Welcome to the Great Plains/Rocky Mountain
Hazardous Substance Research Center

Kansas State University (KSU) leads the fourteen-institution consortium for the Great Plains/Rocky Mountain Hazardous Substance Research Center (HSRC). The other member institutions are Lincoln, Haskell Indian Nations, Colorado State, Montana State, South Dakota State, and Utah State Universities, along with the universities of Iowa, Northern Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Utah, and Wyoming. The center was established in 1989 to conduct research pertaining to hazardous substances produced through agriculture, forestry, mining, mineral processing, and other activities. It serves Federal Regions 7 and 8.

Specific research projects focus on soil and water contaminated by heavy metals from mining wastes and other industrial activities, soil and groundwater contaminated by organic chemicals, wood preservatives that contaminate groundwater, pesticides identified as hazardous substances, improved technologies and methods for characterizing and analyzing contaminated soil, and waste-minimization and pollution-prevention methods and technologies.

What's New

• Final Report of the GP/RM HSRC

Also Inside the HSRC Website

• Contact - Get in touch with the Great Plains/Rocky Mountain HSRC. Find contact and personnel information here.
  
  
• Search - Locate exactly what you are looking for using our search engine. Powered by Google, search through the entire site, including the full text of PDF documents.
  
  
• Publications - Read publications from the GP/RM HSRC like the Journal of Hazardous Substance Research and the annual Conference Proceedings.
  
  
• Conferences - Get the latest conference and workshop happenings from around the globe.
  
  
• Programs - Information on projects, initiatives, and programs sponsored by the HSRC, including the TOSC program and the NESC initiative.
  
  
• Research - Research project abstracts and other information from the studies we conduct and sponsor.
  
  
• Phytoremediation - Cleaning up our environment using grass, trees, and other plants.
  
  
• Links - Other relevant sites you might find interesting.

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In October of 2001, the Midwest HSRC at Purdue University and the Rocky Mountain HSRC at Colorado State University were established to continue serving the hazardous substance research and technology transfer needs of EPA Regions 5 and 7, and Region 8, respectively. The grant period for the Great Plains/Rocky Mountain center is ending, and work at this center will be completed during 2002 and 2003. Please use the links above for information on programs and activities of the new centers.