groundwater contamination Articles

Location: Vancouver, BC Owner: Confidential Description: Environmental forensics investigation ongoing to determine the source of chlorinated solvents (PCE, TCE, 1,1,1-TCA1,1,DCE) and 1,2-dichlorobenzene contamination at a site that has changed owners in the past 25 years. Advanced Forensic Techniques used include hydrolysis equation for dating ...

Cognition Land and Water Ltd, a UK based remediation specialist, has hired a portable XRF metals analyser to improve the speed of remediation work at a project in London’s Kentish Town. The project had a major impact on local residents so timescales were extremely tight but Cognition’s Charlie Jarvis says “It would not have been ...

Quick and easy access in deep wells Geotech low flow groundwater analysis equipment has enabled quick and easy access to samples at 2m intervals down a 28m screen in deep boreholes. Elizabeth Guilford of Norfolk County Council hired the low flow kit from Geotech and used it on a Norfolk CC landfill where leachate contamination of groundwater was ...

Client: Confidential Location: Somerset, Southwest England, UK Services: Strategic Advice on Brownfield Development, Site Investigation, Risk Assessment Summary: ESI was able to identify options for managing land contamination to maximise the value of site divestment, based on high quality site investigation and risk assessment ESI was ...

Project Remediation Strategies were retained to assist a large chemical facility with the long term management of a groundwater contamination issue. Contaminants had historically entered groundwater following a spill event and despite previous remediation works by others, a residual contaminant plume remained present and was continuing to migrate ...

Edible oil was injected at five sites to promote reductive dechlorination. The edible oil was injected as a non-aqueous phase liquid (NAPL) or as an emulsion of oil, an emulsifier, and water. At Dover Air Force Base, injection of the emulsion into a barrier resulted in greater distribution of the total organic carbon (TOC) and more rapid ...

In this pilot study, BOS 100® was used at a former uniform and formal-wear rental service site that engaged in dry cleaning activities from 1979 to 2002.  When soil and groundwater contamination was discovered in 1998, AST spills used for virgin PCE were associated with the contamination. A pilot study using BOS 100® reduced PCE ...

A reach of the San Pedro River flows east of the Apache Powder Superfund Site and west of the Town of St. David in Cochise County, Arizona. As a result of the remedial investigations associated with the Superfund Site, this reach has been surveyed extensively since the mid-1980’s from approximately the Escalante Crossing to the Pomerene Diversion. ...

INTRODUCTION Groundwater contamination at the Apache Powder Superfund Site in Cochise County, Arizona includes dissolved nitrate-N and perchlorate. Past studies have determined that these contaminants migrate laterally from a perched zone underlying Apache Nitrogen Products, Inc. operating areas into the shallow aquifer of the San Pedro River ...