Methods evaluated include landfill disposal, incineration or cement kiln destruction, soil washing, and in situ sorption and stabilization with colloidal activated carbon.
A new solid, colloidal organic material (AquiFix) markedly improves remedial outcomes for in situ (i.e., in place) bio-barrier treatments designed to stop migrating CVOC plumes.
Slideshow: Operators pump a sea of “produced water” underground for disposal. Intensifying tremors raise fears that the deep toxic waste pits could intermingle with water used for farming and drinking.
Injection of wastewater from fracking troubles David Shifflett, a farmer who irrigates his crops and draws his drinking water from the ground, which has started to heave and bulge in recent years.