FIRING RANGE TREATMENT TECHNOLOGY

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@igc.org>]

FIRING RANGE TREATMENT TECHNOLOGY

Defense Cleanup (May 30, 1997) reports that Solucorp Industries of W. 
Nyack, NY, has just received an Army subcontract from the Roy R. Weston 
company to treat 25,000 cubic yards of heavy-metal contaminated soil at 
a firing range at the Alabama Army Ammunition Plant. "Solucorp 
officials say its molecular bonding system (MBS) involved combining 
contaminated soils with a reagent inside a closed loop pug mill to 
reduce leachability and allow disposal in a landfill." This innovative 
technology is not only cheaper than current metal stabilization 
methods, but it converts leachable metals into metallic sulfides 
without generating hydrogen sulfide gas.

As the requirement to treat firing range soils is more clearly 
established, more innovative treatment technologies are likely to emerge.

Lenny Siegel