Potential for Migration of Hazardous Wood Treating Chemicals during Land Treatment Operations

摘要

The amounts and types of toxic chemicals that migrate into the ground water during active land treatment operations were studied to determine the relative rates of migration versus biological degradation using three types of soil found in the southeastern United States, to identify and quantify the breakdown products from active land-farming operations, and to determine the toxicity of the water-soluble products formed during active land-treatment processes. The project is a two-year project and is approximately 50% complete. The hazardous waste at each site has been characterized chemically using a variety of parameters. The rates of microbiological degradation and the migration studies are now in progress and should be complete later this year.