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LATEST TECHNOLOGY: Smartphone AIR SPARGE Systems with Remote Monitoring
LATEST TECHNOLOGY: Smartphone AIR SPARGE Systems with Remote Monitoring SOIL-THERM designs and builds Air Sparging systems for environmental and remediation applications that are full of features and LOW in price. By integrating advanced PLC capabilities into these systems, SOIL-THERM offers our customers a whole new level of capabilities. Typical Air Sparging systems include a blower (p-d, ...
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LATEST TECHNOLOGY: SMARTPHONE Soil Vapor Extraction (SVE) Systems with Remote Monitoring
LATEST TECHNOLOGY: SMARTPHONE-READY Soil Vapor Extraction (SVE) Systems with Remote Monitoring SOIL-THERM EQUIPMENT, INC now designs all environmental remediation systems with Remediation Monitoring and Control (ReMAC) capability! Using ReMac, Operators are able to access their Soil Vapor Extraction or Dual Phase Extraction or thermal system using their Smartphone, iPhone, or iPAD with a ...
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LATEST TECHNOLOGY: Low Cost AIR SPARGING Systems with Remote Monitoring
LATEST TECHNOLOGY: Low Cost AIR SPARGING Systems with Remote Monitoring SOIL-THERM designs and builds Air Sparging systems for environmental and remediation applications that are full of features and LOW in price. By integrating advanced PLC capabilities into these systems, SOIL-THERM offers our customers a whole new level of capabilities. Typical Air Sparging systems include a blower (p-d, ...
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LATEST TECHNOLOGY: Low Cost REMEDIATION SYSTEMS with Remote Monitoring
LATEST TECHNOLOGY: Low Cost SOIL REMEDIATION SYSTEMS with Remote Monitoring SOIL-THERM EQUIPMENT, INC now builds all environmental remediation systems to have Remediation Monitoring and Control (ReMAC) capability! Using ReMac, Operators are able to access their Soil Vapor Extraction or Dual Phase Extraction or thermal oxidizer system using their iPhone or iPAD with a specially designed APP for ...
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EPA to Remove Mercury from Bottom of Pompton Lake in Pompton Lakes, New Jersey
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced its plan to remove mercury contamination from the sediment of the Acid Brook Delta of Pompton Lake in Pompton Lakes, New Jersey to levels that meet stringent standards to protect people’s health and the environment. The plan will go into effect as a modification of a permit, which legally requires the E.I. du Pont de Nemours & ...
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Re-Building the World`s Soil: The Role of Soil Carbon Methodology for U.S. and Global Carbon Offset Projects
The Earth Partners is pleased to announce the validation of its comprehensive soil carbon quantification methodology by the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS). The new methodology provides a credible, science-based approach to measuring soil carbon and reducing or removing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on land-based agriculture, forestry and other land use projects, including ecosystem restorations. ...
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Big Tex Grain Site in San Antonio is Ready for Reuse
The Environmental Protection Agency today announced the Big Tex Grain site in San Antonio has been awarded a certificate by the EPA signifying that the site has been cleaned and ready for reuse. Potential uses for the site include residential, retail or commercial, but remain subject to local zoning ordinances and all other applicable laws. The Big Tex Grain site, owned by Big Tex San Antonio, ...
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Arsenic poisoning stalks India`s gold mines
Scientists have found high levels of arsenic in the soil and groundwater near a gold mine in the south Indian state of Karnataka, highlighting health hazards associated with mining the precious metal. A team of scientists that conducted studies in the Kiradalli Tanda village of Yadgir district discovered arsenic contamination in groundwater 30 times higher than the limit of 10 parts per billion, ...
By SciDev.Net
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TIP: Experts on drought and dust
In the 1930s, severe drought in the United States coupled with widespread soil degradation from unsound farming practices led to the Dust Bowl—a period of massive dust storms that caused damage to millions of acres of farmland and forced hundreds of thousands of people to abandon their homes. Now that a host of soil conservation measures are in place, the Dust Bowl is mainly thought of as ...
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Argentine judge slaps embargo on $19 billion in chevron assets
In a major blow to Chevron’s effort to avoid paying a historic $19 billion environmental judgment in Ecuador, an Argentine judge today signed the first of what is expected to be many orders freezing billions of dollars of assets owned by the U.S. oil company. The order, signed by Civil Judge Adrian Elcuj Miranda of the Commercial Court of Justice in Buenos Aries, freezes almost all Chevron ...
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Soil experts recreate soils from Mars
Soil experts from Cranfield University have developed a replica soil for Mars in a project for the European Space Agency (ESA) to help maximise the performance of the next robotic rovers to be sent to the planet. The ‘soil surrogate’ is one of a number of soil types characterized by the current NASA Mars Exploration Rovers (MER), Spirit and Opportunity, which were sent to Mars in ...
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The phosphorus index: changes afoot
Twenty years after its inception, the continued need for water quality improvement has led to a call for further advancement of the Phosphorus Index Phosphorus (P) is both an essential nutrient in agricultural fields and a contributor to poor water quality in surface waters. To encourage improved P management in fields, the P Index was proposed as a risk assessment tool in 1992. After 20 years ...
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EPA Region 7 Provides $2.4M to Joplin, Mo., to Sample and Remediate Contaminated Soils Disturbed by May 2011 Tornado
EPA Region 7 will provide an additional $2.4 million to the City of Joplin, Mo., to help sample and remediate lead and cadmium-contaminated soils that were disturbed during the May 2011 tornado and subsequent recovery efforts. The new federal funding, announced today by EPA and city officials, should allow Joplin to replace soils and restore yards at an estimated 240 homes, parks, playgrounds ...
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DDM & TA’AZ Join Forces to Create TA’AZ Environmental
DDM Geotechnical Services are based in the UAE, serving the Middle East markets. DDM’s Joint Venture with TA’AZ, will trade as TA’AZ Environmental, offering the Iraq market the complete array of onshore and offshore soil investigation and GeoSolutions services, plus MicroROV inspection and sand & sludge cleaning services. CPT Clients are often lead to believe that ...
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Asbestos Removal Taking Place Next to HealthCare Clinic Worries Patients
Tulare Regional Medical Center, an asbestos abatement site located next to the Hillman HealthCare Clinic in Tulare, received an unannounced visit by a state inspector checking the progression of its asbestos removal. Although the inspector reported that the worksite is safe and secure, patients at the Hillman Clinic are still concerned due to the two buildings’ close proximity. Asbestos ...
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U.S. EPA, Hawaii Department of Health clean up soil in Kilauea neighborhood
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Hawaii Department of Health have completed a Superfund Removal Program cleanup removing over 814 tons of contaminated soil from residential and commercial property in Kilauea, Kauai. The site was once a pesticide mixing and storage area at the former Kilauea Sugar Mill. “As a result of this toxic soil cleanup, the local residents are safer ...
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Asbestos in Chinese Cars Recall Expands to Five More Countries
According to Bloomberg News, China’s largest car exporter, Chery Automobile Co., is expanding their car recall in Australia to five more countries after detecting asbestos in some models. The company will be recalling a total of 18,875 cars in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Singapore and Uruguay–in addition to 23,000 cars already recalled in Australia. The recall was announced after ...
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Due to Asbestos Contamination, National Park Closes 30 Acres of Coastline
The Republic reports that authorities have closed 30 acres of land on Horn Island, located in Mississippi, until further notice while asbestos contamination is removed. The asbestos was detected on tiles at a former biological testing site utilized by the U.S. Army. Today, the park is a popular recreational destination that has been reserved for the protection of natural and historical ...
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Soil Cleanup to Start at Solvent Savers Superfund Site in Lincklaen, NY
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that a $10 million cleanup of contaminated soil will begin in mid- to late September at the Solvent Savers Superfund site, a chemical waste recovery facility, in Lincklaen in Chenango County, New York. Soil and ground water on the site were contaminated with volatile organic compounds and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) by past waste ...
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Fleet of analysers designed to meet every need
Instrumentation specialist Ashtead Technology has added the portable Olympus DELTA DS2000 XRF Handheld Metals Analyser to its fleet of rental equipment. Marketing Manager Stewart Curtis says “This means that customers now have access to a range of XRF analysers for just about any application.” XRF (X-Ray Fluorescence) analysers enable the chemical, non-destructive analysis of metals ...
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