Mobility of Particulate and Dissolved Munitions Constituents in the Vadose Zone at Operational Ranges

Abstract

The purpose of this project is to determine the extent to which munitions constituents (MC) could migrate in the subsurface due to colloid migration and/or via macropore flow. Both of these processes have the capability to bypass large proportions of subsurface media, resulting in faster or deeper migration that might be expected. The finding of a large plume of RDX at the Massachusetts Military Reservation (MMR) is surprising because MC are sparsely distributed at low concentrations on surface soils at operational ranges, and because the vadose zone at MMR is quite deep. Consequently there is a need to explain the findings at MMR and to determine if groundwater contamination with MC is important at other operational ranges.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 05, 2011
Accession Number
AD1048763

Entities

People

  • Beth Lavoie
  • Brandon Lafferty
  • Guoping Tang
  • Larry D. Mckay
  • Mark Chappell
  • Melanie A. Mayes
  • Prasesh Sharma

Organizations

  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • United States Army Corps of Engineers
  • University of Tennessee system

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemical Properties
  • Chemistry
  • Contamination
  • Detection
  • Digital Data
  • Digital Information
  • Ecology
  • Energetic Materials
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Explosives
  • Groundwater
  • High Explosives
  • Mass Transfer
  • Materials
  • Metadata
  • Munitions
  • Particle Size
  • Particles
  • Sorption
  • Water Resources

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Aerospace Propulsion Engineering.
  • Agricultural Chemistry/Soil Science
  • Environmental Remediation and Restoration.