SOIL TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL AT PEARL HARBOR SAVES NAVY
This article describes a soil treatment method used to dispose of large amounts of chromium. Foundation excavation for a new pipe shop at the Pearl Harbor Shipyard uncovered a chromic acid spill where an electroplating shop was once located. Since the only alternative was to put the soil in 55-gallon containers to be shipped to a Class I landfill on the mainland at a cost of a million dollars, the solution was to leach out the chromium from the soil and then treat the leachate at a total cost of $248,000. This leachate treatment method was also used to treat the contaminated groundwater.
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Corporate Authors:
Naval Facilities Engineering Command
Alexandria, VA United States -
Authors:
- Yamamoto, V K
- Publication Date: 1984
Media Info
- Features: Figures; Tables;
- Pagination: p. 6-8
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Serial:
- Navy Civil Engineer
- Publisher: Naval Facilities Engineering Command
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Chromium; Contaminants; Groundwater; Leachate; Leaching; Soil stabilization
- Uncontrolled Terms: Contamination; Removal; Soil treatment
- Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Highways; I42: Soil Mechanics;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00393944
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Jul 31 1985 12:00AM