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Controlled Degradation and/or Protection Zones — The Way It Looks a
Author(s) -
Miller David W.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
groundwater
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.84
H-Index - 94
eISSN - 1745-6584
pISSN - 0017-467X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-6584.1979.tb03292.x
Subject(s) - containment (computer programming) , degradation (telecommunications) , groundwater , environmental science , pollutant , contamination , environmental engineering , environmental protection , computer science , engineering , chemistry , geotechnical engineering , telecommunications , ecology , organic chemistry , biology , programming language
The support for controlled degradation and/or protection zones arises from the fact that cleaning up existing bodies of contaminated ground water, almost without exception, has not been successful because of technical difficulties and extremely high costs inherent to abatement procedures. With regard to potential future sources of ground‐water contamination, controlled degradation and/or protection zones are attractive because the state‐of‐the‐art for containment of pollutants has not advanced to the degree that full ground‐water protection can be guaranteed. Methods used to carry out a program of controlled degradation and/or establishment of ground‐water protection zones can be applied on both a regional and site‐specific level.