Groundwater Remediation
Technology
Contaminant
Site If Applicable
Cost, US $ Per Cubic Meter
References
In Situ
Air sparging
VOCs
$15 per foot for injection wells
Hyman and Dupont (2001)
$5000–$25,000 for air injection pump
Air stripping
VOCs
Capital cost:
Hyman and Dupont (2001)
$250–$400 per gpm through up to
100 gpm
Operating cost:
$20–$50 per pound contaminant
removed
Bioaugmentation
Trichloroethene (TCE),
Fort Dix, NJ, USA
$875 per cubic yard
FRTR (2011)
cis-dichloroethene
(cDCE)
Bioaugmentation
Tetrachloroethene (PCE)
Dover National Test
$11,000 per kg of PCE addressed
FRTR (2008)
Site (DNTS), Dover,
DE, USA
ZVI PRB system
Arsenic (As)
East Helena, MT,
$325,000 to construct
FRTR (2007c)
(20 mg/L) groundwater
USA
(no operating and maintenance
plume size 450 feet wide
cost)
and extends 2100 feet
ZVI: sand (1:1 ratio)
TCE, cis-1,2-DCE,
Industrial Site, SC,
$360,000 to construct
USEPA (2001)
PRB system
Vinylchloride (VC)
USA
(no operating and maintenance
W
× L
× D (1
× 375
× 29 ft)
cost)
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Permeable Reactive Barrier