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Soil & Groundwater Newsletter October 21, 2010 |
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EPA proposes to add nine new Hazardous waste sites to superfund’s national priorities list
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to add nine hazardous waste sites that pose risks to human health and the environment to the general Superfund section of the National Priorities List (NPL). Superfund is the federal program that investigates and cleans up the most complex, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the country. EPA is also withdrawing its 1992 proposal to add the GBF Inc., dump site in Antioch, Calif. to the NPL, because under a consent order the California Department of Toxic Substances Control continues to be the lead agency overseeing ... |
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Assessment of landslides using acoustic real-time monitoring
Researchers at the U.K.`s Loughborough University Civil and Building Engineering department have won the Loughborough Enterprise Awards for Commercialization by demonstrating a technolgy that could save lives around the world and lessen devastation to infrastructure. The one-year project, which is funded by the U.K.`s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, is being led by Dr Neil Dixon, Professor of Geotechnical Engineering Dr Matthew Spriggs from Loughborough University, working with students at the university. They developed a device to gauge the stability of slopes ... |
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