Accelerated Bioremediation Petroleum Hydrocarbons Using Oxygen

摘要

Hundreds of thousands of sites across the United States and Canada are dealing with soil and groundwater contamination issues from leaking storage tanks, spills, and careless operations at current and former fuel dispensing facilities. Within the last twenty-five years, the U.S. EPA Underground Storage Tank Program, the more recent Petroleum Brownfields Action Plan, and similarly the Federal Contaminated Sites Action Plan in Canada, were implemented to help facilitate the cleanup of these contaminated sites. Although these programs, along with accompanying regulations, have led to the successful remediation of a large portion of these sites, there are still thousands of polluted sites remaining. With almost 600,000 active tanks in the U.S. alone, future spills and leaks are inevitable, therefore the environment and groundwater remain at risk.