The challenge
Containing 22,000 liters of escaped waste from a failed deluge system within an airport hangar.
Containing 22,000 liters of escaped waste from a failed deluge system within an airport hangar.
Evaluate potential treatment options and design an innovative clean-up process to decontaminate the impacted sewer system, minimize damage and allow it to be reopened quickly.
The approach used on the impacted site can be used to treat other impacted sites due to new research and development of sustainable decontamination and remediation processes used.
countries representing Arcadians from Australia, the US and the UK collaborated to accelerate current PFAS research and development technology to implement a solution.
area was decontaminated using sustainable treatment processes and applying purpose-built technology applications.
of highly contaminated waste water treated that would have otherwise been discharged to the environment.
On Monday evening, 10 April 2017, an Australian aviation client reported that 22,000 liters of firefighting escaped from a failed deluge system within an airport hangar at an Australian Airport. Between 66% and 75% of the released foam was captured within the concrete bunded system inside the hangar. The remainder of the released foam escaped and entered the drain system that feeds to several airport pump stations and the sewer.
As technical experts, Arcadis’s first responsibility was to quickly evaluate potential treatment options including offsite disposal of the PFAS impacted water that was temporarily being stored onsite. Concurrently, Arcadis needed to design a clean-up process to decontaminate the PFAS impacted sewer system allowing it to be reopened. Both challenges required the Arcadis team to approach problem solving in an entirely new way.
Finding solutions to potential environmental issues saves lives and protects the environment. Arcadians who worked on the project had the health of potentially impacted people and wildlife on their minds as they worked on an urgent solution.