Proceedings of the 12^th Annual Conference on Hazardous Waste Research

Building Partnerships for Innovative Technologies

May 19-22, 1997
Kansas City Airport Hilton
Kansas City, Missouri

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

Editors
Larry E. Erickson
Mary M. Rankin
Stanley C. Grant
J. Patrick McDonald

Design and Layout
Carla A. Wolfe

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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. Department 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.

PREFACE

The 12^th Annual Conference on Hazardous Waste Research was organized by the Great Plains/Rocky Mountain Hazardous Substance Research Center (HSRC) headquartered at Kansas State University. The conference was held May 19-22, 1997, at the Kansas City Airport Hilton in Kansas City, Missouri. The conference program consisted of 86 oral and 54 poster presentations, plenary addresses, and luncheon addresses.

The sessions of the conference were metals, remediation of munitions compounds, analytical methods, remediation, vegetation-based remediation, vegetation-based bioremediation, nonaqueous phase liquids, biofilms and barriers, and partnerships and technology innovation. Held in conjunction with the conference were the HSRC's Science Advisory Committee meeting and the Training and Technology Transfer Committee meeting. Also held in conjunction with the conference were four workshops.

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, "1997, 12^th Annual Conference on Hazardous Waste Research, Kansas City, Missouri." The abstracts for which complete papers were not submitted for publication can also be viewed on the Web by following the same procedure and choosing "Abstracts" under the heading "1997, 12^th Annual Conference on Hazardous Waste Research, Kansas City, Missouri."

This conference was co-sponsored by the Great Plains/Rocky Mountain Hazardous Substance Research Center; the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; The Waste-management Education and Research Consortium; the National Mine Land Reclamation Center; and the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences. Cooperating Supporters were Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence; Air Force Office of Scientific Research; Allied Signal Federal Manufacturing and Technology; Army Research Office; Black and Veatch, Inc.; Burns & McDonnell; Department of the Interior, Office of Surface Mining, Office of Technology Transfer; Interagency Environmental Technology Office for the White House National Environmental Technology Strategy; Kansas Department of Health and Environment; Midwest Research Institute; Terracon Environmental, Inc.; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Innovative Technologies Program; U.S. Department of Defense (Environmental Security, Region 7); and U.S. Department of Energy - Kansas City Office.

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