Chlorinated solvent usage at a former printing facility in Orange County, California (Figure 1) contaminated the soil, soil vapor, and groundwater with tetrachloroethene (PCE) and trichloroethene (TCE).
In the next few weeks, EPA will begin cleanup work at the Lewis Chemical Site in Hyde Park, Mass. to address polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) contamination.
Near the industrial city Norilsk in northern Siberia in 2020, a destabilized storage tank released 17,000 metric tons of diesel. Incidents like this could "easily" become more frequent in the future as average global temperatures rise.
These results show that PetroFix is an effective tool for quickly reducing the risk-sensitive benzene and MTBE concentrations in groundwater and obtaining regulatory closures in short order for long-open sites.
The following white paper provides an abbreviated overview of two laboratory experiments and a fieldwork demonstration that showed evidence for the biodegradation of contaminants from CAC.
The colloidal activated carbon (CAC) technologies developed by REGENESIS, PetroFix and PlumeStop, are often paired with biostimulating electron acceptors or donors to destroy adsorbed contaminants.