Proceedings of the 1996

HSRC
WERC

Joint Conference on the Environment


Creating a New Path on the Santa Fe Trail

May 21, 23, 1996
Holiday Inn Pyramid
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Great Plains/Rocky Mountain Hazardous Substance Research Center
Kansas State University
101 Ward Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506-2502

Waste-management Education & Research Consortium
New Mexico State University
Box 30001, Department WERC
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001

Editors
Larry E. Erickson
Diana L. Tillison
Stanley C. Grant
J. Patrick McDonald

Design and Layout
Diana L. Tillison


ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Although this document has been funded in part by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under assistance agreements R-815709 and R-819653 to the Great Plains/Rocky Mountain Hazardous Substance Research Center, which is headquartered at Kansas State University, it has not been subjected to the agency's peer and administrative review and, therefore, may not necessarily reflect the views of the agency. No official endorsement should be inferred. The U.S. Department of Defense; U.S. De-partment of Energy, Office of Restoration and Waste Management and Office of Technology Development; and the Kansas State University Center for Hazardous Substance Research provided partial support.

ISSN 1054-8564


Preface

The HSRC/WERC Joint Conference on the Environment was organized by the Great Plains/Rocky Mountain Hazardous Substance Research Center (HSRC), headquartered at Kansas State University, and the Waste-management Education & Research Consortium (WERC), headquartered at New Mexico State University. This joint conference brought together professionals associated with these two important consortiums. The conference was held May 21-23, 1996, at the Holiday Inn Pyramid in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The conference program consisted of 115 oral and 125 poster presentations, plenary addresses, and a luncheon address.

The sessions of the conference were metals, munitions-contaminated soil, chemical technologies, technology transfer and analytical methods, technology transfer and munitions-contaminated soils, technology transfer and field applications, technology transfer and training, organic contaminants, barriers and transport, modeling and transport, nonaqueous phase liquids, contaminant fate and transport, PCBs and Mohawk Nation Superfund Site, risk assessment, analytical methods, bioremediation, bioremediation and volatile compounds, and phytoremediation. The Poster part of the program included sessions on Native American issues and Research and Re-education for Displaced Defense Personnel (R2D2) Program activities. Held in conjunction with the conference were the HSRC's Science Advisory Committee meeting, Training and Technology Transfer Advisory Committee meeting, and the Haskell Environmental Research Studies Center (HERS) Advisory Board meeting. Also held in conjunction with the conference were three workshops and two short courses. The conference included the 11th Annual Conference on Hazardous Waste Research.

The papers published in this volume can be viewed on the World Wide Web by going to http://www.engg.ksu.edu/HSRC/Proceedings.html and choosing "Proceedings" under the heading "1996, HSRC/WERC Joint Conference on the Environment, Albuquerque, New Mexico." The abstracts for which complete papers were not submitted for publication can also be viewed on the Web by following the same procedure and then choosing "Abstracts" under the heading "1996, HSRC/WERC Joint Conference on the Environment, Albuquerque, New Mexico."

This conference was co-sponsored by the Great Plains/Rocky Mountain Hazardous Substance Research Center, the Waste-management Education & Research Consortium, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Defense, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the New Mexico Environment Department, the New Mexico Department of Energy, Minerals, and Natural Resources, the Kansas State University Engineering Extension Service, the Kansas State University Advanced Manufacturing Institute, the Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation, the Kansas Geological Survey, the Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology Mine Waste Technology Program, and the Montana State University Center for Biofilm Engineering.

Thanks to all who assisted in the organization of the conference and to those who participated.


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Metals

REMEDIATION OF LEAD-CONTAMINATED SOIL WITH EDTA: BATCH AND COLUMN STUDIES

BIOSORPTION OF CADMIUM, CHROMIUM, LEAD, AND ZINC BY BIOMASS OF MEDICAGO SATIVA (ALFALFA)

HEAVY METAL SPECIATION AND UPTAKE IN CRAYFISH AND TADPOLES

SPECIATION STUDIES AND TOXICITY ASSESSMENT OF COMPLEX HEAVY METAL MIXTURES

UPTAKE OF METAL IONS FROM SOLUTION BY INACTIVATED CELLS OF CYANOBACTERIA

MICROBIAL REDUCTION OF URANIUM USING CELLULOSIC SUBSTRATES

REMEDIATION OF CHROMATE-CONTAMINATED GROUND WATER USING ZERO-VALENT IRON: FIELD TEST AT USCG SUPPORT CENTER, ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA

CALCIUM AND MAGNESIUM INTERFERENCE STUDIES FOR THE BINDING OF HEAVY METAL IONS IN SOLUTION BY MEDICAGO SATIVA (ALFALFA)

APPLICATIONS OF PERMEABLE BARRIER TECHNOLOGY TO GROUND WATER CONTAMINATION AT THE SHIPROCK, NM, UMTRA SITE

AN ELECTROCHEMICAL APPROACH FOR INVESTIGATING CORROSION OF SMALL ARMS MUNITIONS IN FIRING RANGES

CONDUCTIVITY OF SOILS WITH PREFERENTIAL FLOW PATHS

EFFECTS OF VEGETATION ON CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT IN SURFACE FLOWS

FLOW ABOUT LOW-CONDUCTIVITY FRACTURES IN AN UNSATURATED POROUS MEDIUM

Munitions-Contaminated Soil

BIOREMEDIATION OF SOLID TNT PARTICLES IN A SOIL SLURRY REACTOR: MASS TRANSFER CONSIDERATIONS

Chemical Technologies

REVIEW OF THE GALVANIC STRIPPING PROCESS FOR USE IN TREATING OXIDIZED METAL WASTES

DEVELOPMENT OF POLAROGRAPHIC SENSORS FOR HEAVY METAL DETECTION SENSING APPLICATIONS

Technology Transfer and Munitions-Contaminated Soils

SOLIDIFICATION/STABILIZATION OF METALS AND EXPLOSIVES IN SOILS

FIELD DEMONSTRATION OF ON-SITE ANALYTICAL METHODS FOR TNT AND RDX IN GROUND WATER

Technology Transfer and Field Applications

EFFECTS OF CARBONATION ON THE LONG-TERM LEACHING PERFORMANCE OF CEMENTITIOUS WASTEFORMS

POLLUTION PREVENTION ASSESSMENTS FOR MARINE MAINTENANCE AND COMMERCIAL PRINTING INDUSTRIES

Technology Transfer and Training

SECONDARY EDUCATION THROUGH HEALTH-ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH CURRICULUM: A SUPERFUND SCIENCE LITERACY OUTREACH PROJECT

RAD WORLD-COMPUTER-ANIMATED VIDEO RADIATION AND HAZARDOUS WASTE-MANAGEMENT SCIENCE CURRICULUM

THE PUEBLO SUPERFUND PROGRAM-A NATIVE AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE ON CULTURAL IMPACTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL EQUITY UNDER THE COMPREHENSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE, COMPENSATION, AND LIABILITY ACT (CERCLA)

Organic Contaminants

OPTIMIZATION OF CONTAMINANT REMOVAL FOR HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS BY SOIL VENTING

MATHEMATICAL MODELS FOR BIODEGRADATION OF CHLORINATED SOLVENTS: I. MODEL FRAMEWORK

Barriers and Transport

INCREASING THE DIVERSION LENGTH OF CAPILLARY BARRIERS

Modeling and Transport

MODELING FATE AND TRANSPORT OF ATRAZINE IN THE SATURATED-UNSATURATED ZONE OF SOIL

FIELD VALIDATION OF THE BACKWARD-IN-TIME ADVECTION DISPERSION THEORY

Nonaqueous Phase Liquids

DENSE NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUID MIGRATION IN A COMPLEX MULTI-AQUIFER SYSTEM

Contaminant Fate and Transport

BENCH-SCALE INVESTIGATIONS ON VIBRATORY MOBILIZATION OF IMMISCIBLE LIQUID GANGLIA

THE BINDING OF ORGANIC CONTAMINANTS TO HUMIN

CONTAMINATED SOIL RECOVERY RATE OF A LEACHER COLLECTION SYSTEM

Risk Assessment

PERCEPTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL RISK IN THREE EL PASO COMMUNITIES

Analytical Methods

A SIMPLE, RAPID, INEXPENSIVE ASSAY FOR TOXIC CHEMICALS USING A BACTERIAL INDICATOR

DEVELOPMENT OF AN INSTRUMENTAL FRACTIONATION AND QUANTITATION SCHEME FOR SELECTED POLYNUCLEAR AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS PRESENT IN EXTRACTS FROM WOOD-PRESERVING WASTE

IN SITU INSTRUMENTATION FOR EVALUATING AIR INJECTION REMEDIATION TECHNOLOGIES

INFRARED PYROMETRY FOR WASTE CHARACTERIZATION

USE OF TRACERS FOR THE CHARACTERIZATION OF SCALE-DEPENDENT SUBSURFACE PROCESSES: INITIAL EVALUATION

Bioremediation

EVALUATION OF SULFUR-BASED AUTOTROPHIC DENITRIFICATION

ANAEROBIC BIODEGRADATION OF TOLUENE IN A PLUG-FLOW REACTOR

Bioremediation and Volatile Compounds

EXPERIMENTAL AND MODELING STUDIES OF THE FATE OF TRICHLOROETHYLENE IN A CHAMBER WITH ALFALFA PLANTS

Posters

RADIONUCLIDE CONTAMINANT ANALYSIS OF RODENTS AT A WASTE BURIAL SITE, LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY

CONTAMINANT MONITORING OF BIOTA DOWNSTREAM OF A RADIOACTIVE LIQUID WASTE TREATMENT FACILITY, LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY

CS-137 CONTAMINATION MEASUREMENTS OF TECHA RIVER BANK TERRITORY IN BRODOKALMAK SETTLEMENT

GAMMA LOCATOR TO DETERMINE SPECTRUM CHARACTERISTICS OF QUANTUM FLUX

ULTRASOUND-ENHANCED COPPER REMOVAL BY HYDROUS IRON OXIDE ADSORPTION

UPTAKE OF STRONTIUM BY CHAMISA (CHRYSOTHAMNUS NAUSEOSUS) SHRUB PLANTS GROWING OVER A FORMER LIQUID WASTE DISPOSAL SITE AT LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY

CELLS ON FOAM AND FIBER

BIOAVAILABILITY OF GENOTOXIC MIXTURES IN SOIL

METABOLISM OF TNT ASSOCIATED WITH ROOTS OF HIGHER PLANTS

MEASURING CONTAMINANT FLUX THROUGH PLANTS BY FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED (FT-IR) SPECTROMETRY

EVALUATION OF TOXICITY OF TRICHLOROETHYLENE FOR PLANTS

MODELING OF HEAVY METAL TRANSPORT AND SOIL EROSION IN SURFACE RUNOFF

FAST NEUTRON THERMALIZATION AND CAPTURE GAMMA-RAY GENERATION IN SOILS

METHODS FOR DETERMINING SOIL CONTAMINANT PROFILES FROM PROMPT-NEUTRON GAMMA ACTIVATION DATA

CLEAN-UP PROCEDURES FOR WASTE WATERS WHICH FLOW FROM REFINERIES AND OTHER CHEMICAL COMPANIES

ADSORPTION OF COPPER IONS FROM SOLUTION BY HEAVY METAL STRESSED LARREA TRIDENTATA (CREOSOTE BUSH) BIOMASS

STRONG OXIDANTS FOR ORGANIC WASTE DESTRUCTION FROM OXIDATION OF MANGANESE HYDROXIDE

DETERMINATION OF THE CONTENT OF HAZARDOUS HEAVY METALS ON LARREA TRIDENTATA GROWN AROUND A CONTAMINATED AREA

NATURAL BIOVENTING REMEDIATION FROM TIDAL WAVE ACTION AT A FIELD SITE

POTENTIOMETRIC ELECTRODES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING OF ORGANOPHOSPHORUS PESTICIDES

HERS: A CENTER FOR RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND COMMUNICATION

POTENTIAL OPTIONS & MANUFACTURING CHANGES FOR ETHYL ETHER IN SUPPORT OF POLLUTION PREVENTION

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