ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an information on source control strategies, stabilization/solidification strategies, well systems, interceptor systems, surface capping and liners, sheet piling, grouting and slurry walls. Source control strategies represent attempts to minimize or prevent ground water pollution before a potential polluting activity is initiated. Source control strategies are most applicable in the design of new facilities as a component of one or more ground water pollution prevention steps. One means of reducing the threat to ground water from land disposal of waste materials is to structurally isolate the waste material in a solid matrix prior to landfilling. Well systems for ground water pollution control are based on manipulating the subsurface hydraulic gradient through injection or withdrawal of water. The single most important construction aspect of well systems is the installation of the wells. The total cost of a well system is dominated by two individual cost items: the cost of the installation, and operation and maintenance costs.
