The U.S. Department of Energy established the Environmental Sciences Laboratory (ESL) in Grand Junction, Colorado, in 1991 to support its programs. ESL scientists perform applied research and laboratory-scale demonstrations of soil and groundwater remediation and treatment technologies.

 

Capabilities

- Installation, monitoring, and operation of permeable reactive barriers

- Research for permeable reactive barriers and treatment cells

- Performance assessment and optimization of groundwater remediation systems

- Groundwater characterization

- Coupled hydrogeochemical modeling for groundwater remediation

- Soil and groundwater phytoremediation

- Design and monitor landfill covers

- Analogs of long-term performance of waste disposal cells

- Water balance studies, lysimetry, and vadose zone monitoring

Facilities/Equipment

- Contaminant transport laboratory

- Segmented test columns

- Groundwater modeling laboratory

- Plant ecophysiology equipment

- Mobile laboratory

- Lysimeter test facility

- Analytical equipment

- Petrographic laboratory

- Soil analysis

Permeable Reactive Barriers 

ESL Reports (with full text) 

List of ESL Publications