Publisher's Synopsis
Hazardous Waste Site Remediation The Engineer’s Perspective O’Brien & Gere Engineers, Inc. More than twenty thousand hazardous waste disposal sites litter the United States. Cleaning them up requires practical, workable solutions that, until now, books have ignored in favor of abstract theory. Hazardous Waste Site Remediation: The Engineer’s Perspective leaves abstraction behind and gives you effective, concrete clean–up procedures formulated from the authors’ evaluation and restoration of over 100 disposal sites, a number of them on the National Priority List. You get the procedures you need to assess site risk, devise remediation strategies, and use the appropriate clean–up technology. This much–needed guide provides first–time coverage of techniques for conducting feasibility studies, determining site safety, modeling ground–water conditions, biologically treating ground water, and removing underground storage tanks. It shows you exactly how to:
- design and implement each phase of the clean–up plan
- apply effective remedial technologies, including secure burial cells, incineration, and chemical fixation
- fix leaking underground storage tanks, a leading cause of ground water contamination
- collect and analyze air, water, and soil data to determine the degree of the hazard
