Description of Work for Drilling at the 183-DR Site in Support of the In Situ Gaseous Reduction Test

Thornton, Edward C. ; Olsen, Khris B. ; Schalla, Ronald

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (U.S.)

关键词: Boreholes;    Wastes Hexavalent Chromium;    Hexavalent Chromium;    Soils;    Spatial Distribution;   

DOI  :  10.2172/965228
RP-ID  :  PNNL-13261
RP-ID  :  AC05-76RL01830
RP-ID  :  965228

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

In Situ Gaseous Reduction is a technology currently being developed by DOE for the remediation of soil waste sites contaminated with hexavalent chromium. Prior work suggests that a candidate for application of this approach is the 183-DR site at Hanford. However, deep vadose zone drilling is needed to verify the presence of a hexavalent chromium source and to determine the concentration levels and spatial distribution of contamination. This document presents the requirements associated with drilling one to two vadose zone boreholes at the 183-DR site to obtain this information. If hexavalent chromium is determined to be present at levels of at least 10 ppm in the vadose zone in one of the initial boreholes, this hole will be completed for gas injection and six additional gas extraction boreholes will be drilled and completed. This network will be used as a flowcell for performing a gas treatment test at the site.