Abstract
Abstract British Airways in 1987 discovered a leak of jet fuel (kerosene) at Heathrow Airport, west of London. The leak had led to free-phase kerosene floating on top of the shallow water-table beneath the site, with thicknesses of product of almost 1 m in places. WRc alert was employed to undertake a programme of investigations to delimit the free product. Work was then initiated to remove the free product from the water-table and restore the aquifer. This has been successful, with a total of 39 4001 of kerosene being recovered from the site. The recovery of kerosene took about four years of continuous work, illustrating the difficulty of aquifer remediation and the long time involved in remediation programmes.
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