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Video by Chelsea Smith
'Boiling Hot' Leads to Cool Results
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District
Nov. 8, 2016 | 1:42
Army officials are breaking ground on a decades-long environmental remediation project to lift contaminants out of acres of land located on Redstone Arsenal near Huntsville, Alabama.
Across football field-sized areas that became contaminated with industrial chemicals, workers employ a hot new approach to soil and groundwater remediation. They use an environmental treatment method called electrical resistance heating (ERH) to boil contaminates out of acres of land for reutilization.

(U.S. Army Corps of Engineers video by Chelsea Smith)
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