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Main Title Treatment of Hazardous Landfill Leachates and Contaminated Groundwater.
Author Ahlert, R. C. ; Kosson, D. S. ;
CORP Author Rutgers - The State Univ., Piscataway, NJ. Dept. of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering.;Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH. Risk Reduction Engineering Lab.
Publisher Nov 88
Year Published 1988
Report Number EPA/600/2-88/064;
Stock Number PB89-124648
Additional Subjects Hazardous materials ; Waste treatment ; Ground water ; Halohydrocarbons ; Earth fills ; Water pollution abatement ; Toxicity ; Public health ; Physicochemical properties ; Pilot plants ; Cleanup operations ; Toxicity characteristic leaching procedure(TCLP) ; Hazardous waste sites
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NTIS  PB89-124648 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
The study assessed the application of separate or combined biological and physical/chemical treatment techniques to high-strength hazardous dumpsite or landfill leachates, extractable wastes and spills, or sludges. Four types of real-world toxic, concentrated, complex wastes served as prototype waste streams: industrial landfill leachate, leachate from an industrial sludge impoundment, forced extract from impounded industrial sludge, and ground water contaminated with chlorinated solvent. Field pilot plants were constructed and operated to demonstrate sequential aerobic/anaerobic soil-based microbial treatment for leachates from two sites and for ground water contaminated with 1,1,1-trichloroethane at a third site. Even in the presence of high concentrations of inorganic salts, organic carbon reductions up to 99% were readily achieved. The levels of chlorinated solvents extracted in subsurface water were reduced from 5 mg/L to less than 20 ng/mL (greater than 99.6%).