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Accelerating environmental cleanup at DOE sites: Monitored natural attenuation/enhanced attenuation—A basis for a new paradigm
Author(s) -
Sink Claire H.,
Adams Karen M.,
Looney Brian B.,
Vangelas Karen M.,
Cutshall Norman H.
Publication year - 2004
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.20035
Subject(s) - environmental remediation , government (linguistics) , groundwater , environmental science , attenuation , natural (archaeology) , environmental planning , computer science , engineering , risk analysis (engineering) , business , contamination , history , ecology , linguistics , philosophy , physics , geotechnical engineering , optics , archaeology , biology
Abstract The U.S. Department of Energy is conducting a project to accelerate remediation through the use of monitored natural attenuation and enhanced attenuation for chlorinated ethenes in soils and groundwater. Better monitoring practices, improved scientific understanding, and an advanced regulatory framework are being sought through a team effort that engages technology developers from academia, private industry, and government laboratories; site cleanup managers; stakeholders; and federal and state regulators. The team works collaboratively toward the common goals of reducing risk, accelerating cleanup, reducing cost, and minimizing environmental disruption. Cutting‐edge scientific advances are being combined with experience and sound environmental engineering in a broadly integrated and comprehensive approach that exemplifies socalled “third‐generation R&D.” The project is potentially a model for other cleanup activities. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.