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RockWare Monthly Announcement - April 2011

New Software Versions: Groundwater Vistas v6: A graphical user interface for groundwater flow & contaminant transport modeling AquiferWin32 v4: The ultimate in pumping test analysis and simulation New Software Updates: PetraSim 5: Graphical interface for the TOUGH2 family of simulators Tips: RockWorks15 Bubble Maps. Training: RockWorks15 Workshop Apr 27-28, 2011, Golden CO USA; ...

Apr. 12, 2011

By RockWare, Inc.

EPA invites public comment on Chehalis area groundwater cleanup

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency invites public comment on a draft plan to clean up contamination at the Hamilton-Labree Superfund site near North Hamilton and Labree Roads, south of Chehalis, Washington. EPA will hear comments on the cleanup plan at a public meeting on Tuesday, October 23, from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. at the Veterans Memorial Museum, 100 SW Veterans Way, in Chehalis. EPA ...

Oct. 2, 2012

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Japan`s radioactive water leaks: How dangerous?

New revelations of contaminated water leaking from storage tanks at the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant have raised alarm, coming just weeks after Japanese officials acknowledged that radioactive water has been seeping into the Pacific from the plant for more than two years, The government announced this week that it would contribute 47 billion yen ($470 million) to build ...

Sep. 5, 2013

By Associated Press

EPA celebrates cleanup of the Garland creosoting superfund site (TX)

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) held an open house in Longview, Texas, this afternoon to celebrate the cleanup of the Garland Creosoting Superfund site. The 12-acre site, located at 3915 Garland Road in Longview, is an abandoned wood treating facility that used creosote to preserve wood products from 1960 to 1997. In April 2009, EPA announced funding through the American Recovery and ...

Oct. 14, 2010

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EOS® selected as bioremediation product for Indiana TCE groundwater plume

EOS Remediation product and design engineers worked with the consulting firm GeoTrans, Inc., a Tetra Tech Company, and Visteon Corporation to pilot test enhanced reductive dechlorination (ERD) as a remedy for a massive TCE groundwater plume emanating from a former manufacturing facility in Indiana (more than a 1,000 feet wide, 8,000 long and up to 75 feet deep). For the bench test, GeoTrans and ...

Aug. 27, 2009

By EOS Remediation, LLC

EOS selected as bioremediation product for massive Indiana TCE groundwater plume

Past use of tricholoroethene (TCE) at a manufacturing facility in Indiana created a contaminated plume of groundwater approximately 1,000 feet wide, 8,000 feet long, and up to 75 feet deep. The plume has impacted a regionally significant unconfined aquifer. EOS 598B42 emulsified oil product was the selected electron donor for the bioaugmentation pilot test that was completed at the site. The ...

Aug. 18, 2009

By EOS Remediation, LLC

ExxonMobil addresses stormwater at everett terminal – better water quality in mystic and island end rivers will result

EPA and MassDEP have issued a modification to ExxonMobil’s stormwater discharge permit to the Island End River, a tributary to the Mystic River. The permit modification incorporates the substantial improvements that ExxonMobil has made to the stormwater management system at its Everett Terminal, working in accordance with a 2009 memorandum of understanding between EPA Region 1 and ...

Oct. 14, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Site`s groundwater, soil cleanup working

The effort to clean up soil and groundwater contamination at the nation's only plant for assembling and disassembling nuclear weapons has been effective so far and will continue for years, according to the first five-year review of the site. Pantex in the Texas Panhandle was added to the national Superfund cleanup list in 1994 because of past site practices that included burning chemicals in ...

Jan. 15, 2014

By Associated Press

Comments sought on revised cleanup plan for burlington’s pine street canal superfund site

This summer, EPA will be continuing its work at the Pine Street Canal Superfund Site in Burlington, Vt., by gathering public input on plans to enhance part of the site’s remedy and by conducting a comprehensive evaluation of the cleanup. From July 14 to Aug. 15, 2011, EPA will be seeking public input on recommended modifications to the site’s underwater cap. The existing underwater ...

Jul. 13, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

MOE presents: provincial water monitoring networks

Dave Rudolph – "Emerging Needs for Temporal and Spatial Data Precision" Dave Rudolph, with the University of Waterloo, started the symposium off with a very thought provoking presentation on the value of data. Dave used case studies to illustrate how different factors impact the quantity and quality of water resources, and how a small change can affect these conditions quickly and ...

Jun. 10, 2010

By Solinst Canada Ltd.

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