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Omega Liquid Waste Solutions Introduces a remote control universal mount reel
Introducing the remote control universal mount reel for 3 and 4 inch vacuum hose storage on vacuum trucks. The power reel eliminates the need to manhandle the hoses and slashes the time it takes to deploy and stow hose while keeping customers’ yards free from spills. The truck stays spotless and the hoses are safe from damage. Operator fatigue and compensation cost are reduced due to the ...
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Verderflex Peristaltic Hose Pump effectively transfers Lime Slurry
A gas manufacturing company requested an effective method for transferring lime slurry from below storage tanks to tanker trucks. The company was using vacuum trucks and required a more reliable pumping process. Due to the high specific gravity of the slurry, the solids or particles have a tendency to settle when it is left for extended periods of time. Air must be injected to ensure the lime ...
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U.S. EPA Response to the BP Whiting Oil Spill
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is responding to the spill of an unknown volume of oil into Lake Michigan from the BP refinery in Whiting, Indiana. BP notified the federal government’s National Response Center on March 24, 2014 at 5:25 p.m. that a spill had occurred. EPA has issued a Notice of Federal Interest, which formally advises BP of the federal government’s ...
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EPA News Advisory: ASIG Sand Island Hawaii Fuel Spill Response Update 2/9/15
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Hawaii State Department of Health (DOH) continue response operations to recover spilled jet fuel at the Airport Service Group International (ASIG) facility on Sand Island Access Road in Honolulu. EPA is leading the response effort and working with DOH’s Hazard Evaluation and Emergency Response branch and ASIG. Status of Response Amount of ...
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Clean Harbors Opens Service Center in Arcola - Serves southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba
ARCOLA, SASKATCHEWAN – December 16, 2010 – Clean Harbors, the leading provider of environmental, energy and industrial services throughout North America, has opened a regional service center to facilitate the increased oil and gas activities throughout southeast Saskatchewan and southern Manitoba. Called the Estevan Service Center, its inventory includes vacuum trucks, hydro-vacs, ...
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Nearly 40 treated from California waste plant fire
A mysterious chemical mixture that burst into flames at a Southern California waste facility sent nearly 40 people to hospitals for decontamination and forced homes and businesses for a mile around to evacuate. The flames and danger in Santa Paula, a city of around 30,000 about 50 miles northwest of Los Angeles, had mostly eased late Tuesday, Ventura County fire officials said. A vacuum truck ...
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EPA News Advisory: ASIG Sand Island Hawaii Fuel Spill Response Update 2/12/15
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Hawaii State Department of Health (DOH) continue response operations to recover spilled jet fuel at the Airport Service Group International (ASIG) facility on Sand Island Access Road in Honolulu. EPA is leading the response effort and working with DOH’s Hazard Evaluation and Emergency Response branch and ASIG. Status of Response Amount of ...
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Municipalities empowered by Vacuum Excavators
Cities are digging safer and more efficiently by arming departments with vacuum excavators. In the rarest of cases, fire departments are using vacuum excavators for trench collapse rescues. The more common use though is the need for potholing, sewer jetting, storm drain cleaning, and many other applications. Some regulatory agencies require potholing when a path of a bore trench closely ...
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Envent Announces Commitment to Workplace Safety with Guest Article Featured in BIC Magazine’s March Issue
Business Review announced today Brian Miller, Envent Corporation’s Director of Health, Safety and Environment, will represent the company’s dedication to workplace safety in BIC Magazine, North America’s largest free, multi-industry, multi-departmental energy publication, with a guest article featuring the most important steps to take to ensure safe degassing operations when ...
By BIC Alliance
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From high school helper to director of operations
GFL’s Director of Operations for Saskatchewan and Manitoba Ray Poppl started his journey in the waste industry 20 years ago as a helper through his high school education program. After a few years working as a general laborer and transitioning into being a driver, Poppl broke his ankle playing hockey, which unintentionally played a pivotal part in his professional journey from working in ...
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SWS Environmental Services adds Galveston, Texas location
SWS Environmental Services (SWSES) has expanded its Texas operations to Galveston. The newest location for SWSES was chosen for its maritime proximity on the Texas coast, providing for new services to the shipping, barge and petrochemical industries. The location comes complete with 200 feet of bulkhead for mooring - and access to an additional 6,800 feet - enabling the unique ability to service ...
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On-site water treatment service from Tangent Environmental Technologies cuts costs
After more than two decades in the global oil patch, Stuart Snydmiller thinks the future for his start-up firm is in water, not petroleum. Or at least waste water.Tangent Environmental Technologies, owned with brother Jason and others, has taken existing technologies and put them together into a package that offers huge savings for drilling firms and any industrial operation that needs to ...
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EPA News Advisory: ASIG Sand Island Fuel Spill Response Update 2/6/15
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Hawaii State Department of Health (DOH) continue response operations to recover spilled jet fuel at the Airport Service Group International (ASIG) facility on Sand Island Access Road in Honolulu. EPA is leading the response effort and working with DOH’s Hazard Evaluation and Emergency Response branch and ASIG. NEW- Please visit EPA’s ...
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Coast Guard: BP let 9 to 18 barrels of oil in lake
An initial assessment of a Lake Michigan oil spill shows that between nine and 18 barrels of crude oil entered the lake following a malfunction at oil giant BP's sprawling northwestern Indiana refinery, the U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday. Coast Guard spokesman Chief Petty Officer Alan Haraf said the estimate comes from the Coast Guard's initial visual assessment Tuesday of the spill scene at ...
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Introducing the new JTV Truck – PTO Vacuum Excavator with jetter pump system at WEQ Fair
Vac-Tron Equipment and Vermeer Wisconsin together will be exhibiting at the WEQ Fair in Milwaukee on Monday and Tuesday, Sept. 12-13th, 2016. Vac-Tron is introducing it’s NEW JTV PTO truck and you won’t want to miss it! Come see us at BOOTH # 16. Vac-Tron Equipment will be showcasing it’s NEW JTV 873 PTO Truck. There is no other truck like it in the industry. The JTV 873 PTO is ...
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Canadian bulk carrier spills oil into Maumee River
Droves of cleanup workers spent much of the weekend trying to contain and collect 3,300 gallons of diesel fuel that spilled into Ohio's Maumee River Friday night by a Canadian bulk carrier. Loaded with grain, the Algonorth was leaving the Midwest Marine Terminal Friday night when the vessel's stern smashed into the dock, rupturing two fuel tanks 10 feet above the water line, according to the ...
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Benzene Levels Exceed Limits in 12 of the 17 Wells Contaminated in Jackson
After a massive gas spill in Jackson, WI, 17 private wells have been contaminated with gasoline. Levels of benzene, a gasoline component, in 12 of the wells were found to be higher than the safe drinking water standard of 5 parts per billion established by the federal government. The pipeline break that occurred on July 17th spilled an estimated 54,600 gallons of gasoline. An excavation of ...
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As BakerCorp continues to expand its global reach, it marks the one-year anniversary of its first branch in France
BakerCorp announced today that its Le Havre Branch in Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon in Normandy, France, has marked its one-year anniversary. The location is one of more than 90 branches around the globe in Europe, United States, Canada and Mexico. It’s an expansive reach that allows Baker to deliver the world’s leading inventory of rental storage tanks and application expertise to customers requiring ...
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North Dakota pipeline breaks, spews 20,600 barrels of oil
More than 20,000 barrels of crude oil have spewed out of a Tesoro Corp. oil pipeline in a wheat field in northwestern North Dakota, the state Health Department said Thursday. State environmental geologist Kris Roberts said the 20,600-barrel spill, among the largest recorded in the state, was discovered on Sept. 29 by a farmer harvesting wheat about nine miles north of Tioga. "The farmer was ...
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Imagination Meets Innovation
Here at Amthor, we take pride in creating solutions for our customers; we know not all needs are the same. In this case, a customer named Chris explained that his new septic pumping business, Septic Solutions located in Greer, SC, would also service small restaurants by pumping out their grease traps for proper ...
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