Waste Treatment and Remediation Technologies for Arsenic

University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research 

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 

Arsenic Edited by Kevin R. Henke 2009 John Wiley Sons, Ltd. ISBN 978-0-470-02758-5 

Groundwater is generally less accessible to treatment methods than surface water, which means that groundwater treatment is usually more difficult and expensive. Alaerts and Khouri (2004) identified several factors that affect the costs and feasibility of treating arsenic in groundwater. As expected, the lowering 

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