Abstract: A method used for in situ remediation of contaminated subsurface ground and subsurface water using chemically or biologically reactive sheets. The reactive or active sheets contain one or more selected compounds capable of recovering, destroying, degrading and immobilizing contaminants in the soil or water. The compounds that will be selected depends on the contaminants to be treated. The compound may be diatomaceaous earth pellets or other porous materials inoculated with selected non-pathogenic microbes, a zero-valent metal such as iron, tin, aluminum and zinc, a leachable compound such as sodium percarbonate or an adsorptive compound such as activated carbon and zeolite. The contaminants may be petroleum hydrocarbons, chlorinated hydrocarbons and other hazardous chemicals.

Abstract: A method for in-situ bioremediation of contaminated ground water and surface water using a porous wall filled with porous inorganic support spheres such as diatomaceous earth pellets treated by inoculation with selected non-pathogenic microbes, ie. bacteria, for destroying or converting the contaminant. The contaminants may be petroleum hydrocarbons, chlorinated hydrocarbons and other chemicals. The porous cells of the diatomaceous earth pellets provide a home not only for the microbes but also for oxygen, water and nutrients to help sustain the life of the augmented colonies of microbes introduced in the pellets. The method, in one embodiment, includes the digging of a trench perpendicular to the movement of the ground water and downstream from the contamination. The trench is dug below the level of the contaminated ground water and is filled with the porous inorganic support spheres creating the porous wall.