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- Title
2,4,6-Trinitrotoluene in soil and groundwater under a waste lagoon at the former Explosives Factory Maribyrnong (EFM), Victoria, Australia.
- Authors
Martel, Richard; Robertson, Timothy; Doan, Minh; Thiboutot, Sonia; Ampleman, Guy; Provatas, Arthur; Jenkins, Thomas
- Abstract
Energetic materials contamination was investigated at the former Explosives Factory Maribyrnong, Victoria, Australia. Spectrophotometric/high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) analysis was utilised to delineate a 5 tonne crystalline 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) source in a former process waste lagoon that was found to be supplying contaminant leachate to the surficial clay aquitard with a maximum-recorded concentration of 7.0 ppm TNT. Groundwater within underlying sand and gravel aquifers was found to be uncontaminated due to upward hydraulic gradients resulting in slow plume development and propagation. Adsorption and microcosm test results from a parallel study were used as input parameters to simulate aqueous TNT transport in the clay aquitard using ATRANS20 software. The simulated TNT plume was localised within a few metres of the source, and at steady state, though leaching rate calculations suggest that without mitigation or other changes to the system, persistence of the source would be approximately 2,000 years. Remediation strategies may involve removal of the near surface source zone and infilling with an impermeable capping to impede leaching while facilitating ongoing natural attenuation by anaerobic degradation.
- Subjects
MARIBYRNONG River Watershed (Vic.); VICTORIA; AUSTRALIA; TNT (Chemical); INDUSTRIAL waste leaching; HYDROGEOLOGY; GROUNDWATER; LEACHATE; AQUIFERS
- Publication
Environmental Geology, 2007, Vol 53, Issue 6, p1249
- ISSN
0943-0105
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00254-007-0713-y