Barrier Technologies for Environmental Management

Committee on Remediation of Buried and Tank Wastes, National Research Council

• 1 Front Matter; 2 Executive Summary; 3 Introduction; 4 Workshop Overview; 5 Themes Identified at Workshop; 6 References; 7 Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members; 8 Appendix B: Program Outline; 9 Appendix C: Participants; 10 Appendix D: Table of Contents of Papers Presented; 11 Development and Testing of Permanent Isolation Surface Barriers at the Hanford Site; 12 New Technologies for Subsurface Barrier Wall Construction; 13 Ecology, Design, and Long-Term Performance of Surface Barriers: Applications at a Uranium Mill Tailings Site; 14 Soil, Plant and Structural considerations for Surface Barriers in Arid Environments: Application of Results from Studies in the Mojave Desear near Beatty, Nevada; 15 Natural Physical and Biological Processes Compromise the Long-term Performance of Compacted Soil Caps; 16 Geomembranes in Surface Barriers; 17 Earthen Materials in Surface Barriers; 18 Comparison of Clay and Asphaltic Materials for Use as Low-Permeability Layers in Engineered Covers at the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site; 19 Alternatives for Ground Water Cleanup; 20 Construction of Deep Barrier Walls for Waste Containment; 21 Self-Hardening Slurries and Stable Grouts from Cement-Bentonite to IMPERMIX; 22 A Field Test of Permeation Grouting in Heterogeneous Soils Using a New Generation of Barrier Liquids; 23 Sealable Joint Steel Sheet Piling for Ground-Water Pollution Control; 24 Artifically Frozen Ground as a Subsurface Barrier Technology