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Long‐Term Contaminant Trends at the Picillo Farm Superfund Site in Rhode Island
Author(s) -
Boving Thomas B.,
Blue Julie
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
remediation journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.762
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 1520-6831
pISSN - 1051-5658
DOI - 10.1002/rem.10029
Subject(s) - superfund , environmental remediation , environmental science , term (time) , environmental planning , hydrology (agriculture) , contamination , geology , engineering , hazardous waste , waste management , ecology , physics , geotechnical engineering , quantum mechanics , biology
Environmental disasters, such as the infamous Love Canal site or the Valley of Drums, have taken many yearsand consumed billions of dollars to investigate and remediate. In consequence, a large amount of geologic andhydrologic information has been gathered over the past few decades. Because of the difficulties involved withcompiling this information, scientists and professionals rarely use the data to investigate the uniquelong‐term databases. This article presents for the first time the compilation of chemical fate andtransport data from the Picillo Farm Superfund site in Rhode Island. The data cover a quarter of a century worthof geologic, hydrogeologic, and geochemical information and indicate significant changes in the contaminantinventory and the center of mass contaminant location over time. Many of these changes would have been missed ifa data set of shorter duration were evaluated. Thus, compiling and evaluating data collected over many years canbe extremely valuable in understanding the fate and transport of contaminants and determining the effectivenessof remediation. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.