contaminated land assessment News

Environment Agency Updates Soil Test Policy

Ashtead Technology Rentals reports a rapid rise in rentals of their portable contaminated land assessment instruments following a recent amendment to UK Environment Agency policy. The qualification requirements for chemical test data on contaminated soils now acknowledges that portable measuring instruments can both improve the quality of contaminated land assessment and reduce costs. Ashtead ...

Feb. 21, 2007

By Ashtead Technology Ltd

Particle found at site of proposed Dounreay Low Level Waste facility

'The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) received notification from DSRL, as per normal practice, of the detection and recovery of a fuel fragment and two shovels worth of radioactive waste. These were detected while DSRL was monitoring the footprint of the proposed new low level waste facility. The active material has been removed. This is the first known find of such a fragment in ...

Aug. 20, 2009

By Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA)

Ashtead Stand under Siege at Sustainability Live!

Commenting on the enormous number of visitors to the Ashtead Technology Rentals stand at Sustainability Live! in early May, General Manager, James Carlyle, says “The level of interest in rental instruments was so high that we had to bring in extra staff to cope with demand. It seems that almost everyone is now looking to rent rather than buy instruments. This is for financial reasons and ...

May 14, 2007

By Ashtead Technology Ltd

Monitoring contamination without excessive cost

Environmental monitoring should be undertaken with the best available technology within reasonable cost constraints (i.e. BATNEEC). However, the best technology is often the most expensive, so instrument rental is increasingly the favoured option. James Carlyle, General Manager at specialist instrument hire company Ashtead Technology Rentals, explains. The requirement for environmental ...

Aug. 4, 2008

By Ashtead Technology Ltd

EPA Provides $400,000 to Assess Contaminated Land in Neptune, New Jersey

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is providing $400,000 to Neptune Township, New Jersey, to assess abandoned and contaminated properties. The funding was awarded through the EPA’s Brownfields program, which helps communities assess, clean up and reuse contaminated properties. Brownfields are properties with moderate contamination which can threaten environmental quality and public ...

May 28, 2015

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA Provides $400,000 to Assess Contaminated Land in Niagara County, New York

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is providing $400,000 to Niagara County, New York, to assess abandoned and contaminated properties. The funding was awarded through the EPA’s Brownfields program, which helps communities assess, clean up and reuse contaminated properties. Brownfields are properties with moderate contamination which can threaten environmental quality and public health ...

May 28, 2015

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Evaluating risks from contaminated soil: a standardised approach

Soil plays an important role, as a habitat capable of recycling water, carbon and nutrients and a provider of food and raw materials. Research investigating the risk assessment procedures adopted in different EU member states, suggests that there needs to be greater standardisation in the methods of assessing risks from contaminated soils. In 2005, the European Commission Joint Research Centre ...

Dec. 5, 2008

By European Commission, Environment DG

EPUK asks Defra not to wash their hands of contaminated land

Environmental Protection UK has called on the government to strengthen the driver for local authorities to act under the contaminated land regime and to steer the development of delivery tools in response to Defra's consultation on proposed new statutory guidance. The contaminated land regime was introduced in 2000 in England and 2001 in Wales. It places statutory duties on local authorities to ...

Mar. 17, 2011

By Environmental Protection UK

Thailand: Implementing The New Soil & Groundwater Contamination Assessment Regulation

The Ministry of Industry, Thailand, enacted the “Ministerial Regulation on Soil and Groundwater Contamination Control in the Factory Area” in April 2016. Under the Regulation certain factories and industrial operations (prescribed operations) are required to conduct soil and groundwater contamination surveys at their facilities on a regular basis and submit a report of the findings in ...

Aug. 8, 2018

By SLP Environmental ASIA - Environmental, Social, Health, Safety & Risk Management Consulting Services

Proposed New Zealand environmental standard for assessing and managing contaminants in soil

The New Zealand Government is proposing to introduce a National Environmental Standard for Assessing and Managing Contaminants in Soil. A proposed standard was notified on 6 February for consultation. The proposed standard is consistent with the purpose of the RMA as it will promote sustainable management by: setting a standard at which land is considered safe for human health;ensuring that land ...

Feb. 19, 2010

By New Zealand Government

EPA Announces Brownfield Grants for Wausau

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced brownfield grants totaling $400,000 for the City of Wausau, Wisconsin, to assess and clean up contaminated sites. EPA Region 5 Administrator Susan Hedman joined Wausau Mayor James Tipple to make the announcement at the Dudley Tower, a redeveloped brownfield site in downtown Wausau. "These brownfield grants will fund assessment and cleanup ...

Jun. 11, 2013

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Integral Consulting says `Aloha from Hawaii` with establishment of new office

Integral Consulting has officially expanded its environmental services to the Hawaiian Islands by establishing a new office in Honolulu. Headed by William Cutler, P.G., the office will initially focus on site investigation, engineering, and remediation services for clients located in this unique, ecologically rich area. Bill Cutler has 23 years of project management experience in ...

Jun. 30, 2009

By Integral Consulting Inc.

A little DRAM is good for you and the environment

As any good Scot will tell you, a little dram (of whisky, usually) is good for you now and then. But researchers at the University of Aberdeen have found that a by-product from the production of Scotland’s national drink can be used to clean contaminated ground and waste water in a pioneering new technique potentially worth millions. The innovative technology – known as DRAM (Device ...

Mar. 21, 2008

By GLOBE SERIES

Safety key to UK nuclear expansion

Nuclear regulators in Britain - and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and the Environment Agency (EA) - have announced that the first step of ‘Generic Design Assessment’ (GDA) carried out on four designs submitted for new nuclear power stations had found shortfalls at this stage - in terms of safety, security or the environment - that would prevent any of them from ultimately ...

Mar. 19, 2008

By Health and Safety Executive (UK)

New Survey Reveals One In Four Commercial Properties Exposed To Environmental Risk

One in four commercial properties in the UK’s largest cities face exposure to potential environmental risks and possible loss in land and property values according to a recent survey from the UK’s leading provider of digital mapping and land data intelligence, Landmark Information Group. The survey, which analysed the incidence of major categories of potential environmental risk within 100 ...

Jan. 18, 2006

By Landmark Information Group

Geostatistics regains interest in the characterization of chemical soil pollutions

To evaluate the pollution impact, such characterization is usually based on various data that should be interpreted and analyzed with an estimation of related uncertainties. Geostatistics has been suitably applied in this framework for about fifteen years. Several Ph.D. theses have been dedicated to the subject, both for chemical and radiological pollution (see for instance this article in ...

Jan. 27, 2015

By Geovariances

CSIRO develops new oil detection technique

Developed in collaboration with waste technology specialist, Ziltek Pty Ltd, the technique means that the presence of petroleum hydrocarbons can now be quantified simply by using a hand-held infrared spectrometer to take readings at the site of interest, without the need to take samples or perform any kind of processing. The technique could be used for oil exploration purposes. It will also be ...

Jul. 29, 2010

By CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Settlement with Current and Former Owners of Chemical Facility in Pleasant Hill, Iowa, to Address Groundwater Contamination

EPA Region 7 has reached a proposed settlement with the current and former owners of the former Townsend Industries Facility, a chemical storage and handling site in Pleasant Hill, Iowa, to address hazardous waste contamination in groundwater resulting from business operations in the 1970s and 1980s. An administrative order on consent, proposed by EPA Region 7 in Lenexa, Kan., requires the ...

Sep. 14, 2015

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

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