Hanford boosts contaminated groundwater cleanup to protect the Columbia River
The Hanford nuclear reservation is expanding its capacity to clean chemical and radioactive contamination from the groundwater.
“That will reduce the time needed to clean up the groundwater,” said Mike Cline, the Department of Energy project director for cleanup of soil and groundwater at Hanford. “The more water we can treat, the quicker we can complete total cleanup.”
The 580-square-mile nuclear reservation sits over about 65 square miles of groundwater contaminated by past practices at the site, such as dumping contaminated liquids into the soil.
Work is being done to pump the contaminated groundwater up through wells, remove the contaminants at six “pump and treat plants” and then inject the cleaned water back into the ground.
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