rehabilitation planning News
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Re-introducing the corporate ecosystem services review, version 2.0
The World Resources Institute and World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) are pleased to announce the release of the Corporate Ecosystem Services Review Version 2.0, an updated guidance document and set of resources to help business managers develop ecosystem-related strategies. Companies depend on and impact the services that healthy ecosystems provide such as ...
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EPA Announces $15 Million in Supplemental Funds to Clean up and Redevelop Contaminated Brownfields Sites Across the Country
EPA Announces $15 Million in Supplemental Funds to Clean up and Redevelop Contaminated Brownfields Sites Across the Country The City of Brea, Calif., will use its supplemental funding to clean sections of a former rail line, which will be reused as a rails-to-trails project for alternative transportation and recreation options. Cleanup of a downtown property in Great Falls, Mont., will allow ...
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China assigns more funds to improve water quality as 2020 deadline looms
With 2020 fast approaching the Chinese government has set out intentions to invest more money to meet water quality improvement targets. During the recent National People’s Congress (NPC), a draft budget report suggested RMB30 billion ($4.5 billion) could be invested on water pollution management infrastructure over the next year. According to GWI, this is a 45 percent increase on the ...
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Pennsylvania American Water Plans $3.2 Million Rehab of Water Storage Tanks
Pennsylvania American Water announced today the start of rehabilitation projects at 11 water storage tanks throughout Pennsylvania. The tanks will be inspected, sandblasted and repainted to provide a protective barrier that prevents the steel from rusting and compromising water quality. The combined cost of these improvements is approximately $3.5 million. ...
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EPA Awards $1.3 Million in Supplemental Funds to Clean up and Redevelop Contaminated Brownfields Sites in the Southeast
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it will award $1.3 million in supplemental funding to help clean up contaminated Brownfields properties. The Revolving Loan Funding (RLF) will help 4 communities in the southeast carry out cleanup and redevelopment projects. These projects will help communities create jobs while protecting people’s health and the environment. ...
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Groundbreaking GPR software development for pipe penetrating radar
This new software interpretation module allows users to open an existing processed PPR scan profile and also open another parallel scan profile measured at an adjacent clock position. Both profiles can accommodate back and forth scrolling and resizing. Unique as well, is the ability to open the appropriate “snakeskin” CCTV and apply the layer to a model. The final feature that will ...
By SewerVUE
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SewerVUE releases GPR / PPR video
A video clip showing the SewerVUE Surveyor in-pipe ground penetrating radar pipe inspection system during deployment and operation has been uploaded to YouTube and can be viewed at: http://www.youtube.com/user/SewerVUE. This video illustrates the main functions of the robot including the tensioned arm movement of the pipe penetrating radar sensors over protruding laterals in the pipe. This unique ...
By SewerVUE
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New reporting format incorporating GIS capabilities in plan views
In March 2010, SewerVUE Technology Corp. completed beta testing its proprietary “Pipe Penetrating Radar Data Interpretation Application (PP-RADIAN).” This was highlighted in the March Newsletter. Since then, SewerVUE has completed an enhancement of this software that enables presentation of the in-pipe GPR (Pipe Penetrating Radar) data to be displayed in longitudinal crosssections ...
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Water Management in Mining 2011 - WA offers the opportunity for a personal demonstration of ESdat Environmental Data Management Software
ESdat Environmental Data Management Software will be demonstrated at the Water Management in Mining Conference in Perth from the 6 – 8 December 2011 by the software developers, Earth Science Information Systems (EScIS). ESdat is used by many of the world’s leading environmental consultancies and site holders. Western Austraia is considered a key market for the ESdat software because ...
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Pöyry awarded EUR 4.2 million assignment for tunnel equipment rehabilitation project in Switzerland
PÖYRY PLC Press release 23 March 2011 at 1.15 p.m. Pöyry's Urban & Mobility business group has been awarded a contract in a consortium for the design and engineering services for the rehabilitation works of the operating and safety equipment by the Swiss Federal Roads Office FEDRO. Pöyry's share of the contract is EUR 4.2 million. The project will be completed by 2018. Pöyry will ...
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SewerVUE selected for BCTIA “Most Promising Pre-Commercial Technology” awards
SewerVUE In-Pipe GPR Technology has been selected by the British Columbia Technology Innovation Council (BCTIA) as one of the three finalists for its prestigious “Most Promising Pre-Commercial Technology Awards”. The 2010 finalists for the Technology Awards are forging new markets with technologies that allow inspectors to see into concrete to determine the state of aging ...
By SewerVUE
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Oil pollution in the Black Sea – European Commission responds
The European Commission has responded to a request for assistance from Ukraine through its Monitoring and Information Centre (MIC), which is the office responsible for civil protection and marine pollution actions. Ukraine requires expertise to assist its own authorities in evaluating the environmental impact of the oil pollution in the Kerch Strait. Stavros Dimas, Commissioner responsible for ...
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SewerVUE completes in-pipe radar scans in salt lake city
SewerVUE’s parent company, Terraprobe Geoscience Corp. was hired by Carollo Engineers P.C. to undertake a high frequency ground penetrating radar (GPR) survey to investigate four interior joints of the 60-inch unlined RCP raw water Davis Aqueduct owned by the Weber Basin Water Conservancy District in Layton, Utah. This was a time critical project with the primary water supply shut down for ...
By SewerVUE
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Agilent Technologies` NMR spectrometer and MRI system chosen by national University of Singapore for Environmental Research
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) announced today the National University of Singapore has selected the Agilent 600-MHz nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer and the 7-T MRI system to support environmental research. The NMR and MRI systems will be housed in the NUS Environmental Research Institute (NERI), and will support the work of researchers under the Singapore-Peking-Oxford ...
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Federal Agencies Seek Input to Update Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Action Plan
The federal agencies and departments of the Great Lakes Interagency Task Force today announced opportunities for the public to provide input to a planned update of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Action Plan. The updated Action Plan would direct Great Lakes restoration for fiscal years 2015-2019. The public may comment directly to the federal agencies and to the Great Lakes Advisory Board ...
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Improvements to water resources for Mongolia`s nomadic herding families on tap
Japan and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) are working with poor herding families in Mongolia’s Ovorhangay province to improve herding families’ access to water and pasture resources. The Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction is extending a $2 million grant for the project, which will be overseen by ADB and executed by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture with the cooperation of the nongovernmental ...
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Saving Manila Bay
This post was originally published at www.philstar.com by EYES WIDE OPEN – Iris Gonzales on January 24, 2019. The Manila Bay of my childhood was a vast expanse of blue seen from the glass elevator of the then famous Silahis International Hotel along Roxas Boulevard. My brothers and I used to spend some weekends in that hotel during summers of decades ago, thanks to our dad who had an ...
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Encouraging first step, but still a long way to go for APP to stop peat destruction
Wetlands International welcomes today’s announcement by Asia Pulp and Paper that it will retire 7000 ha of active Acacia plantations to protect carbon-rich peatlands. While this is an encouraging first step, significant additional efforts will be needed to prevent irreversible flooding and secure sustainable management of peatland landscapes in APP’s areas of operation. Wetlands ...
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