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Closure of chlorinated solvent-contaminated sites

Risk-Based Decisions, Inc. has successfully cleaned up or otherwise obtained regulatory sign-off on 21 chlorinated solvent sites between 1996 and 2008. If you have a chlorinated solvent soil or groundwater site, contact us for cost-effective, innovative and timely cleanop approaches. No pump-and-treat ...

Jun. 16, 2008

By Risk-Based Decisions, Inc.

Hanford site treating record amount of contaminated groundwater

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) contractor CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company (CH2M HILL) has exceeded this year’s goal for treating 1.4 billion gallons of contaminated groundwater at the Hanford Site in Washington state. “In the last few years, DOE built three new groundwater treatment facilities, and now we are seeing the results," said Briant Charboneau, Federal Project ...

Jul. 15, 2013

By US Department of Energy

US$74m in grants to rejuvenate contaminated industrial sites

Communities in 43 states will share more than $74 million in brownfields grants to help revitalize former industrial and commercial sites, turning them from problem properties to productive community use. The grants, awarded by the US Environmental Protection Agency, also go to two tribes and two US Territories. “By revitalizing and restoring neighborhoods nationwide, EPA’s Brownfields Program ...

Apr. 8, 2008

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Federal contaminated sites – the problem that won’t go away

Thousands of abandoned industrial and military sites across Canada owned by the federal government, contain soils contaminated with PCBs, hydrocarbons, asbestos and heavy metals. Although remediation of these sites has been declared a key federal priority, the number of such sites in Canada remains surprisingly high and the rate of remediation of these sites remains low. Across Canada, ...

Apr. 10, 2008

By GLOBE Foundation

Scots turn to whisky in battle to clean contaminated sites

Scottish scientists have developed a technology to clean contaminated land and water which relies on a by-product of the whisky-making process. The Device for the Remediation and Attenuation of Multiple Pollutants - affectionately known by its creators as the DRAM - is said to remove a variety of contaminants cheaper and faster than most current clean-up techniques. The designers claim that the ...

Mar. 19, 2008

By edie.net - Faversham House Ltd.

PEN announces report on contaminated site remediation

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Projecton Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN) announced the availability of an article entitledNanotechnology and In situ Remediation: A review of the benefits and potential risks, whichdiscusses the use of nanomaterials in the environmental cleanup process. According to thearticle, nanomaterials have the potential to reduce the costs and time of ...

Jul. 8, 2009

By Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

Survey detects contamination on proposed waste disposal site

Two small areas of radioactive contamination have been detected during a survey of grazing land adjacent to the former nuclear research site at Dounreay. They were excavated and removed to the site for analysis. One was identified as a 'minor' particle of fast reactor fuel and the other as soil contaminated with radioactivity. The finds were 5-30cm below the surface and covered by vegetation, ...

Aug. 19, 2009

By Dounreay Site Restoration Limited (DSRL)

Work Begins to Remove Contamination at Newtown, Conn. Site

This week EPA began work to remove contaminated materials from the Batchelder site at 46a Swamp Road in Newtown, in Fairfield County, Connecticut. The cleanup is expected to be completed in approximately two months. Contamination at the Site does not present health risks to the neighboring area; however, Town officials would like to remind residents that it is important to remain off the site. ...

Oct. 25, 2012

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Contaminated Site Remediated in 4 months (Clay)

CROOKS FARM – FT PIERCE, FLORIDA FDEP FACILITY ID#56-9807808 A discharge at the above site had contaminated the soil and groundwater. The soil characteristic on this site was sandy soil from 0’ to 2’ and dense nonpermiable gray clay from 2’ to 15’. Groundwater fluctuated between 3’ to 6’. The phase II assessment on May 19, 2004 had determined that approximately 500 cubic yards of ...

Feb. 23, 2007

By Biovation Environmental Services, LLC

NJDEP issuing remedial priority scores for contaminated sites

Very shortly, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) will be issuing letters to responsible parties containing a draft Remedial Priority Score (RPS) for their particular site. It is unclear how the rankings will be used, but the RPS system has been described as a tool to sort sites out for further discussion. The ...

Nov. 7, 2011

By The Law Office of Christopher D. Hopkins, LLC

Monitoring of 120 VOCs on site without risk of contamination

CHROMATOTEC is continuously developing new applications with one common objective: providing automatic field expertise. The last application sold for industrial area in Shanghai is designed for continuous monitoring of more than 120 VOCs compounds with auto GC 866 FID/MS (airmoSCAN XPERT). This system is totally designed for automatic online monitoring in fixed or mobile station ...

Feb. 4, 2016

By Chromatotec Group

3rd national meeting of research on contaminated sites | Synthesis

The synthesis of the 3rd national meeting of research on contaminated sites has just been released. The French Environment agency Ademe together with the French Ministry for Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy organized the 3rd national meeting of research on contaminated sites and lands in November ...

Oct. 13, 2015

By Geovariances

Dounreay publishes off-site contamination report

Dounreay today publishes the findings of its investigation into the discovery of a radioactive particle in land adjacent to the licensed site. The investigation report has been distributed to the land-user and nearby residents following its submission to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency. It can be downloaded ...

Sep. 17, 2009

By Dounreay Site Restoration Limited (DSRL)

EPA powers up contaminated sites into renewable energy

In a novel approach to return land to productive use, EPA has identified thousands of properties that could potentially host solar, wind or biomass energy production facilities. EPA pinpointed these energy assets using Google Earth and has listed each property’s attributes for energy redevelopment. “EPA is putting renewable energy production on the virtual map,” said EPA Administrator Stephen L. ...

Sep. 24, 2008

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

New Zealand government funding boost for contaminated sites

Four contaminated site projects, in Bay of Plenty, Canterbury, Otago, and Tasman and Nelson, will be allocated about NZ$150,000 from the Government’s clean-up fund, Environment Minister Trevor Mallard announced. The allocations are the first from the Ministry for the Environment’s Contaminated Sites Remediation Fund this year. A total of NZ$890,000 of the US$3.28 million annual fund is ...

Aug. 18, 2008

By New Zealand Government

Land Contamination

Land Contamination Identified: Contaminated land is a constant battle for developers looking to build houses / industrial sites or purpose built facilities. Contamination simply means an unacceptable risk to human health or the environment and therefore remediation or site clean up is required. Identifying contamination requires assessment, measurement and remediation. The primary contaminants ...

Feb. 16, 2011

By Shawcity Limited

Mexico `fails` to enforce environmental law over contaminated electronics site

On 22 February, the Instituto de Derecho Ambiental, Colonia Jardines del Sol and Colonos de Bosques de San Isidro (the 'Submitters') filed a submission with the Secretariat of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) asserting that Mexico is failing to effectively enforce its environmental law in connection with a contaminated site located in Zapopan, Jalisco, on which construction of ...

Mar. 5, 2008

By The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC)

Current, former owners of Earlysville, Va., aircraft plant to investigate site contamination

In a settlement announced today by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the former and current owners and operators of Avionics Specialties Inc. in Earlysville, Va., have agreed to investigate discharges of hazardous chemicals into the soil and groundwater at the manufacturing plant and to evaluate alternatives for cleanup of the releases. The 12-acre facility, located in Albermarle County ...

Jun. 14, 2012

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA, DOE partner to develop renewable energy on potentially contaminated sites

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are evaluating the feasibility of developing renewable energy production on Superfund, brownfields, and former landfill or mining sites. As part of the RE-Powering America’s Land Initiative, EPA is investing approximately $1 million for projects across the ...

Nov. 4, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA, NREL partner to develop renewable energy on potentially contaminated sites

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are evaluating the feasibility of developing renewable energy production on Superfund, brownfields, and former landfill or mining sites. Superfund sites are the most complex, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites identified by EPA for cleanup due to the risk ...

Feb. 23, 2010

By National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

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