Site characterization soil remediation design

Integrating Site Characterization with Aquifer and Soil Remediation Design... 

The third section of this monograph also covers some other representative recent research to develop new remediation options. When an aquifer or soil is contaminated, careful site characterization must be integrated with the remediation design to clean the site. This is the topic of Chapter 22 by Reeves and coworkers. Chemical reductions are the topic of Chapter 23 by Farrell al and Chapter 25 by Pittman et al. Passing water from a contaminated plume over a bed of finely divided iron to remediate contamination from chlorinated organics has recently attracted significant attention. A consideration of the mechanisms controlling process is provided by Farrell. 

Site characterization and source identification are crucial to successful design of systems to remediate soil and groundwater contamination. There are, however, several factors that make it difficult to predict contaminant movement, and, therefore, make it difficult to design a remediation system. First, the geologic structure is usually heterogeneous, but only a limited number of data are available to describe the heterogeneity. Second, it is often difficult to completely... 

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