The Waste Management and Technologies Analytical Database System (WMTADS) offers a centralized place for both information retrieval and data analysis and provides a variety of applications to assist in waste management and technology selection processes.
WMTADS began development in 1992. That development involved the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Environmental Management, Los Alamos National Laboratory (Chemical Science and Technology Division) and Summitec Corporation. The system was designed to identify, track, organize, maintain, and update information on wastes, waste treatment facilities, and waste treatment technologies within the DOE complex. WMTADS houses information on all of the hazardous waste streams, facilities to treat these waste streams, and technologies both existing and under development to characterize, treat, and handle hazardous waste for storage and disposal.
The system consists of several databases, including databases from outside sources (e.g., EPA), all related to hazardous waste management. It also supports a set of analytical tools for information retrieval and for a variety of data analysis applications. It can be used to match wastes to treatment technologies.
In order to meet future needs of DOE, information is being collected in the areas of thermal treatment and bioremediation, industry treatment capabilities, and radioactive waste treatment facilities. Although information is site specific, it is applicable to the entire DOE complex.
The database system can be accessed through a server on Internet. DOE, the Department of Defense, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, federal and state regulatory agencies, and governors' offices of states where DOE manages waste have access to WMTADS. With Internet connection, the file transfer protocol can be used to transfer files from the server to the user's computer. Information is available through World Wide Web (WWW) using Mosaic (utilities provided free for WWW Server).
