• An Environmental Management Protocol for the Mitigation of Contaminants Migration from Military Operational Ranges
  • Jung, Jae-Woong;Moon, Hee Sun;Nam, Kyoungphile;
  • National Instrumentation Center for Environmental Management, College of Agriculture and Life Science, Seoul National University;Groundwater Department, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources;National Instrumentation Center for Environmental Management, College of Agriculture and Life Science, Seoul National University;
  • 오염물질 확산방지를 위한 운영중 군 사격장 환경관리방안에 대한 고찰
  • 정재웅;문희선;남경필;
  • 서울대학교 건설환경공학부;한국지질자원연구원 지하수연구실;서울대학교 건설환경공학부;
Abstract
Pollutants such as heavy metals and explosives originating from the military operational ranges can be migrated to adjacent surface water body or offsite soil, and can affect to local residents and aquatic ecosystem. Therefore, Korea Ministry of the National Defense has established various guidelines for environmental management including the installation of pollutant migration prevention facilities (PMPFs) and monitoring methodologies for heavy metals in the operational range soil and effluent and sediment of PMPFs. However, current guidelines neither address the explosive compounds such as 2, 4, 6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) and hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX) nor suggest detailed environmental investigation protocol. This paper introduces the new “Environmental Management Manual for Military Firing Ranges”, which includes the environmental criteria for explosives as well as the detailed investigation protocol for the affected environmental media including soil, effluent and sediment of PMPFs.

Keywords: Explosives;Military firing ranges;Environmental management;Risk assessment;

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This Article

  • 2015; 20(6): 8-18

    Published on Nov 30, 2015

  • 10.7857/JSGE.2015.20.6.008
  • Received on Oct 1, 2015
  • Revised on Nov 5, 2015
  • Accepted on Nov 28, 2015