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EPA Completes Cleanup System for Soil, Water Contamination in Grants, NM
Today the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the New Mexico Environment Department marked the completion of a new system to address contamination from a plume of chemicals in Grants, New Mexico. The chemicals, called chlorinated solvents, are believed to have come from a dry-cleaning business. The contamination spread through soils and a shallow aquifer under the city, which led the EPA to ...
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COSAN Chile Surveys Water Well Drilling Locations with GMR Non-Invasive NMR Tools
In early 2022, Vista Clara delivered a GMR system to COSAN Chile. COSAN offers non-invasive surface NMR geophysical surveys to deep, water well drilling customers. By offering this service they have increased their customers certainty of finding groundwater and reduced the risk associated with drilling a dry well. Since taking delivery, COSAN had surveyed more than 40 locations, drilled 15 ...
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EPA orders Lapwai School District maintenance shop to cleanup threat to nearby drinking water wells
The Lapwai School District in Lapwai, ID, must clean up an inactive drywell contaminated with solvents (TCE & PCE) to protect nearby public drinking water wells. The cleanup will be conducted under a legal order issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The drywell lies under an asphalt parking lot at the Lapwai School District (District) bus maintenance facility (204 ...
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EPA continues outreach for private well access near mills gap site (Former CTS Plant) in Asheville, N.C.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will continue the process of obtaining access agreements to private drinking water wells this week near the Mills Gap Site, site of the former CTS plant, in Asheville, N.C. An August 19, 2009 preliminary data sampling result from a private drinking water well located northeast of the plant indicated elevated levels of trichloroethene (TCE). EPA ...
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Seismoelectric Groundwater Location Equipment
Well water location. Aquifer depth, yield and thickness reported before drilling a water well. The GF6 seismoelectric technology is used for groundwater surveys {aquifer depth & yield} before drilling a water well. GF6 equipment sales and training are available world wide. Most people go straight to having a water well drilled before investigating where the aquifer is (or) if there is a good ...
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EPA Finalizes Cleanup Plan for Cidra, Puerto Rico Superfund Site
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized its plan to clean up contaminated soil and groundwater at the Cidra Groundwater Contamination site in Cidra, Puerto Rico. The site includes portions of the Cidra commercial district and an industrial park in Cidra. The EPA is requiring a combination of cleanup technologies to address the contamination within distinct areas of the site, ...
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EPA Encourages the Public to Comment on Proposed Cleanup Plan for Cidra, Puerto Rico Superfund Site; Proposed Plan Will Address Contaminated Soil and Ground Water; Dec. 4 Public Meeting Announced
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a plan to clean up contaminated soil and ground water at the Cidra Ground Water Contamination site in Cidra, Puerto Rico. The site includes portions of the commercial district and an industrial park in Cidra. The EPA’s plan calls for a combination of cleanup technologies within distinct areas of the site, specifically a dry cleaner ...
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Agreement reached to address contamination at CTS Site in Asheville, NC
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and CTS Corporation have reached an agreement, an Administrative Order and Settlement Agreement on Consent (AOC), to conduct a Remedial Investigation and Feasibility Study (RI/FS) at the CTS of Asheville, Inc. Site in Asheville, NC. The RI serves as the mechanism for collecting data to characterize site conditions, determine the nature and extent of ...
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Wyoming to Lead Further Investigation of Water Quality Concerns Outside of Pavillion with Support of EPA
The State of Wyoming is announcing that it will further investigate drinking water quality in the rural area east of Pavillion, Wyoming. This will be done with the support of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (WDEQ) and the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (WOGCC) will lead the scientific investigation and will seek to ...
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EPA Adds Unimatic Manufacturing Corporation site in Fairfield, NJ to the Federal Superfund List; PCBs Contaminated Site
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has added the Unimatic Manufacturing Corporation site in Fairfield, New Jersey to its Superfund list of hazardous waste sites. Unimatic formerly used the site to run a metals molding facility and operated machines using lubricating oil that contained polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). The company’s operations caused the soil, ground water and a ...
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$31m plan proposed to clean up groundwater at Moses Lake, Washington
A comprehensive clean-up plan for the trichloroethylene (TCE)-contaminated groundwater at the Moses Lake Wellfield Contamination Superfund site has been issued for public review by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The site is located just north of Moses Lake and includes the Grant County Airport, the former Larson Air Force Base, and areas south of the airport. “This cleanup plan ...
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EPA terminates negotiations with Dow Chemical on river clean-ups
US Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 has stopped its negotiations with Dow Chemical aimed at a settlement to conduct a study and interim cleanup actions for dioxin contamination in the Tittabawassee River system. 'EPA does not believe that the deal Dow is offering goes far enough,' said Ralph Dollhopf, Associate Director for the Superfund Division of EPA's Regional Office in Chicago. ...
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EPA Proposes to Add the Unimatic Manufacturing Corporation site in Fairfield, NJ to the Superfund List; Soil, Water and Building Contaminated with PCBs
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today proposed to add the Unimatic Manufacturing Corporation site in Fairfield, New Jersey to its Superfund list of the country’s most hazardous waste sites. Unimatic formerly used the site to run a metals molding facility and operated machines using lubricating oil that contained polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). The company’s operations ...
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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 Seeks Public Input on Proposed Actions for Two Massachusetts Military Reservation Sites
EPA is seeking public input on proposed actions for two sites on the Massachusetts Military Reservation (MMR). A 30-day public comment period, ending Aug. 16, begins today for two “Remedy Selection Plans” which outline the proposed alternatives for addressing groundwater contamination at the sites. There will also be a public information meeting on July 24 on these topics. The plans ...
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Can access to information protect communities from pollution? A lesson from map Ta Phut, Thailand
Today is International Right to Know Day, a global initiative to share ideas and stories on right to information (RTI) laws and transparent governance. This blog post provides an inside look at how citizens from one Thai community are seeking access to information in order to protect themselves from environmental pollution. On May 5, 2012, 12 people were killed and 129 injured in ...
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FINAPP WINNER OF THE EUROPEAN INNOVATION COUNCIL (EIC).
The European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) today published the results of the evaluation of the projects submitted to the March 2023 cut-off of the EIC Accelerator call. It is with great pride that we announce that Finapp, with EUR 3 million, is among the winning projects. Finapp will use this support from the EIC to develop further, equally disruptive applications, this ...
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Representative Rodney Frelinghuysen and EPA Tour Superfund Sites in Morris, Essex and Sussex Counties
Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator Judith Enck and Congressmember Rodney Frelinghuysen today toured several Superfund sites in Morris, Essex, and Sussex Counties in N.J. They were joined by state and local officials to highlight the effectiveness of the federal Superfund law in protecting the health of people who live and work near contaminated sites. “New Jersey has ...
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Why You Should Monitor Groundwater?
What is groundwater? Groundwater is water that is stored below the earth’s surface. When rain or other sources of water come into contact with the ground, the majority of it travels below the surface. Though much of this moisture is then absorbed by plants or returned to the atmosphere (through infiltration), some water will travel deeper beneath the surface – where it reaches and ...
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EPA Adds Five Hazardous Waste Sites to Superfund’s National Priorities List and Proposes an Additional Seven
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is adding five hazardous waste sites that pose risks to human health and the environment to the Superfund National Priorities List (NPL). A separate action includes a proposal to add seven sites to the list. “Since the creation of the Superfund program 35 years ago, EPA has been addressing the risk to human health and the environment as ...
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