PCB migration in a 24 year old PCB Storage Facility
Dan Jones, Rebecca McWatters, Jeff Markle, R. Kerry Rowe 
In the proceedings of: GEO2010 Calgary: 63rd Canadian Geotechnical Conference & 6th Canadian Permafrost ConferenceSession: W1-B
ABSTRACT: ionina24yearoldPCBStorageFacilityDanJones,RebeccaMcWatters,R.KerryRoweGeoengineeringCentreatQueen's-RMC,DepartmentofCivilEngineeringŒQueen'sUniversity,Kingston,Ontario,CanadaJeffMarkleMinistryofEnvironmentOntario,London,Ontario,CanadaABSTRACTIn2009,allPolychlorinatedBiphenyl(PCB)contaminatedmaterialsinthePottersburgstoragefacilitywereexcavatedforpermanentdisposal.DepthprofilesofPCBconcentrationsobtainedthroughthecoverandlinersysteminCell2arereported.TheimplicationswithrespecttocontaminantmigrationofPCBsoverthe24yearperiodsincethewastewasplacedarediscussed.Furtherprojectinvestigationsareoutlinedincludingthecharacterizationofthegeomembraneandclaylinermaterialsbyconductinglaboratorydiffusiontestsusingbenzene,toluene,ethylbenzeneandxylenes(BTEX)andPCBsastracers
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Dan Jones; Rebecca McWatters; R. Kerry Rowe; Jeff Markle (2010) PCB migration in a 24 year old PCB Storage Facility in GEO2010. Ottawa, Ontario: Canadian Geotechnical Society.
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