air contaminant sampling News
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Beacon Environmental Services Introduces BESURE Sample Collection Kit™
Bel Air, MD -- Beacon Environmental Services, the international leader in soil gas surveys and vapor intrusion monitoring, introduces their proprietary BESURE Sample Collection Kit™. Unrivalled in its ease-of-use and reliability, the kits are custom packaged for each project to include samplers and all the hand tools and materials a client needs to conduct on-site sampling – providing a fast, ...
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EPA sampling results announced for capital city Plume Site in Montgomery, AL
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the sampling results for part of a remedial investigation of the Capital City Plume site in Montgomery, AL. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) and EPA collected samples of indoor air, outdoor soil gas, and an indoor water sample in August 2011 in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, at two locations considered to be potential ...
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California Residents Concerned over Trichloroethylene and Vapor Intrusion
Last month, Palo Alto’s Mountain View Voice published a story about concerns over toxic chemicals at a former military housing complex. The focus has been on Orion Park ever since trichloroethylene (TCE) has been found in the groundwater and from air samples taken from buildings on the site. The TCE is believed to have contaminated the area from its years of military use. Last ...
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EPA to sample air in homes near MLC moraine, Ohio, facilities; meeting Feb. 17, 6.pm.
In March, Motors Liquidation Co., under U.S. Environmental Protection Agency supervision, will begin collecting indoor air samples from about 60 homes and buildings in Moraine, Ohio’s, Riverview Plat neighborhood. The neighborhood is southwest of the former GM manufacturing complex, now known as MLC Moraine. A meeting to discuss the investigation will be held 6 to 8 p.m, Feb. 17, at the ...
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Idaho Transportation Department settles with EPA for exposing untrained workers and mishandling asbestos waste during shop renovation
The Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) has agreed to a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for alleged violations of federal asbestos regulations. EPA has alleged that ITD hired inmates from the St. Anthony Idaho Work Camp (Idaho Department of Correction) to perform renovation work involving removal of asbestos-containing floor tile at an ITD Maintenance Shop in ...
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EPA signs action memorandum, announces plans for off-site sampling for contaminants at carter carburetor site
EPA Regional Administrator Karl Brooks today signed the Agency’s official Action Memorandum for the Carter Carburetor Site in St. Louis, Mo., placing the polluted industrial property one step closer to a comprehensive cleanup that is estimated to cost at least $27 million. In a separate but related action, Brooks announced today that in response to the concerns of community members and ...
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ASTM D7758 - 11 Standard Practice for Passive Soil Gas Sampling in the Vadose Zone for Source Identification, Spatial Variability Assessment, Monitoring, and Vapor Intrusion Evaluations
Passive soil gas samplers are a minimally invasive, easy-to-use technique in the field for identifying VOCs and SVOCs in the vadose zone. Similar to active soil gas and other field screening techniques, the simplicity and low cost of passive samplers enables them to be applied in large numbers, facilitating detailed mapping of contamination across a site, for the purpose ...
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