October 01, 2009
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Soil & Groundwater Newsletter October 01, 2009 |
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Safeguarding our soils for the future
Measures to protect and improve our soil to meet rising demand for food and to combat climate change have been unveiled by Environment Secretary Hilary Benn. England’s soil has suffered over the last 200 years from the impacts of intensive farming and industrial pollution, and today is under threat from erosion by wind and rain, a loss of organic matter and nutrients, and pressure for development. Safeguarding our Soils, published this week, sets out how the government plans to halt and reverse the degradation of England’s soil over the next 20 years, working with farmers and other land ... |
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Recovery Act funding to accelerate cleanup of soil at MO superfund site
EPA Region 7 has awarded a contract to an Ohio environmental firm to proceed with the cleanup of lead-contaminated soils at approximately 800 residential properties within the Madison County Mines Superfund Site in southeast Missouri. The contract is supported by more than $9.8 million in funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. Environmental Quality Management, Inc., of Cincinnati, has a two-year base period with one option year, and a maximum possible award of $13,915,694, under the contract. Total ARRA funding for the contract is $9,885,000. The funding ... |
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