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Come See EON at the Florida Remediation Conference 2019!

Our team is getting ready to travel to Orlando to attend the Florida Remediation Conference on November 7-8. Come visit us in Booth #512 to learn about our soil and groundwater cleanup ...

Oct. 28, 2019

By EON Products Inc.

Geotech Attends the Florida Remediation Soil and Ground Water Cleanup Conference in Orlando, Florida

The month of November began with Walter Wood, PG, Geotech’s Manager of Customer Software Support, manning a booth at the annual Florida Remediation Soil and Groundwater Cleanup Conference, in Orlando, FL. Walter lives in central Florida, and has worked on many environmental projects there, interacting with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and several of the Florida Water ...

Jul. 11, 2019

By Geotech Computer Systems, Inc.

New regulatory update on EPA groundwater memo

The United States EPA (USEPA) has issued a policy memorandum providing a summary of groundwater policies and guidance under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA). The memorandum has the potential to impact the way baseline risk assessments are conducted, and the way IC-only RODs are justified. Recently, industries have often been able to bypass the ...

Aug. 15, 2009

By AECOM

California Voters Approve Prop 1: Water Bond Funds 21st Century Clean and Reliable Water Solutions

California voters today passed, by a very comfortable margin, Proposition 1, a new $7.5 billion water bond that will provide clean drinking water to disadvantaged communities and fund critical investments in regional water supply solutions that are the future of California water management. Proposition 1 provides $2.4 billion in funding for regional water projects such as water conservation, ...

Nov. 4, 2014

By Natural Resources Defense Council

EPA Announces a Proposed Modification for the BFI Rockingham Landfill Superfund Site Remedy, Rockingham, Vermont

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recommends modifications to the remedy at the BFI Rockingham Landfill Superfund Site (Site) in Rockingham, VT. The remedy modifications include an increased timeframe to cleanup Site groundwater, additional groundwater restrictions to prevent exposure to contaminated groundwater, and revised cleanup levels for two Site contaminants, arsenic and lead, ...

Sep. 17, 2014

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Hot microbes cause groundwater cleanup rethink

While investigating ways of cleaning up groundwater contamination, scientists examined how microbes break down contaminants under the soil’s surface and found that subsurface temperatures associated with microbial degradation can become too hot for the microbes to grow and consume the groundwater contaminants. This can slow down the clean up of the groundwater and even continue the spread of ...

Sep. 11, 2009

By CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

U.S. EPA orders $20 million Northrop cleanup at San Gabriel Valley Superfund site // Groundwater contaminated by former Benchmark Technology facility

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation to spend an estimated $20 million to build a groundwater cleanup system to address groundwater contamination stemming primarily from the former Benchmark Technology facility in the City of Industry, Calif., located within the San Gabriel Valley Superfund Sites. Formerly located at 200 South Turnbull Canyon ...

Sep. 14, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Construction of chromium treatment system begins at San Fernando Valley Superfund site

The US Environmental Protection Agency and the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board have announced that Honeywell International, Inc. has recently begun construction of a wellhead treatment system for chromium in the North Hollywood region of the San Fernando Valley - Area 1 Superfund Site. In early 2007, a production well that is part of the groundwater cleanup system for solvent ...

Jul. 3, 2008

By MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

EPA settles with Flint Hills Resources Alaska, LLC, for hazardous waste violations at its North Pole Facility

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached a settlement with Flint Hills Resources, which owns and operated a petroleum refinery in North Pole, Alaska, for alleged mishandling of hazardous waste generated during groundwater cleanup actions at the refinery. On June 19, 2013, Flint Hills Resources (FHR) conducted groundwater cleanup activities at its North Pole refinery that generated ...

Sep. 10, 2014

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA orders $60 million groundwater cleanup at toxic ‘mega’ superfund site in Sacramento County

The U.S. Environmental Protection is ordering a $60 million clean-up of rocket fuel-polluted groundwater at the Aerojet Superfund Site in Sacramento County, Calif., the latest phase of a long-term decontamination project at the site. The extent of toxic pollution at the site makes it one of the largest and most comprehensive Superfund groundwater cleanups in California. A 27-square mile swath of ...

Sep. 28, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Groundwater Cleanup to Begin at Smalley-Piper Superfund Site in Collierville, TN

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that construction of a groundwater treatment system will soon begin at the Smalley-Piper Superfund Site located at 719 Piper Street in Collierville, TN. Land clearing and other site preparation activities are currently underway. The treatment plant building will be constructed during December followed by the installation of the ...

Dec. 5, 2014

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Apache Nitrogen Products, Inc agrees to US$5 million groundwater and soil cleanup

The U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Apache Nitrogen Products, Inc. entered into a consent decree for future groundwater and soil cleanup at the Apache Powder Superfund Site, near St. David, Ariz. Apache Nitrogen Products will continue to remove nitrate and perchlorate from groundwater and perform long-term groundwater monitoring. The work will cost up to ...

Dec. 23, 2009

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. EPA reaches $3 million settlement to clean groundwater in Mountain View

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reached a settlement with CTS Printex, Inc. and ADN Corporation to complete the remaining groundwater contamination cleanup at the CTS Printex, Inc. Superfund site in Mountain View, Calif. The companies will spend a total of about $2 million on a system to monitor and treat low levels of contaminated groundwater remaining at the site. They will also ...

Jan. 28, 2014

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA Celebrates Sustainability Improvements at N. Dartmouth, Mass. Superfund Site

EPA joined local officials to celebrate the implementation of a sustainable groundwater cleanup system and the installation of solar panels at the ReSolve Superfund site in North Dartmouth, Mass. The groundwater cleanup is happening through an innovative biological treatment process that is fully powered by solar panels at the site. The site operated as chemical reclamation facility between 1956 ...

Sep. 21, 2015

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Solutions-IES to present webinar on sustainable high-performance remediation

Join Solutions-IES on Thursday, January 13, 2011 from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EST for an engaging discussion of the current state of sustainable practices related to soil and groundwater remediation. Is it enough to be green? Sustainability demands much more in the field. To be truly "green", remediation systems must be designed and implemented as highly functional in their performance, delivering ...

Nov. 12, 2010

By Solutions-IES

U.S. EPA’s $11 Million Cleanup Settlement Helps Protect Drinking Water in Rialto

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today reached an $11 million settlement for contamination at the Rockets, Fireworks, and Flares Superfund site in Rialto, Calif. The site was formerly known as the B.F. Goodrich Superfund site, but the name was changed by EPA as part of a prior agreement with a major settling party. The settlement is with the estate of Harry Hescox, the late president of ...

Jan. 31, 2014

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Texaco Begins Soil Cleanup, Additional Groundwater Work at Ventura County Superfund Site

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that work will begin this week to address soil contamination at the Pacific Pipeline Superfund Site located in Fillmore, CA. Additional groundwater work will begin in early 2014. This work, estimated to cost more than $8 million, is part of a recent settlement with Texaco Inc., a Chevron subsidiary. Texaco, under EPA’s supervision, will ...

May 16, 2013

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Jacobs Receives Contract from NASA at Kennedy Space Center

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE: JEC) announced today it has been awarded an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract to support the design and implementation of soil and groundwater cleanups at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) in Florida. The contract has a five-year ordering period with a potential value of $91 million. Under the ...

Jul. 3, 2012

By Jacobs

Texaco Begins Soil Cleanup, Additional Groundwater Work at Ventura County Superfund Site

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that work will begin this week to address soil contamination at the Pacific Pipeline Superfund Site located in Fillmore, CA. Additional groundwater work will begin in early 2014. This work, estimated to cost more than $8 million, is part of a recent settlement with Texaco Inc., a Chevron subsidiary. Texaco, under EPA’s supervision, will ...

May 17, 2013

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA orders seven Southern California businesses to clean up San Fernando Valley Superfund site

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is ordering seven businesses to pay approximately US$500,000 towards clean up at one of the San Fernando Valley Superfund sites, located outside Los Angeles, Calif., or come up with an equally effective system to keep contaminated groundwater from affecting local drinking water wells. The EPA has been active in groundwater cleanup efforts in the San ...

Sep. 23, 2008

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

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