subsurface monitoring News
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Visit Solinst at NovCare 2011
As societal concerns over sustainability of groundwater resources mount, the environmental research community increasingly finds itself in need of methods for subsurface investigation. In recent years, several new technologies have been developed for cost-effective, minimal-disturbance, and high-resolution subsurface characterization and monitoring that can be applied across a range of spatial ...
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Monitoring CO2 storage in Australian gas field
Australia has launched the first carbon sequestration project in the southern hemisphere with the help of technology developed by researchers at the US Department of Energy (DOE). The Otway Basin Pilot Project will inject and monitor carbon dioxide (CO2) in a depleted gas field in south-eastern Australia to demonstrate the feasibility of storing the greenhouse gas in the Waarre Formation of the ...
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Cedarburg, Wisconsin to Be Cleansed of PCBs
CHICAGO, Illinois, October 5, 2007 (ENS) - The Cedar Creek Superfund site is in a suburban residential area in southeastern Wisconsin north of Milwaukee in the historic city and township of Cedarburg. It would be a pleasant place to live except that PCBs from two local companies have contaminated Cedar Creek so severely that the area has been placed on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ...
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Locus Technologies Forms Alliance with UNC Asheville's NEMAC to Advance Cloud Software Solutions in the Areas of Weather, Climate Change Data, GIS, an
Locus Technologies (Locus), an industry leader in web-based environmental, energy, and compliance software, and UNC Asheville's National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center (NEMAC), an applied environmental research center that creates tools to address the challenges and opportunities of human interaction with the environment, announced a broad alliance today. Locus and NEMAC signed a ...
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Olympus Technical Services Brings Drilling Capabilities to Boise Office
Olympus Technical Services, Inc., a leading provider of environmental drilling and subsurface sampling services in Montana, has procured another combination drill rig and will have a geologist-led drilling crew based in Boise beginning May 2. “We’ve been receiving a lot of inquiries about our environmental drilling services in the Idaho market lately, but for smaller jobs, it ...
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EPA Completes Review of Merrimack, N.H. Superfund Site
EPA has completed its review of the environmental cleanup at the New Hampshire Plating Co. Site in Merrimack, N.H. by conducting a scheduled Five-Year Review as required under the Superfund statute. EPA conducts site evaluations every five years on previously-completed clean up and remediation work performed at Superfund sites listed on the “National Priorities List” (aka Superfund ...
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Missouri, St. Louis-Area Landfill Reach Agreement
Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster's office and the owners of the Bridgeton Landfill reached an agreement Thursday on measures aimed at better controlling underground smoldering and reducing a strong odor that for months has troubled residents in a densely populated area of suburban St. Louis. The agreement with owner Republic Services includes new measures to fight a noxious smell that can ...
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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 ...
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Battelle, Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership Release Phase II Reports
The Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (MRCSP), led by Battelle, has completed its Phase II projects to evaluate storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) in its nine-state region. In addition to the Phase II Final Report, which summarizes more than five years of research activities, 16 other detailed reports on geologic sequestration field tests, terrestrial sequestration field tests and ...
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Withdrawn Standard: ASTM D420-98(2003) Standard Guide to Site Characterization for Engineering Design and Construction Purposes (Withdrawn 2012)
This guide refers to ASTM methods by which soil, rock, and ground water conditions may be determined. The objective of the investigation should be to identify and locate, both horizontally and vertically, significant soil and rock types and ground water ...
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