Waste management site remediation

As discussed in Chapter 3, at least trace amounts of arsenic commonly occur in rocks, soils, sediments, sludges and spent sorbents from water treatment systems, coal ashes, industrial wastes, and many other natural and artificial solids. Depending upon whether they are considered regulatory hazards (Appendix E), solid materials may require treatment before disposal (waste management) or remediation if they are located at a contaminated site. For solids, arsenic treatment may involve reducing the arsenic concentrations in the materials so that they are no longer hazardous (for example, soil washing). However, because arsenic cannot be destroyed, eventually the element will require permanent disposal in a manner that does not... 

Hatch, J. and E. Hayes. "State-of-the-Art Remedial Action Technologies Used for the Sydney Mine Waste Disposal Site Cleanups," In Management of Uncontrolled Hazardous Waste Sites Proceedings, Washington, D.C., 1985, pp. 285. 

NJ DEP, Underground Storage Tanks (USTs), Site Remediation and Waste Management, NJ Department of Environmental Protection, Trenton, NJ, November 2006. 

A successful modem hazardous industrial waste treatment program for a particular industry will include not only traditional water pollution control but also air pollution control, noise control, soil conservation, site remediation, radiation protection, groundwater protection, hazardous waste management, solid waste disposal, and combined industrial-municipal waste treatment and management. In fact, it should be a holistic environmental control program. Another intention of this handbook series is to provide technical and economical information on the development of the most feasible total environmental control program that can benefit both industry and local municipalities. Frequently, the most economically feasible methodology is a combined industrial-municipal waste treatment. 

Bennett, P. D., Brumbach, B., Farmer, T. W., Funkhouser, P. L., and Hatheway, A. W., 1999, Remedy Selection for Cleanup of Uncontrolled Waste Sites Practical Periodical of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste Management, Vol. 3, No. 1, January, pp. 23-34. 

Nelson, M., Mills, D. Downs, L. (1994). Application of cometabolism for remediation of chloroethenes at industrial sites. In Emerging Technologies in Hazardous Waste Management VI, ed. D. W. Tedder, pp. 849-51. Atlanta, GA American Chemical Society. 

The Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management (EM) manages the DOE environmental programs. Remedial action at sites throughout the DOE complex involves treatment, disposal, and in some cases transfer to the Waste Management Program of various types of waste. These types of waste are categorized as ... 

While waste management attempts to prevent site contamination, remediation deals with sites that have already been contaminated. Remediation refers to the restoration of a site through the treatment of its... 

Waste management The proper collection, handling, treatment, transportation, and disposal of unusable liquids, solids, or gases. Proper waste management minimizes the negative impacts of wastes on the environment. While waste management seeks to prevent negative environmental impacts, the purpose of remediation is to restore sites that have already been contaminated into an environmental acceptable condition. 

Resource Remediation and Waste Management at the Sillamae Site, Estonia Tallinn, Estonia, Oct. 5-9, 1998. 

NCRP emphasizes, however, that waste classification does not provide a substitute for establishing requirements on treatment and disposal of specific wastes at specific sites, requirements on remediation of contaminated sites, or decisions by regulatory authorities about the acceptability of any such activities. The acceptability of particular waste management or disposal activities must be based on site-specific assessments of risks posed by well characterized wastes. Waste classification, although useful, can only inform the process of... 

Gabriel, P.F. (1991). Innovative technologies for contaminated site remediation Focus on bioremediation. J. Air Waste. Manag. Assoc., 41 1657-1660. 

Srivastava, V. j. (1993). Manufactured Gas Plant Sites Characterization of Wastes and IGT s Innovative Remediation Alternatives." Paper presented at Hazardous and Environmentally Sensitive Waste Management in the Gas Industry, Albuquerque, NM, January. 

D0E s current environmental restoration policy is to clean up contaminated facilities and sites within the weapons complex to achieve full compliance with the letter and intent of the applicable federal, state, and local statutes (Bl) The Five Year Plan for Environmental Restoration and Waste Management (6) describes the technologies and research plans currently identified. Long-term research plans in support of subsurface remediation (7) have also been published and are currently being implemented. 

Regulatory Approach to Site Remediation. Most environmental cleanup standards are derived from the provisions of CERCLA, section 121 "Cleanup Standards" or RCRA, Subtitle C entitled "Hazardous Waste Management." The implementing regulations are... 

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