Project Leader: Associate Professor Megharaj
Mallavarapu
Duration of Project: January 2006 - December
2007
Project Summary
Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF) products are widely used
across the world for fire-fighting and fire-fighting training. The
constituents of these products have the potential to be persistent
and have biological and ecological impacts. This two year project
will first examine the environmental implications of past and
current AFFF use at selected Defence sites, and assess the
potential for different AFFF formulations to form toxic breakdown
products.
The second stage of the project seeks to develop a rapid
field assessment tool for AFFF products, as well as designing
cost-effective biochemical remediation methodologies.
