Development of treatment media for advanced stormwater treatment at an industrial site

The Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) occupies about 2,850 acres and is located in Ventura County, California. The site is jointly owned by the Boeing Company and the federal government (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration administers the federal portion of the property). Much of th...

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Published in:Water practice and technology 2019-03, Vol.14 (1), p.81-87
Main Authors: Pitt, R. E., Clark, S. E., Steets, B.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aeronautics
Aircraft industry
Biofiltration
Chlorinated hydrocarbons
Constituents
Dioxins
Discharge
Effluents
Energy research
Engine tests
Federal government
Laboratories
Metals
Organic chemistry
Pollutants
Quality control
Robustness (mathematics)
Rocket engine tests
Rocket engines
Stormwater
Stormwater management
Water quality
Water quality control
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Summary:The Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) occupies about 2,850 acres and is located in Ventura County, California. The site is jointly owned by the Boeing Company and the federal government (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration administers the federal portion of the property). Much of the site was historically used as a rocket engine testing and energy research facility from 1949 to 1998. The site stormwater discharges are permitted by the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board through an individual industrial NPDES permit that includes numeric effluent limits for a wide range of constituents, including dioxins and metals. A large portion of the site uses distributed source stormwater controls with natural treatment systems utilizing chemically active media. As part of this approach, extensive research was conducted to develop a robust media for use in these controls to meet the discharge objectives. This paper describes the development of the media and its characteristics.
ISSN:1751-231X
1751-231X
DOI:10.2166/wpt.2018.111