US D 101.2:EN 8/6 B lSO·NU~I~~F\~,~~~~UFFAL(J FEB 1 ti 1995 The U.S. Army Environmental Center (USAEC) is committed to implementing the Army's Environmental Strategy into the 21st Century by providing the highest quality technical and program support services to Headquarters, Department of the Army; major Army commands; and installations. The Center provides these services for all four pillars of the Army environmental program: compliance, cleanup, pollution prevention, and conservation . The USAEC's Environmental Technolog y Di vision is dedicated to providing technical support and guidance in the transfer of environmental technology throughout the U.S. Army . The USAEC Technology Demonstration Program focuses on compliance, cleanup , pollution prevention, and conservation technologies. This program enables the Army to demonstrate the capabilities of emerging environmental technologies under actual working conditions at Army installations while gathering performance and cost information . These technologies-whether equipment, changes to procedure, or modifications to processes-may remain at the demonstration sites continuing their work, or they may be taken to other installations to demonstrate their capabilities . The Army is required to ensure that installations meet all environmental regulations. This includes complying with laws and regulations in wastewater discharge, noise abatement, air quality, and solid and hazardous waste management. The Compliance Technology Team ...-:---- .... ~ supports the active Army and the Army industrial community in keeping abreast of environmental laws which continually cha nge as they are reautho rized by Congress, and for which the implementing regulations are revised. Packed Column Air Stripper Compliance technologies have ranged from granular activated carbon systems to remove explosives from wastewater to X-ray fluorescence equipment to identify lead and other metals in paint on buildings or in the soil. Bioslurry Reactor Numerous Army installations have sites where past industrial operations, testing, or training activities have left chemical substances in the soil, surface water , groundwater, etc. The Restoration Technology Team supports the Army's cleanup effort at these sites by demonstrating , validating , and transferring cleanup technolog y that can be used there . Advanced Oxidation Current team activities include demonstrations of composting and bio~lurry technologies to treat soil that contains explosives, advanced oxidation technology to remove residues of explosives from groundwater , and soil washing / leaching technology to remove heavy metals (e .g., lead). WindrowComposting 0 The Army has vowed to reduce or eliminate pollution at the source for both weapon sys tern acquisition and ins tall a tion operations and management . The Pollution Prevention Technology Team demonstrates and transfers cost-effective industrial process changes and technologies designed to reduce waste generation. Technologies such as Aluminum Ion Vapor Deposition , which replaces cadmium plating and filtration processes to extend paint stripping bath life, have been demonstrated and are now in use . Reuse of Waste Explosives as Supplemental Fuel Metal Parts Degreasing 0 The Army manages about 24 million acres of land with a rich variety of priceless natural and cultural resources. The Conservation Technology Team supports Army installations and activities in the stewardship of these irreplaceable resources. Former Mitchell House, APG (Currentlythe APG Cultural and Natural Resources Learning Center) This team provides technical guidance on the Army's Integrated Training Area Management and Legacyprograms, as well as transfer of technologies to the installations' natural and cultural resources managers . Ongoing activities include adapting remote sensing technologies to monitor training area impacts and the demonstration of a system to select specialized vegetative species for training land re-vegetation . Photo Courtesy of SPOT Image Corporation J 8 The Site Characterization and Analysis Penetrometer System (SCAPS) was developed by the Tri-Services (Army, Navy and Air Force) to provide rapid, cost-effective detection and delineation of subsurface contaminants. SCAPS uses traditional cone penetrometer techniques to evaluate in-sHu geophysical soil properties while simultaneously detecting petroleum, oil, and lubricant (POL) contamination with Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF) technology. Research is progressing to develop additional sensors for detecting the presence of explosives, vola tile organic compounds and metals contamination. EL6A 9#0CA003 8 Congress has also recognized the need for timely development and demonstration of UXO technology. As a result, Congress mandated funds be used to conduct a large-scale UXO technology demonstration at Jefferson Proving Ground, Indiana. The USAEC was chosen as manager for this program. The objective of this program was to identify, evaluate, and determine the baseline for the performance of existing UXO technologies. The USAEC will also manage follow-on congressionally directed UXO technology demonstration programs . Many DoD sites (active installations, formerly used defense sites, base realignment and closure) have areas with unexploded ordnance (UXO). The USAEC has established a program for demonstrating and evaluating technology that can be used for UXO detection, identification, and removal. 8 United States Army Environmental Center Environmental Technology Division Aberdeen Proving Ground, Edgewood Area Maryland 21010-5401 • phone: 410-671-2466 0 Printed on Recycled Paper lllliiii~~~~~i~~imillll! 3 9072 02178053 5