Innovative Monitoring and Modeling Techniques for Assessing the Performance of Passive Remediation Projects for Contaminated Water and Soil
USGS scientists installing diffusion samplers used to monitor the performance of a reactive barrier designed to remediate a phosphate plume discharging to Ashumet Pond, Cape Cod, MA
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The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Bureau of Land Management cosponsored a special session on "Innovative Monitoring and Modeling Techniques for Assessing the Performance of Passive Remediation Projects for Contaminated Water and Soil" (T20) at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 16-19, 2005. The session featured the latest information on monitoring passive remediation systems, such as reactive barriers, that can be used by regulators, cleanup professionals, and scientists.
Session Description
Passive remediation methods offer low-cost alternatives to other methods for soil and water cleanup. The success of these efforts is dependent on innovative techniques to monitor and assess long-term performance. The session focused on recently developed laboratory, modeling, and monitoring techniques.
USGS Presentations
- Comparison of Reactive Transport Modeling with Constant-Kd and Surface Complexation Models for Uranium(VI) Sorption, by Davis James A., USGS, Curtis, Gary P., USGS, and Kohler, Matthias, Colorado School of Mines
- Monitoring Phosphate Removal by a Pond-Bottom Zero-Valent Iron Reactive Barrier by Using Horizontal and Vertical Multiport Samplers, Vertical Diffusion Chambers, and Seepage Meters, Cape Cod, MA, by LeBlanc Denis R., USGS, McCobb, Timothy D., USGS, Massey, Andrew J., USGS, and Davis, Jon, Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence
- Assessment of Hydrologic and Biogeochemical Changes During the Aging of a Zero-Valent Iron Permeable Reactive Barrier, by Naftz, David L., USGS, Fuller, Christopher, USGS, Wilkins, Michael, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom, and Snyder, Terry, Bureau of Land Management
- Field and Laboratory Evaluation of Limestone Dissolution for Passive Neutralization of Acidic Mine Drainage, by Cravotta, Charles A. III, USGS
- Determining Degradation Efficiency in Bioremediation Pilot Tests at the Ground-Water/Surface-Water Interface in a Tidal Wetland, by Lorah, Michelle M., USGS, Majcher, Emily H., USGS, Jones, Elizabeth J., USGS, and Graves, Duane, GeoSyntec Consultants
- Diurnal Cycles in Ground-Water Induced by Microbially-Mediated Reduction-Oxidation Conditions at a Phytoremediation Demonstration Site in Fort Worth, Texas, by Braun, Christopher L., USGS, and Harvey, Gregory J., United States Air Force
- Assessment and Remediation of a MTBE/BTEX Plume in a Glacial Lacustrine Aquifer in NW Montana, by Kuhn, Jeffrey A., Montana Department of Environmental Quality, Skibicki, Patrick J., Montana Department of Environmental Quality, Sutherland, Mary, University of Montana, Anchester, Kenneth, MSE-Technical Applications, Loustaunau, P. Kevin, RAM Environmental, Landmeyer, James E., USGS, and Veeh, Richard, Montana State University
Conveners
- David Naftz, USGS
- Christopher Fuller, USGS
- Terry Snyder, Bureau of Land Management
Session Information
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USGS Information on Passive Remediation
- Phosphorus Plume Remediation, Massachusetts Military Reservation, Cape Cod, MA
- Subsurface Reactive Barrier, Massachusetts Military Reservation, Cape Cod, MA
- Can Trees Clean Up Ground Water?, Phytoremediation of Trichloroethene-Contaminated Ground Water at Air Force Plant 4, Fort Worth, TX
- Phytoremediation in the Desert?, Amargosa Desert Research Site, NV
- Using Phytoremediation to Control Fuel Oxygenate Plumes in Northern Climates, Flathead Indian Reservation, Ronan, MT
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