Soil & Groundwater E-Zine
August 2009

This Month´s Featured Articles, Papers & Reports
A 10-year prospective on remediation
For the last thirty years we have all been working very hard to put ourselves out of the remediation business, so why be concerned with where  remediation will be ten years in the future? In responding to environmental legacies of the past hasn’t industry put policies and procedures in place to prevent the creatin of future liabilities? Don’t we design and operate facilities today to minimize the generation of wastes and the potential for spills, releases and discharges? If so, how can there be ...
Dressing down groundwater contamination
Unlike the late Paul Newman, who bottled his special-recipe salad dressing and sold it in supermarkets, Dr. Robert Borden simply mixes up his own `dressing` and pumps it into the ground. That’s because the environmental engineering professor and his graduate students are more interested in feeding microbes to clean up contaminated groundwater than in making just another Ranch dressing. “It’s really very similar to salad dressing,” Borden says of his creamy blend of soybean oil and other ingredients. ...
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