Still a decade from the first alarm of PFAS reaching and contaminated drinking water nothing have happens with the source of contaminating. Fire practices sites scattered around Sweden and rest of the world is still open to weather. Witch slowly wash out the PFAS into the groundwater and threatens our drinking water.
“Fyto-PFAS” is a attempt to address this problem. By establish a cap with growing Willow witch reduce the amount av rain water reaching the PFAS and slowing down the leaching. Combing with pumping up groundwater from the plume, treat it by foam fracturing and irrigate the treated water onto the willow we will empty the soil from PFAS. Foam fracturing remove the long chain and willow the short chain and the willow also stabilize the soil by transport carbon into the soil.
This is a cooperation between Uppsala University, Högskolan Kristianstad, Räddningstjänsten Kristianstad and Laqua treatment.
Today we was on the hot spot in Kristianstad to collect some samples to confirm we have soil with high contains of PFAS (5000ng/g Ts) for our upcoming trials.
We will put up pilots with different treatments trains, more info will follow.
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