BIOAUGMENTATION FOR MTBE REMEDIATION - Bioaugmentation for Groundwater Remediation - page 297

10.5 FULL SCALE BIOAUGMENTATION
10.5.1 MC-100 and SC-100 (Port Hueneme, California, USA)

ASU, Equilon and the NAVFAC ESC collaborated on a full-scale system encompassing the
500-ft (152-m) wide MTBE plume at the Port Hueneme NBVC. The system was constructed
immediately downgradient of the source zone (Figure 10.7 ) and operated and monitored for

Air Oxygen Air

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Figure 10.7. Plot plan of site layout and snapshots of the Port Hueneme full-scale oxygen plume
over the evaluation period (from Johnson et al., 2003 ).