Summary

The disposal of the hazardous waste materials in the unlined pits, ponds or even lagoon has a potential threat to the health of humans. It is, therefore, necessary for these waste materials to be disposed-off appropriately to ensure that compliance standards, as well as the general health, has been maintained and observed. Most of the disposal sites used in the recent past have been abandoned and are uncontrolled. These sites need to be remediated, depending on a determination of the level of the risk as well as the health hazard. In some instances, the risks could require emergency action (Grasso 27). In some other cases, an engineering study will be necessary for assessing the situation before undertaking a remedial action. Waste management requires the indiscriminate disposal of the waste such that harm is caused neither to the environment nor human health.

The geoenvironmental assessment will evaluate the land use to understand the best strategy to reclaim the land when it has many wastes. One of the options for remediation is the complete removal of all the waste materials from the site as well as transporting the waste to another location for proper disposal and treatment, and this could be an expensive solution.

Another alternative is on-site remediation. It potentially reduces the proportion of the leachate as well as lessening the chance of underground water contamination. This remediation will include temporary removal of the waste that is hazardous, constructing a landfill on a similar site as well as adequately replacing the wastes (Grasso 87). Such a process could also include treating the contaminated soil or groundwater. The treated soil will be subject to replacement on-site, and thus the treated groundwater will be returned to the aquifer through deep-well injection.

Work Cited

Grasso, Domenic. Hazardous Waste Site Remediation. , 2017. Internet resource.

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