DOE 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 of 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