Why on site chemical stabilization?
Large volume of contaminated soil at typical Small-Arms Ranges
- Management of hazardous waste through off-site disposal is expensive.
- Solidification/encapsulation/vitrification is expensive and does not leave soil in place or in a form appropriate for most future uses.
- Reclamation or size separation recovers only particulate metal, does not address the soluble (i.e., more mobile) forms of the metal.
- Other innovative technologies still under development;
- Electrokinetic methods will not work for large sites
- Phytoremediation produces contaminated plant bio-mass
- Soil washing requires aggressive solutions and lengthy treatment
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