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Facilitated Transport

Facilitated transport is an issue identified by the forum as a concern of Superfund decision-makers. Any process that has the potential to speed the transport of a pollutant beyond what is expected based solely on considerations of idealized Darcian flow and equilibrium sorptive interactions with an immobile solid phase has been broadly termed, “facilitated transport”.

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