The U.S. Department of Energy established the Environmental Sciences Laboratory (ESL) in Grand Junction, Colorado, in 1991 to support its programs. ESL scientists perform applied research and laboratory-scale demonstrations of soil and ground water remediation and treatment technologies.

 

Capabilities

- Installation, monitoring, and operation of permeable reactive barriers

- Research for permeable reactive barriers and treatment cells

- Performance assessment and optimization of ground water remediation systems

- Ground water characterization

- Coupled hydrogeochemical modeling for ground water remediation

- Soil and ground water phytoremediation

- Design and monitor landfill covers

- Analogs of long-term performance of waster disposal cells

- Water balance studies, lysimetry, and vadose zone monitoring

Facilities/Equipment

- Contaminant transport laboratory

- Segmented test columns

- Ground water modeling laboratory

- Plant ecophysiology equipment

- Mobile laboratory

- Lysimeter test facility

- Analytical equipment

- Petrographic laboratory

- Soil analysis

Permeable Reactive Barriers

ESL Reports (with full text)

List of ESL Publications