Chromium Bioremediation The Hanford Site Experiments
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  • Geologic conditions
    • Lithology
    • Layering
  • Hydrogeologic conditions
    • Depth to the water table and seasonal water level fluctuations
    • Directions of flow paths and groundwater velocity between the injection and monitoring wells (tracer test, etc.)
    • Zones of preferential flow
  • Depth of drilling to minimize the cost
  • Other contaminants and geochemical conditions
  • Be sure that the zones of influence of the injection and monitoring wells intersect each other
    • Consider alternative methods for HRC injection
      • Linear source
      • injection through the trench
      • injection through a horizontal well
    • Areal (spatially distributed or discrete intervals) injection
  • Consider an option of groundwater pumping through a monitoring well
  • HRC injection
    • Changes the formation permeability
    • HRC solubility and the diffusion coefficient in groundwater from Hanford
    • The zone of influence of HRC in the formation
  • A preliminary bench-scale and small-scale field injection test
  • Using geophysics to control the zone of HRC distribution in the formation during injection and its degradation over time