Countless sites worldwide are contaminated with health-threatening organic, inorganic, and radioactive
materials. Activities such as mining, waste disposal, military operations, energy extraction, agriculture,
and real estate development have resulted in soil and/or groundwater contamination. The EERC is developing
and commercializing technologies that clean up contaminants and restore sites at a manageable cost. EERC
contaminant cleanup and site remediation research is aimed at finding solutions for all combinations of mixed
wastes.
Contaminant Cleanup and Site Remediation Activities
- EERC–U.S. environmental management technology brokering
- Remediation technology development
- Analytical methods development for environmental contaminants
- Groundwater research for the North American oil and gas industry
- Impacts of agricultural chemicals on groundwater quality
- Environmental microbiology
- Waste utilization and disposal
- Coal, uranium, and metal mine reclamation
- Applied geology