Hanford Team Finishes Jobsite Transformation With Paving

RICHLAND, Wash. – EM’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant team recently finished the final phase of jobsite roadway and parking lot paving work for Hanford’s Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste (DFLAW) facilities. The DFLAW Program is a system of interdependent projects and infrastructure improvements, managed and highly integrated as a single program, that must operate together to vitrify the tank waste, which means to immobilize it in glass. The team joined with local subcontractor Inland Paving to apply the final stretch of nearly 219,000 square feet of asphalt. The final paving and striping sequence included the roadway north of the Analytical Laboratory, roadways surrounding the Effluent Management Facility, shown here, and a driveway entrance/exit for the Immobilized Low-Activity Waste transportation staging area. The first of three phases of paving began in spring 2020 and immediately transformed the jobsite from its nearly 20-year construction environment to one more closely resembling a finished, nearly operational plant.