Remediation of Petroleum-Contaminated Soils. A Synthesis of Highway Practice

摘要

This report will be of interest to state transportation personnel involved withproject planning and location (administrative and regulatory personnel), design staff (general civil, geotechnical, and environmental engineers), and project managers. It will also be of interest to federal and state environmental agencies and to environmental consultants and contractors, as well as to trainers in the field of petroleum-contaminated soil remediation. This report describes the remedial technologies that are available to transportation agencies faced with the regulatory responsibility to clean or remediate petroleum-contaminated soils in the vadose zone (unsaturated soils above the ground-water table) at a particular site, as well as the state of the practice within the agencies. It describes the applicability and cost-effectiveness of alternative technologies to remediate petroleum-contaminated soil. Practices currently being used by state transportation agencies to remediate petroleum-contaminated soils, both on site and off site, are also described.