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Review And Evaluation Of Current Design And Management Practices For Land Treatment Units Receiving Petroleum Wastes, J. P. Martin, Ronald C. Sims, J. Matthews

Biological Engineering Faculty Publications

Land treatment is categorized in the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (RCRA) as one of the land disposal options for managing hazardous wastes. Land treatment relies on detoxification, degradation, and immobilization of hazardous waste constituents within the defined treatment zone to ensure protection of surface water, groundwater, and air. Under the authority of Subtitle C of RCRA, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has promulgated regulations governing the treatment of hazardous wastes in land treatment units (40 CRF, Part 264, Subpart M, July, 1982).

This paper describes the land treatment practices used by petroleum waste land treatment facilities in …