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VOLUNTARY CLEANUP REPORT: CROSS MANUFACTURING, INC., LEWIS, KANSAS
Kansas Dept. of Health and Environment, Bureau of Environmental Remediation, 215 pp, 2015

Past operations at the Cross plant included chrome plating. A voluntary cleanup in situ chromium reduction and fixation remedy was completed at the site between 2012 and 2015 to reduce Cr(VI) to the much less toxic and mobile Cr(III). This report describes the completed in situ Cr reduction and fixation remedy, performance monitoring, and site restoration activities. The remedy was completed by delivering the reducing agent calcium polysulfide through direct injection and amendment infiltration galleries, with treatments performed in October 2014 and May 2015.
Report (May be slow to load): https://clu-in.org/download/contaminantfocus/chromium/Cr-Reduction-Cross-KS-2015.pdf
16 Slides: http://www.kdheks.gov/sbcs/2016_Environmental_Conference/In_Situ_Reduction_Hexavalent_Chromium_Deep_Vadose_Zone_Soil_Burns_Carlstens_Holum_Law.pdf



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