Why on site chemical stabilization?

• Too much contaminated soil in the DOD Complex

  • Not enough landfill space for all contaminated soil from the entire Complex
  • Solidification/encapsulation/vitrification requires too much volume or is too expensive and does not leave soil in place or in a form appropriate for most future uses
  • Other innovative technologies still under development
    Electrokinetic methods will not work for large sites or carbonate soils
    Microbiological remediation not suited to metals/does not remove them or stabilize them but concentrates them in biomatrices
    Phytoremediation produces contaminated plant material
    Soil washing requires aggressive solutions and lengthy treatment
    Others have large O&M requirements

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