Clean-up of some U.S. contaminated groundwater sites unlikely for decades
Thursday, November 8, 2012 - 16:30
in Mathematics & Economics
At least 126,000 sites across the US have contaminated groundwater that requires remediation, and about 10 percent of these sites are considered "complex," meaning restoration is unlikely to be achieved in the next 50 to 100 years due to technological limitations, says a new report.