Full-Scale Sediment Decontamination Demonstration of Lower Passaic River, NJ Sediments (2006)

E. A. Stern (1), W. S. Douglas (2), K. W. Jones (3), H. E. Feng (4)

(1)U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 2, NY 10007, Stern.Eric@epamail.epa.gov

(2)New Jersey Department of Transportation, Trenton, NJ 08625

(3)Department of Energy - Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973

(4)Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ,fengh@mail.montclair.edu

The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency – Region 2 and the New Jersey Department of Transportation are working together to demonstrate a treatment train system that integrates the dredging and processing of contaminated sediments to manufacture beneficial use products that can be marketed and sold for unrestricted use. The treatment train concept rests on the results of treatment demonstrations (bench through full-scale) that have taken place regionally and internationally over the past decade (1994-2007).  The culmination of this treatment train is being demonstrated during 2005-2007 using lower Passaic River, NJ Superfund sediment and navigational dredged material from the Port of NY/NJ. Consideration of dredging methods, pre-processing and materials handling of sediments, storage concepts, transport from storage location to decontamination facility, decontamination technology demonstrations by BioGenesis Enterprises (sediment washing) and the Gas Technology Institute/Endesco (thermo-chemical rotary kiln), will be presented and the implications for a possible regional treatment facility discussed. 

Work supported in part by the U. S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH108866 and through Interagency Agreement DW89941761-01 between the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U. S. Department of Energy.