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TREATABILITY STUDIES FOR WOOD PRESERVING SITES
Citation:
Janszen, T. A., P. C. Kefauver, W. M. Coates, K. Whitford, S. Krietemeyer, AND J. Rawe. TREATABILITY STUDIES FOR WOOD PRESERVING SITES. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/R-98/026 (NTIS 98-132400), 1998.
Impact/Purpose:
to publish information
Description:
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), National Risk Management Research Laboratory (NRMRL), Site Management Support Branch, conducted a comprehensive treatability project for wood preserving sites in 1995 and 1996. This is a compilation report on the treatability studies of soils, groundwater, and emulsions containing hazardous constituents from wood-treatment waste. The primary contaminants of concern are polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, pentachlorophenol, metals, dioxins and furans.
The three sites selected for this study were the American Cresote Works (ACW) site in Jackson, Tennessee; the Rab Valley Company Site (RAB) in Panama, Oklahoma; and the McCormick and Baxter (MCB) site in Stockton, California. Soil and water samples were collected from all three sites. Contaminants in these samples were profiled and the soils were characterize. Samples were shipped to the different vendors for the treatability tests. The overall objective of this project was to develop treatability data on technologies which are capable of reducing the mobility, toxicity and/or volume of the primary contaminants from soils, groundwater, and emulsions at wood treating sites. This study provides treatability information on complex wastes, including the effects of these technologies on dioxins and furans.
