Environmental Cleanup at Navy Facilities: Adaptive Site Management
By Committee on Environmental Remediation at Naval Facilities, National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press | ISBN: 0309087481 | edition 2003 | PDF | 376 pages | 5,5 mb
The number of hazardous waste sites across the United States has grown to approximately 217,000, with billions of cubic yards of soil, sediment, and groundwater plumes requiring remediation. Sites contaminated with recalcitrant contaminants or with complex hydrogeological features have proved to be a significant challenge to cleanup on every level—technologically, financially, legally, and sociopolitically. Like many federal agencies, the Navy is a responsible party with a large liability in hazardous waste sites.