groundwater contamination News
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Webinar: Groundwater Remediation: Best Practices and Technology
Topics Include: Design and implementation of in situ remediation options including injection, fracturing, shallow soil mixing and thermal. The specialized equipment utilized to deliver liquid and solid amendments into soil and groundwater contamination. The upfront characterization required to support a successful ...
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New MediTerra developments: Risk management and chemical management
MediTerra focuses its main specializations in Environmental, Health and Safety Compliance and Soil and Groundwater Contamination. Related with these two issues, MediTerra has established two three areas of development: Chemical Management, Risk Management and Carbon Footprint ...
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Geonics EM34 Conductivity Meter Range Sale
Geomatrix Earth Science Ltd is pleased to announce that Geonics Ltd is offering a 10% discount off the EM34 conductivity meter range until the 13th of February 2015. The EM34-3 is a fast, simple to operate, cost-effective instrument for the engineering geophysicist, geologist and hydro geologist alike and has been particularly successful for mapping deeper groundwater contaminant plumes and for ...
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Public meeting and hearing on changes to the cleanup plan for the burgess brothers landfill superfund site in Bennington, VT
A public informational meeting and hearing will be held on Tuesday, August 16, 2011 at 7 pm in the Bennington Free Library in Bennington, Vermont. The meeting is an opportunity for residents to learn about proposed changes to the cleanup plan for the Burgess Brothers Landfill Superfund Site. In 1998, EPA signed a Record of Decision (ROD) which called for placement of a landfill cap and ...
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Removal effort to begin at Vassalboro, Maine site
A public informational meeting and hearing will be held on Tuesday, August 16, 2011 at 7 pm in the Bennington Free Library in Bennington, Vermont. The meeting is an opportunity for residents to learn about proposed changes to the cleanup plan for the Burgess Brothers Landfill Superfund Site. In 1998, EPA signed a Record of Decision (ROD) which called for placement of a landfill cap and ...
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Company settles superfund agreement with EPA
The US Environmental Protection Agency finalized an agreement with Paul McCoys Laundry and Dry Cleaners, Inc., of Phoenix, Ariz. requiring the company to pay $26,000 for cleanup of the Motorola 52nd Street Superfund site. Paul McCoys Laundry and Dry Cleaners, Inc. will pay $26,000 to settle their liability in the cleanup based on a limited ability to pay. The EPA evaluated the financial ...
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Full-scale application of nZVI: mixed contamination of chromium and chlorinated solvents
Application of surface stabilized iron nanoparticles (NANOFER 25S) to eliminate groundwater contamination of chlorinated hydrocarbons (CHCs) and hexavalent chromium (Cr6+) at KARA Trutnov site in the Czech Republic. Remediation company EKORA in collaboration with company NANO IRON, producer of zerovalent iron nanoparticles (nZVI), conducted pilot injection of surface stabilized nanoparticles of ...
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EPA Settlement with Petersburg, Va., Business Helps Protect Soil and Groundwater from Contamination
An underground storage tank (UST) at the Petersburg Deli, Inc., in Petersburg, Va., will now be regularly monitored and inspected under a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to resolve alleged violations of UST regulations. The required monthly and yearly inspections of leak detection equipment on a 6,000-gallon UST that stores kerosene will help prevent soil and groundwater ...
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EPA announces additional groundwater investigation at Delaware City PVC Superfund site
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced a new investigation to determine the nature and extent of groundwater contamination at the Delaware City PVC Superfund site in New Castle County. Under an administrative settlement with the EPA, Bayer CropScience L.P. will investigate groundwater contamination in the shallow aquifer east of the PVC plant property and evaluate potential ...
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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 ...
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Additional cleanup decision finalized at camp edwards (MA)
EPA has signed a final decision document to address contamination near the “L Range” at the Massachusetts Military Reservation (MMR) on Cape Cod. The decision addresses both the groundwater contamination and its source. The majority of the L Range groundwater contamination is located on the eastern portion of the base, abutting the Town of Sandwich boundary, and sampling and ...
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Encouraging results in evaluating groundwater contaminants
The widespread use of pesticides across the United States has been in practice for decades, with little knowledge of the long-term effects on the nation’s groundwater. The results of a new study show that samples taken from over 300 wells across the US have not retained a high concentration of pesticide contamination. The news is a result of a decadal long study to assess the extent of the ...
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New industrial dispersing unit for nanoscale iron is ready!
New industrial dispersing unit includes also a dosing technology Based on our operating experience we designed new dispersing unit for processing of nZVI powder, which includes also a buffer tank and proportional dosing technology to achieve easy, safe and reliable application of manufactured slurry. The unit is now ready for use by our client in remediation projects in Europe. Due to a compact ...
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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 ...
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U.S. EPA selects $70 million remedy for groundwater contamination removal at Omega Chemical Site / Preventing Spread of 4.5 mile Contamination Plume is Primary Goal
The U.S Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it has selected an interim remedy to capture and treat groundwater contaminated by high concentrations of industrial solvents at the Omega Chemical Corporation Superfund Site in Whittier, Calif. This cleanup is estimated to cost nearly $70 million over the life of the treatment system. EPA selected this interim remedy to prevent the ...
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EPA Issues Amendment to Record of Decision for the 10th Street Superfund Site in Columbus, Neb.
EPA Region 7 has issued an amendment to the Record of Decision (ROD) for the 10th Street Superfund Site in Columbus, Neb. EPA signed the ROD for the site in February 1995 to address groundwater contamination. The selected remedy for the 1995 ROD was sampling of municipal and monitoring wells and institutional controls to limit exposure to contamination from the site. Site activities in 2000 and ...
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EPA Finalizes Plan to Address Closed Landfills in Cinnaminson and Delran, New Jersey
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized its determination that no further action is needed to address the capping of two closed landfills at the Cinnaminson Groundwater Contamination Superfund site in the townships of Cinnaminson and Delran, New Jersey. The site, which covers approximately 400 acres, includes residential and industrial properties and the two landfills. As a result ...
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Products: Total remediation with BOS 100 and BOS 200
Trapped Contaminants + Quick, Complete Treatment = the Trap & Treat Approach RPI’s revolutionary environmental remediation products were designed with one goal in mind: total remediation. Their patented Trap & Treat products trap contamination, then treat it, rendering your property ready for sale or use and for less money than elaborate mechanical “solutions.” RPI ...
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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 combustion ...
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Ejlskov A/S opnår fantastiske resultater med BOS 200 i Danmark
What's Danish for "fuggedaboutit?" That's what we exclaimed when we learned that an active petrol fueling center in Denmark had considered traditional "dig and haul" tactics for free-phase LNAPL contamination. To the rescue? RPI-Group member Ejlskov A/S and BOS 200, which arrived on site ready to eliminate LNAPL from soil and groundwater and reduce groundwater contamination to below strict ...
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