FATE AND TRANSPORT MODEL OF TNT CONTAMINATED SOILS

J.C. Gillen, J.C. Tracy and M.S. Kennedy

Northern Great Plains Water Resources Research Center, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, 57007, 605-688-5427


ABSTRACT

A model was developed to assist in determining the fate and transport anticipated during remediation of trinitrotoluene (TNT) contaminated soils. The model is physically based to incorporate biological, physical, chemical and environmental factors in predicting the degradation fate of trinitrotoluene (TNT). Model applications range from contaminant sources such as abandoned mines, waste heap piles, munitions industrial waste water lagoons, military bombing ranges, and weapons maintenance and disposal operations.

KEY WORDS

remediation, model, TNT, munitions, wastes

This paper is from the Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference on Hazardous Waste Research 1995, published in hard copy and on the Web by the Great Plains/Rocky Mountain Hazardous Substance Research Center.