User Guidance for Application of TREECS (trademark) and CTS for Environmental Risk Assessment of Contaminants on Department of Defense (DoD) Ranges

Abstract

The Training Range Environmental Evaluation and Characterization System (TREECS) was developed for the Army to forecast the fate of and risk from munitions constituents (MC), such as high explosives and metals, within and transported from firing/training ranges to surface water and groundwater. TREECS requires chemical-specific properties as part of the inputs. The Chemical Transformation Simulator (CTS) was developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to provide physicochemical properties of complex organic chemicals. CTS has capabilities for estimating chemical-specific properties in the absence of experimentally obtained properties; thus, CTS can help fill data gaps for properties, particularly for emerging MC that have limited experimental data. This report discusses the input requirements, sources of input data, and lessons learned from applying TREECS and CTS.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2017
Accession Number
AD1036545

Entities

People

  • Billy E. Johnson
  • Eric J. Weber
  • Mark S. Dortch

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemistry
  • Department Of Defense
  • Diffusion Coefficient
  • Ecology
  • Energetic Materials
  • Environment
  • Environmental Pollutants
  • Environmental Protection
  • Environmental Restoration And Remediation
  • Explosives
  • Groundwater
  • High Explosives
  • Insensitive Explosives
  • Mathematical Models
  • Risk
  • Risk Analysis
  • Water Resources

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Aerospace Propulsion Engineering.
  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Military/Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Technology