Groundwater Risk Management Handbook

Abstract

Navy experience has shown that groundwater remediation poses a number of challenges, especially at sites with difficult conditions such as large, low concentration plumes, deep alluvial aquifers, fractured bedrock, and low permeability formations. In the past, pump-and-treat was often used to address groundwater impacts, but this approach has been largely ineffective in reaching final cleanup levels in a reasonable time frame and often results in high operation and maintenance costs (Naval Facilities Engineering Command [NAVFAC], 2003). The US Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) has also recognized that restoration of groundwater to drinking water quality may not always be achievable due to technology limitations and, therefore, has developed a defined process for determining whether groundwater remediation is technically impracticable from an engineering perspective.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA593398

Entities

People

  • Karla Harre

Organizations

  • Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Alkenes
  • Base Closures
  • Chemical Synthesis
  • Chemistry
  • Digestive System Processes
  • Drinking Water
  • Engineering
  • Environment
  • Environmental Pollutants
  • Environmental Protection
  • Environmental Restoration And Remediation
  • Groundwater
  • Medical Personnel
  • Risk
  • Risk Management
  • Waste Management
  • Water Quality

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Groundwater Contamination Remediation.
  • Systems Analysis and Design