Practice Periodical of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste Management: Recent submissions

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    • Enhancing Landfill Leachate Recirculation System Performance 

      Dwight E. Miller; Stephen M. Emge (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      Leachate recirculation is gaining popularity as an alternative to conventional single-pass leachate systems. Research has shown that leachate recirculation through a landfill can offer operational advantages such as enhanced ...

    • Landfill Gas As Source of VOCs in Ground Water 

      Jay Challa; Dale Skoff; Frank J. Quirus (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      During 1993 and 1994, Waste Management, Inc. and RUST Environment & Infrastructure conducted a complex site investigation at a municipal waste landfill to investigate whether landfill gas and/or leachate was the source of ...

    • Internet Communications Technologies and Their Effect on the Environmental Professional 

      Kapil Sabharwal; A. J. Nicholson (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      Faster and more economical computers, improved software, more capable communications systems (cellular networks, fiber-optic cables, and satellites), and the Internet are driving major changes in the environmental consulting ...

    • Radio Frequency Plasma Treatment of Organic Hazardous Waste 

      William A. Huhn; Helio R. Zwi; Alex Lynn; Richard Dickman; Alfred Wong; Christina Behr-Andres; Elizabeth Hemmick (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      A device utilizing radio frequency (RF) energy inductively coupled to a high temperature plasma at ambient pressures has been developed for the processing of surrogate hazardous liquid or gaseous organic waste. The three ...

    • Remediation of Hazardous-Waste Sites by New England Division of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 

      Mark J. Otis (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) New England Division (NED) remediates hazardous-waste sites for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Superfund Program and the Department of Defense. In fiscal year 1996 ...

    • Emerging Options in Environmental Insurance 

      Maura McCaffery (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      By paying a one-time insurance premium, many people involved with contaminated real estate have used environmental insurance to quantify and transfer the risk associated with environmental contamination. Quantification of ...

    • Field Screening Technique for Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Soils 

      Kathleen Creighton; Ronald Richards (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      Available field screening tests for petroleum hydrocarbons in soil have addressed petroleum fuels, but not lubricating oils and other petroleum products. However, a new field screening test, Dexsil PetroFLAG, has been ...

    • ISO 14000: Legal Advantages of Replacing Command and Control Regulation 

      S. Wayne Rosenbaum (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      Both environmental law and regulated industries are experiencing dramatic changes. There is a quite revolution occurring. That revolution is about the ascendancy of environmental management systems such as ISO 14001 as an ...

    • Editorials 

      Unknown author (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)

    • ASCE Environmental Site Investigation Manual Put to Practical Use as an Industry Reference 

      Yee Cho; Kathleen Campbell (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      From across the nation a task committee of recognized experts assembled to prepare a guidance manual for professionals involved in the due diligence evaluation of site contamination from oil or hazardous materials. This ...

    • Diesel Contamination Remediation at a Remote Site in a Cold Climate 

      T. Wingrove (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      Petroleum hydrocarbon soil contamination is currently one of the most prevalent types of contamination encountered in sites undergoing evaluation and remediation. Both in-situ and ex-situ bioremediation with varying levels ...

    • Analyses to Identify Optimum Value Pollution Prevention Alternatives 

      Christine M. Palese (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      Policies and procedures set forth in Executive Order 12856, SECNAVINST 5000.2A and OPNAVINST 5090.1B include requirements for the Navy to select and use the least hazardous materials to meet mission, operations, and ...

    • Viewpoint: Geosynthetics in New and Emerging Uses 

      Robert M. Koerner (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)

    • Bioremediation of Diesel Contaminated Soil Using Biopiles 

      J. W. Quinn; D. R. Reinhart (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      Ex-situ bioremediation of 500 m

    • Models for Ground Water Flow and Contamination: Survey and Classification 

      Lakshmi N. Reddi; R. L. Peyton; A. Pandit; B. K. Panigrahi; Sayed M. Sayed; H. Emmett (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      This paper summaries the activities of the ASCE Environmental Engineering Division's Groundwater Quality Committee related to survey and classification of most commonly used ground water flow and contamination models. ...

    • Emerging Ideas: Site-Specific Benefit-Cost Analysis for Environmental Remediation Projects 

      Kevin K. Wolka (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      A proposed site-specific benefit-cost analysis methodology for use in remedy selection for environmental remediation projects is analyzed. Benefits, costs, and benefit-cost analysis are defined in the context of environmental ...

    • Ask It Basket 

      Unknown author (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)

    • Privatized Waste Cleanup in Massachusetts: LSP Program 

      Raymond C. Johnson; William J. Rizzo Jr.; Richard J. Hughto (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      In 1993, Massachusetts became the first state in the nation to privatize its hazardous-waste site cleanup program in an effort to expedite contaminated properties through the regulatory system and to provide a more definitive ...

    • Editor's Note 

      Unknown author (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)