Nature rawks!
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EPA has proposed a remedy to clean up soil and groundwater contamination at Romic Environmental Technologies Corporation. Romic is a 14-acre hazardous waste management facility located in
If you've got two minutes, I recommend checking out the video press release on the EPA site, which also has more details about the project.
Proposed Cleanup Approach
The proposed plan of action for contamination at Romic relies on enhanced biological treatment as well as other approaches. The enhanced biological treatment uses cheese whey and molasses as a food source for natural microbes that live in the soil and ground water below the Romic facility. These microbes break down the contaminants into carbon dioxide, water and salt. Tests of this technology at the Romic facility have shown as much as a 99% decrease in the amount of contamination. Implementing the remedy site-wide will require installation of a few hundred more injection wells than the 60 which now exist. Thereafter, the molasses solution will be injected throughout the property. EPA hopes to use this technology at more cleanup sites in the future, because it demonstrates rapid and effective results using inputs which are non-harmful (in this case, food-grade products), while using less energy resources than traditional pumping and treating of groundwater.
4 comments:
Just put out some free food and the bacteria will participate? Cool! Who knew microbes worked on the same principals as office employees?
Ooops - make that "principles," not "principals." Though I'm sure microbes do work on principals - as well as teachers, lunchroom staff, custodians, and students.
tee hee hee. fantastic commentary. also holds true for students. remember all the free pizza at student association meetings? how many nights a week was it papa john's for dinner?
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