Superfund Research Program
Bioremediation of Chlorinated Solvent Compounds: In Situ Remediation Strategies and Predictive Tools for Controlling Contaminated Plumes
Project Leader: John Ferguson
Grant Number: P42ES004696
Funding Period: 1995 - 2006
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Final Progress Reports
Year: 2005 1999
In the past year, publications were prepared describing work in three major areas, including extension of a model for anaerobic transformation of perchloroethylene (PCE) to applications as an in situ treatment barrier, description of a psychrotrophic culture that partially dehalogenates PCE, and development of an actinomycetes culture in a gas treatment system for trichloroethylene degradation. Substantial progress has also been made in developing an anaerobic culture that mineralizes vinyl chloride and in using molecular tools to characterize our mixed cultures and to identify isolates from them. Each of these efforts is continuing, and project investigators are actively working to develop field-testing at a nearby Superfund site (East Gate Disposal Yard, Fort Lewis, Washington).