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TREATMENT TECHNOLOGY FOR REMEDIATION OF WOOD PRESERVING SITES: OVERVIEW
Citation:
Bates*, E R., D W. Grosse*, AND E SahleDemessie*. TREATMENT TECHNOLOGY FOR REMEDIATION OF WOOD PRESERVING SITES: OVERVIEW. Remediation Journal. John Wiley & Sons Incorporated, New York, NY, 10(3):35-49, (2000).
Description:
This is the first in a series of five articles describing the applicability, performance and cost of technologies for the remediation of contaminated soil and water at wood preserving sites. Site-specific treatability studies conducted under the supervision of the USEPA NRMRL from 1995-97 constitute much of the basis for the evaluations presented, although dat afrom other treatability studies, literature sources, and actual site remediations, have also been included to provide a more comprehensive evaluation of remediation technologies. This article provides an overview of the wood preserving sites studies, including contaminant levels, and a summary of the performance of the technologies evaluated. The subsequent articles discuss the performance of each technology in more detail. Three articles discuss technologies for treatment of soils including: solidification/stabilization, biological treatment, solvent extraction and soil washing. One article discusses technologies for treatment of liquids, water and NAPLS (non aqueous phase liquids), including biological treatment, carbon adsorption, photolytic oxidation, and hydraulic containment. The reader should be aware that other technologies including, but not limited to, incinceration, thermal desorption, and base catalyzed dehalogenation, also have application for treating contaminants on wood preserving sites. They are not discussed in these five articles since the focu was to evaluate lesser known and hopefully lower cost approaches. However, the reader should include consideration of these other technologies as part of any evaluation or screening of technologies applicable to remediation of wood preserving sites.