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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

CoMo170 hand held contamination monitor

Laboratory Impex Systems launches CoMo170 a light weight, hand held contamination monitor. The CoMo170 monitors a large area - 170 cm2, its innovative CoMo detector technology uses thin-layer plastic scintillation, negating the need for gas filled or gas-flushed detectors, thus minimising operating costs.Capable of simultaneous or selective alpha and beta-gamma contamination measurement, CoMo170 ...

Jul. 7, 2009

By Ultra Electronics Nuclear Control Systems

EPA to Require Monitoring for Unregulated Contaminants

(Washington, D.C.) Approximately 4,000 public water systems will monitor drinking water for up to 25 unregulated chemicals to inform EPA about the frequency and levels at which these contaminants are found in drinking water systems across the United States. The information will help determine whether regulations are needed to protect public health. This is the second scheduled review under the ...

Dec. 22, 2006

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

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

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

Contaminants monitored for safe drinking water act

As part of its commitment to implement sensible protections of drinking water for communities across the country, and as required by the Safe Drinking Water Act, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing thirty currently unregulated contaminants for monitoring in water systems, and submitting this proposal for public comment. The comment period will allow the public and other ...

Mar. 7, 2011

Monitoring heavy metal contamination in the German Wadden Sea

Human activities, including industrial development along coastal areas, risk polluting the marine environment with heavy metals which can harm human health and aquatic life. A recent study has found elevated levels of metal pollution in the Jade area of the German Wadden Sea, but concludes that metal contamination of the sediments would not be expected to have harmful effects on the marine ...

Oct. 17, 2013

By European Commission, Environment DG

System monitors for drinking water contamination on-line and in real time

INTRODUCING WISE® Water Infrastructure Sensing Equipment On-line, real-time, chemical and biological water contamination detection Drinking water systems are vulnerable to chemical spills, pollution, natural and man-made disasters, and acts of terrorism. Until WISE™, there has never been a single, integrated system capable of detecting and reporting biological and chemical ...

Jan. 20, 2011

By ECSI International, Inc.

Filter testing: Automatic particle counters and fluid contamination monitors

Automatic Particle Counters and Fluid Contamination Monitors are widely used in filter testing and fluid contamination analysis laboratories and in industrial facilities to monitor filters and cleaning processes and machines. However, their roles and ways they are used need to be properly understood. Christophe Peuchot, Gerard J. Lynch and Nicolas Petillon of IFTS ...

Aug. 4, 2011

By Filtration + Separation - Elsevier Ltd

New robust hand, foot and clothing contamination monitor now available

The new, robust, HFC Contamination Monitor is an easy to use and effective solution to personnel contamination monitoring. User movements and monitoring regime can be recorded to provide auditable records and therefore satisfy the regulator. The system uses well established, accurate technology incorporating large area, fast response dual phosphor scintillation detectors for simultaneous or ...

May 27, 2010

By Ultra Electronics Nuclear Control Systems

EPA Determination on 11 Contaminants

The U.S. EPA has made a preliminary determination not to regulate 11 contaminants on the second drinking water contaminant candidate list (CCL). The agency?s preliminary regulatory determination, based on an extensive review of health effects and occurrence data, concludes that the specific contaminants do not occur at levels of public health concern in public water systems. 'We are confident ...

Apr. 16, 2007

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Contaminants in US groundwater

According to a new study by the USGS, more than 20% of untreated water samples from 932 public wells across the US contained at least one contaminant at levels of potential health concern. About one-third of the US population receive their drinking water from such a system. The USGS study (Contaminants in Groundwater used for ...

Jun. 1, 2010

Laboratory analyses of contaminated groundwater

The Defense Distribution Depot Susquehanna located in New Cumberland, PA has a requirement for the establishment of an Indefinite-Delivery Requirements contract to provide the necessary labor and materials to perform laboratory analyses on samples of contaminated/non-contaminated groundwater, drinking water, hazardous wastes, PCBs, bulk samples and air monitoring cassettes for asbestos. Due to ...

Apr. 9, 2009

By GLOBE Foundation

EPA to work with drinking water systems to monitor unregulated contaminants

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today published a list of 28 chemicals and two viruses that approximately 6,000 public water systems will monitor from 2013 to 2015 as part of the agency’s unregulated contaminant monitoring program, which collects data for contaminants suspected to be present in drinking water, but that do not have health-based standards set under the Safe ...

May 1, 2012

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Shedding a light on contaminants

Name a current environmental challenge. Global climate change? Loss of endangered species? What about soil contamination? Soil pollution rarely makes headlines, though it is a prevalent global issue. According to the European Environment Agency, 39 member states in Europe had over 2.5 million contaminated soil sites in 2011. Sharon O’Rourke, researcher at University ...

Nov. 2, 2016

By American Society of Agronomy

PFOS not widespread contaminant of drinking water

Although limited data exists on perfluorinated chemicals in water, a recent study published in CIWEM’s Water and Environment Journal has found that perfluorooctane sulphonate (PFOS) is not a widespread contaminant of drinking water in England. PFOS has a number of industrial and commercial uses, including as a surfactant for fire-fighting foam, a mist suppressant for metal-plating baths and ...

Feb. 22, 2011

Pennsylvania Groundwater Contaminated By Coal Ash

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, September 18, 2007 (ENS) - Disposing of coal ash in mines is contaminating water supplies throughout Pennsylvania, according to a report released today by the advocacy group Clean Air Task Force and the nonprofit, public interest law firm Earthjustice. In 10 of 15 mines examined across the state, groundwater and streams near areas where coal ash, or coal ...

Sep. 19, 2007

By Environment News Service (ENS)

Drinking water wells vulnerable to contamination

New USGS groundwater studies explain what, when, and how contaminants may reach public-supply wells. All wells are not equally vulnerable to contamination because of differences in three factors: the general chemistry of the aquifer, groundwater age, and direct paths within aquifer systems that allow water and contaminants to reach a well. More than 100 million people in the United States ...

Feb. 12, 2010

Reduce Corrosion and Prevent Moisture Contamination

Monitoring the moisture content of your petrochemicals is essential for maintaining quality, improving processes and ensuring that your final products meet trade specifications. Designed to perform in both manufacturing and lab environments, Computrac® has been engineered to deliver lab precision data with production durability. If moisture analysis is critical to your production ...

Oct. 5, 2015

By Arizona Instrument LLC

EPA submits for public comment the next round of safe drinking water act contaminant monitoring

As part of its commitment to implement sensible protections of drinking water for communities across the country, and as required by the Safe Drinking Water Act, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing 30 currently unregulated contaminants for monitoring in water systems, and submitting this proposal for public comment. The comment period will allow the public and other ...

Feb. 3, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

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