Hanford Pollution Prevention
Success Stories
Soil-Sement
Challenge
Identify an alternative to plastic sheets and water, used to control erosion from excavated soil in Radiologically Controlled Areas such as the Tank Farms. The use of plastic sheets and water resulted in generation of low-level waste, and the accelerated migraiton of contaminates through the soil column to the ground water.
Initiative
The Tank Waste Remediation System Division of ICF Kaiser Hanford procured Soil-Sement, a non-regulated soil binder, to prevent erosion of excavated soils, and tested it in the SY Tank Farms. An applicator and portable storage tank, which permitted application of the soil binder from outside the radiation area, was purchased enabling the unit to be used at other Tank Farms.
Success
Soil-Sement was successfully used to prevent soil erosion in the SY Tank
Farm, avoiding disposal of 0.28 cubic meters of low-level waste, resutling in
a cost savings of $1,800.
Soil-Sement will be used on other Hanford TWRS projects.
Point of Contact/Organization:
ICF KH TWRS Engineering and Construction SVS/Doug Holbrook and Manuel Aguirre
URL: http://www.hanford.gov/polprev/fy96/43.htm
Last Updated: 07/25/2002 11:49:11
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