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Contamination/Environmental case study
Orlando Drum Company, Orlando, FL Facility washes and reconditions used drums Mercuri and Associates, Inc. was retained as hydrogeological consultant to verify state allegations of contamination of soil and ground water with heavy metals, pesticides, and volatile organic compounds. Initiated preliminary soil and groundwater sampling program, prepared/submitted to regulatory agency ...
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Environmental forensics: courting science?
Forensics and hydrology are two terms that may not seem to go together well. To the uninitiated, this combination may evoke images of the crime scene investigation that ensues when some patsy goes into the drink wearing cement overshoes. Rather, the term environmental forensics, essentially the parent discipline of forensic hydrology, has found its way into contemporary parlance owing to ...
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Absestos Firm Pins Hope to an RV off eBay
On weekends, or whenever Simona Farrise finds time, she likes to go bargain-hunting on eBay and at garage sales near her home in the Oakland hills. She once picked up a 60-year-old occupational safety manual, a document the lawyer later used in civil trials to show that American auto companies long ago knew—or should have known—about health hazards caused by asbestos exposure. Farrise paid 50 ...
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The Availability of EIL Insurance During the 80’s and Early 90’s
Introduction In Owens-Illinois, Inc. v. United Ins. Co., the New Jersey Supreme Court held that, in allocating insurance coverage for indivisible losses that trigger multiple coverage periods, the policyholder must share pro rata responsibility1 for self-insured, under-insured, and uninsured periods. When the policyholder has decided to forego insurance, as opposed to periods in which insurance ...
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A Court Battle Over Silicosis Shines A Harsh Light On Mass Medical Screeners —The Same People Whose Diagnoses Have Cost Asbestos Defendents Billions
Severe silicosis is a ghastly disease. Caused by prolonged inhalation of tiny sand particles, it slowly scars and contracts the lungs until the victim suffocates. A sandblaster who comes down with an acute case may need a lung transplant before he's 40. Severe asbestosis, which is caused by ~ inhaling minute, spearlike asbestos fibers, is just as bad. It has nearly identical symptoms, and it ...
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Interview with Thomas A. Schwartz - 2014 Chairman of the ASTM Board of Directors
As president and senior principal at Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc., what challenges and opportunities do you see for your company as it prepares to close out its sixth decade of serving a broad client base? SGH has been very fortunate to have had a decades-long unbroken string of growth and expansion of services and client base. As we look to the future, we focus on maintaining the culture, ...
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Designing and Implementing Perimeter Air Monitoring Programs
Perimeter or fenceline ambient air quality and meteorological monitoring programs have become increasingly valuable at hazardous waste, landfill, dredging, ports, and MGP remediation sites. Air quality monitoring programs protect public health and reduce owner liability related to excavation. When ...
By AECOM
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