Rocky Mountain Arsenal Remediation Options
This page was last revised on 20 April 2006.
Here are the options or choices for how your team can deal with the water and solids at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal.
Be sure to make your selection based on your group’s mandate and constituents (questions #1 and #2).
I. Water Remediation Options
A. Groundwater (least expensive to most expensive)
1. leave as
is and monitor for future problems
2. pump groundwater and ship to
treatment plant
3. pump groundwater, treat on
site, ship off site
4. treat groundwater and inject
back into water table
5. other
B. Basin F Water (least expensive to most expensive)
1. leave in place (in storage)
as is
2. detoxify and store on site
3. remove from RMA and detoxify
at another site
4. build a facility to detoxify
at RMA and release into environment
5. other
II. Contaminated Soil and Building Structures Remediation
Options (least expensive to most
expensive)
A.
leave in place as is
B.
detoxify and leave in place
C.
remove from RMA and landfill at another site
D.
build a hazardous waste landfill at RMA and inter waste there
E.
other