Remediation Manual for Contaminated Sites

By David L. Russell

Book Overview

Based on the author's more than 40 years of experience working on environmental projects, Remediation Manual for Contaminated Sites provides a practical guide to environmental remediation and cleanups. It presents a broad overview of the environmental remediation process, distilled into what one needs to know to evaluate a specific challenge or solve a remediation problem. The text offers guidance on tasks that range from managing consultants and contractors to gathering data, selecting a suitable remediation technology, and calculating remediation costs. This new edition is updated throughout, includes five new chapters, and provides a more global coverage.

This book includes remediation strategies for a variety of contaminants and examines a wide range of technologies for the remediation of water and soil, including excavation, wells, drainage, soil venting, vapor stripping, incineration, bioremediation, containment, solidification, vitrification, and phytoremediation. Written as a down-to-earth reference for professionals faced with the challenges of remediating a contaminated site, this book is also useful as a primer for students and those new to the field. It includes numerous figures, photographs, tables, and helpful checklists This new edition adds five all-new chapters. It presents a more global approach and practical examples from around the world

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032368055
• ISBN13: 9781032368054
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"