Description:
This document summarizes the contents of a seminar on treatment of lead-contaminated soils presented on August 28, 1990, to Region V Superfund and RCRA personnel by members of EPA's Engineering and Treatment Technology Support Center located in the Risk Reduction Engineering Laboratory (RREL) in Cincinnati, Ohio. his bulletin is intended to summarize the information presented during the seminar and it should not be viewed as a definitive treatise on lead treatment technologies. More detail on specific technologies can be obtained from the referenced reports and from consultation with technology experts. This bulletin is organized to address site characterization issues and actual treatment technologies. he treatment technologies are divided into two categories: "demonstrated" and "emerging". xtraction processes (e.g., soil washing and acid leaching) and solidification\stabilization techniques have been evaluated where lead was a contaminant of concern. he emerging technologies discussed were in situ vitrification, electrokinetics, and flash smelting.