Contaminant containment measures are often necessary to prevent or minimize offsite
movement of contaminated materials for disposal or other purposes when they can be …

Land treatment has become an essential waste management practice. Therefore, soil
becomes a major source of contaminants including organic chemicals and potentially toxic …

This book presents a comprehensive, up-to-date review of technologies for cleaning up
contaminants in groundwater and soil. It provides a special focus on three classes of …

Contaminated soil and groundwater have been the subject of study and research, so that the
field of remediation has grown and evolved, continually developing and adopting new …

Throughout the world, subsurface contamination has become a widespread and pervasive
problem. Toxic chemicals such as heavy metals and organic compounds are commonly …

The most common process for remediating contaminated ground water is extraction and
treatment. Data from 19 on‐going and completed ground water extraction systems were …

Pollution and the global health impacts from toxic environmental pollutants are presently of
great concern. At present, more than 100 million people are at risk from exposure to a …

There may be nearly 300,000 waste sites in the United States where ground water and soil
are contaminated. Yet recent studies question whether existing technologies can restore …

Routine waterway dredging activities generate huge volumes of dredged sediment. The
remediation of dredged contaminated sediment is a worldwide challenge. Novel and …

Soil and sediment contamination has become a critical issue worldwide due to its great
harm to the ecological environment and public health. In recent years, many remediation …