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Regulatory Closures for Chlorinated Solvent Sites
Risk-Based Decisions, Inc. is pleased to announce that it has achieved regulatory closure of its 17th chlorinated solvent-impacted site over the past 11 years. We are presently using an innovative in situ groundwater treatment system to bring another PCE-impacted site to closure in a cost-effective manner in less than seven years. An innovative method to treat MTBE-impacted groundwater has ...
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Global Technologies
MILWAUKEE, WI. Global Technologies, a major provider of oxidation equipment, destroys contaminants produced by soil vapor extraction and groundwater treatment systems. Through world class engineering, manufacturing, installation, and service, these systems assure cost-effective and trouble-free operation in addition to EPA compliance. Global has designed a rental program tailored to meet ...
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Meeting will update public about wells GandH superfund site in Woburn
Next week, EPA will hold a Public Meeting to discuss updates at the Wells G&H Superfund Site in Woburn, Mass. EPA recently completed a Vapor Intrusion study at the site, and will be sharing results with the community at 7:00 p.m. on June 28, 2012 at Woburn City Hall. The Wells G&H Superfund Site contains five source area properties within a 330-acre area in Woburn. Since 1992, various ...
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Corporate fight lets toxics flow into Connecticut groundwater
Connecticut officials are seeking an order against two disputing companies whose inaction and ongoing argument they allege is allowing PCB contamination to jeopardize Bridgeport Harbor and Long Island Sound. Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Gina McCarthy said that the state has requested a temporary injunction against The ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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EPA Reaches $14.6 million Settlement for Groundwater Cleanup at Torrance Superfund Sites
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached a $14.6 million settlement with four companies for the construction of a groundwater treatment system at the Montrose and Del Amo Superfund sites in Torrance, Calif. Construction of the treatment system is the first step in the cleanup of groundwater contaminated by chemicals used to manufacture DDT and synthetic rubber over three decades. ...
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EPA Begins Construction of Groundwater Treatment System for Torrance Superfund Sites
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced the start of construction of a groundwater treatment system that will clean up groundwater contamination from past operations at the Montrose and Del Amo Superfund sites in Torrance, Calif. The treatment system is expected to be completed in 18 months at an estimated cost of $15 million and will be used to remove chlorobenzene, benzene and ...
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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 ...
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Tetra Tech Wins $185 Million U.S. Army Environmental Remediation Contract
Tetra Tech, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEK) announced today that it has been awarded a $185 million multiple award environmental remediation contract by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Kansas City District. Through this 5-year indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract, Tetra Tech will support the investigation, design, and removal of hazardous, toxic, and radioactive materials at military and ...
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EPA Completes Construction Work at W.R. Grace Superfund site in Acton, Mass.
EPA has completed construction activity at the W.R. Grace Superfund site in Acton. Completed work includes the Northeast area groundwater treatment system, the Landfill area groundwater treatment system and the dredging and proper off-site disposal of over 11,899 tons of contaminated sediment from the North Lagoon Wetland and Sinking Pond. During 2011 and 2012, EPA and the Massachusetts ...
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Active Mountaintop Gas Station Remediation Site
The geology of the area is fractured bedrock and the gasoline and MTBE contamination traveled through the fractures and impacted several nearby drinking wells. The consultant conducted a multiple day test at the site. MAE2 used this data to design a system that would prevent the contamination from moving off site and eliminate the source area. This meant the system would need to operate a large ...
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Solar panels power groundwater cleanup at Davis, California superfund site
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Jared Blumenfeld, U.S. Congressman Mike Thompson and Linda Adams, Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency today hosted a press conference and media tour to provide details about recent exciting energy conservation and cleanup accomplishments at the Frontier Fertilizer Superfund site in Davis, California. An innovative electrical ...
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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 ...
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U.S. EPA announces $22 million settlement for cleanup of Cooper Drum Superfund Site in South Gate, Los Angeles County
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of Justice today announced that a group of 40 parties have agreed to conduct the cleanup of the Cooper Drum site in South Gate, 10 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles. The settlement requires an estimated $15 million to construct the additional groundwater treatment system needed, including wells, piping and treatment costs, plus $7 ...
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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 ...
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EPA Orders Continued Treatment of Contaminated Groundwater at Former Manufacturing Facility in Richmond, Va.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached an administrative settlement with Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. and LSI Corp. regarding a former circuit board manufacturing facility located in Henrico County, at 4500 S. Laburnum Ave., Richmond, Va., requiring the companies to address groundwater contaminated with volatile organic compounds. Under an administrative order on consent, LSI Corp. ...
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EPA Encourages the Public to Comment on Revisions to Cleanup Plan for Fulton Avenue Superfund Site in Nassau County, New York
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to modify an interim cleanup plan originally issued in 2007 to address a portion of the contaminated groundwater at the Fulton Avenue Superfund site in the Towns of North Hempstead and Hempstead, New York. The groundwater is contaminated with volatile organic compounds (VOCs), including tetrachloroethylene (PCE), that resulted in part from ...
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EPA Transfers Operations of Whittier Narrows Treatment Plant to State of California
Today, responsibility for operation and maintenance of the groundwater treatment system at the Whittier Narrows Operable Unit (OU) was transferred from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC). The Whittier Narrows OU encompasses approximately four square miles in the southern portion of the San Gabriel Valley Area 1 Superfund ...
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Court Approves EPA Agreement with IBM for Cleanup of Shenandoah Road Superfund Site in East Fishkill, NY Agreement Also Provides Reimbursement of EPA Costs
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that a legal agreement with International Business Machines Corp. was approved on July 7, 2014 by the District Court for the Southern District of New York, under which IBM will perform a cleanup and reimburse EPA for past costs at the Shenandoah Road Groundwater Contamination Superfund site in East Fishkill, New York. The site was ...
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