soil water conductivity News
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Eijkelkamp Soil & Water measures water quality for Dutch Water Board
Eijkelkamp Soil & Water recently installed two measuring buoys in the Berkel river at the request of the Rijn en IJssel Water Board. At the beginning of November, waste water from a factory nearby ended up in the Berkel river due to a breakage in a pressure pipe. Rijn en IJssel Water Board started a major cleaning of the Berkel river. Before, during and after the cleaning, Eijkelkamp Soil ...
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HydraProbe selected to be used in Canada’s RISMA Network for Agricultural Monitoring
A new study published in the Soil Science Society of America Journal investigated the field performance of 5 soil moisture instruments in heavy clay soils in the RISMA network. The HydraProbe outperformed TDR and capacitance-based soil sensors in terms of stability and accuracy in Manitoba’s agricultural soil. Much of soil in the Canadian Prairie farmland is vertisolic. Soils with clayey ...
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EPA awards five environmental justice grants in the southeast
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that it awarded five cooperative agreements to local non-profit community-based organizations in the Southeast to support the protection of human health and the environment in communities affected by the BP oil spill. “EPA is pleased to continue providing support to Gulf Coast communities affected by the BP oil spill,” ...
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Proposed new ASTM vadose zone standard to aid in vapor intrusion evaluations
A proposed new practice being developed by ASTM Subcommittee D18.21 on Ground Water and Vadose Zone Investigations will cover techniques for actively collecting soil gas samples from the vadose zone beneath buildings. WK18835, Practice for Active Soil Gas Sampling in the Vadose Zone for Vapor Intrusion Evaluations, is under the jurisdiction of ASTM International Committee D18 on Soil and Rock. ...
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