Contaminated Sites Articles
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Regional Screening Levels EPA RSL 1.0 and EPA RSL 0.1
Regional Screening Levels (RSL) refers to risk-based concentrations developed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency using standardized equations which integrate exposure information assumptions with EPA’s toxicity data. RSLs aim to protect human health by assessing the risk the contaminants and other stressors pose on humans and ecological receptors. RSL tables are generic, ...
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Brownfield Development Will Help the Global Housing Crisis
Brownfields no longer have to be unused, derelict sites. Land contaminated with explosive materials, hydrocarbons and other organic contaminants, can be safely reclaimed for residential and mixed-use purposes to help address housing and real estate shortages. And contaminated soil no longer has to be trucked to a landfill where it will create future environmental liabilities. Treating the ...
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EPA Performance- TPH Soil - Case Study
"The UVF-3100A exhibited the following desirable characteristics of a field TPH measurement device; (1) good accuracy, (2) good precision, (3) high sample throughput, (4) low measurement costs and (5) ease of ...
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Three Ways to Simplify Brownfield Redevelopment
Petroleum brownfields are exceptionally prevalent throughout the United States. As of July 2021, data suggests that approximately 238 million people live within three miles of a leaking underground storage tank (also known as a LUST). That number accounts for almost three-quarters of the entire population. The negative aspects of brownfields are obvious. Contaminants of concern, like Methyl ...
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British Columbia Protocol 10 for Contaminated Sites
British Columbia Protocol 10 allows for developing water quality standards for cadmium and zinc and is applied in specific sites to protect freshwater aquatic life. The protocol provides a table containing precalculated and preapproved water quality standards for water hardness up to 500mg/L. The Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment (CCME) provides cadmium and zinc standards, while ...
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Marwell Tar Pit— Whitehorse, YT, Canada - Case Study
Project Details: Legacy WWII-era former refinery site containing extremely high concentrations of heavy hydrocarbon waste, including free product tar. Located in the middle of the City of Whitehorse, and surrounded by residential communities as well as commercial & industrial development. ...
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Iron Creek’s Patented Enhanced Thermal Conduction technology is Changing the Thermal Remediation Paradigm - Marwell Tar Pit Remediation - Whitehorse, Yukon - Case Study
The Marwell Tar Pit, located in an industrial area adjacent to the downtown core of Whitehorse was the largest single-source hydrocarbon contaminated site in the Yukon. In the 1940s, it was used as a disposal location for waste tar generated from a decommissioned World War II oil refinery and later as an unpermitted dump site for liquid wastes remaining exposed until the early 1960s when it was ...
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(A) New Take on Thermal Desorption - Using Enhanced Thermal Conduction (ETC) for the Remediation of Legacy Hydrocarbon Impacts at Sites in the Yukon and British Columbia - Case Study
Iron Creek Group Inc (Iron Creek) provides clients around the world with an innovative and cost effective thermal remediation technology to address legacy hydrocarbon waste and organic soil impacts. Using a process called Enhanced Thermal Conduction, Iron Creek was able to successfully treat more than 24,000 tonnes of hydrocarbon impacted soil at two separate legacy sites located in both the ...
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Chemical Quality Assurance Reporting
A chemical quality assurance report refers to documentation that consist of planned and systematic actions focused on providing information about the accuracy, reliability, usability and comparability of analysis done on chemicals in a particular setting, for instance, those found in underground water in a site. It is generated based on the findings of research or analyses performed in an ...
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Kara Trutnov Site: Successful Reduction of Mixed Contamination of Chromium and Chlorinated Organics
Remediation company EKORA in collaboration with company NANO IRON, producer of zerovalent iron nanoparticles (nZVI), conducted pilot injection of surface stabilized nanoparticles of elemental iron (NANOFER 25S) and their subsequent full-scale application to eliminate groundwater contamination of chlorinated hydrocarbons (CHCs) and hexavalent chromium (Cr6+) at KARA Trutnov site in Czech Republic. ...
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Yukon Contaminated Sites Regulations
The Government of Yukon’s Environmental Programs Branch regulates contaminated sites under the Contaminated Sites Regulation and the Environment Act. The Yukon Contaminated Sites Regulation provide regulations for identification, restoration and liability for contaminated sites. It states that a site is contaminated if the contaminant concentration equals or exceeds the defined numerical ...
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The Emergency-Ready Green Tech for Remediating Oil Spills
When oil spills happen, an immediate response is necessary to mitigate the environmental impact, particularly the risk of contaminants seeping into the soil and groundwater. Iron Creek Group’s patented soil remediation technology is the most advanced and efficient way to restore terrestrial ecosystems in the industry.Our Enhanced Thermal Conduction (ETC) soil remediation technology is streamlined ...
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What Are The SDGs And Is There Progress?
This blog is written to inform readers of the state-of-play of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The content, in-the-main is sobering. However, in following blogs we will write about what SMEs can do in their day-to-day operations to help the world to reach some of the goals. In 2015 the United Nations General Assembly instituted the 17 SDGs via its 2030 Agenda for ...
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ETC Soil Remediation, A More Efficient Way to Treat Explosives-Contaminated Soil.
When industries are ready to restore sites contaminated with explosives-impacted soil, they can cut their timeline in half — while staying on budget — by choosing to deploy advanced technology that’s proven to outpace traditional soil remediation methods.In the U.S., it’s estimated there are over 1.2 million tons of explosives-impacted soil contaminated sites. It goes without saying that this ...
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Red Hill Needs to Think About the Soil— STAT.
The problems with the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility continue to percolate. It’s a complex situation but there is a cost-effective solution that can remediate the petroleum-impacted soil and prevent it from causing more harm to human health and the environment of Oahu, HI. While the Navy and Hawaiian Government are currently working towards a resolution for the storage facility, the ...
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New Jersey (NJ) Vapour Intrusion Screening Levels and Indoor Remediation Standards
Vapor intrusion (VI) occurs when volatile chemicals find their way from the subsurface to overlying buildings through preferential pathways or subsurface soils. Vapor intrusion affects the indoor air quality of the concerned buildings and leads to chronic or acute human health issues. Through the Technical Requirements for Site Remediation, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection ...
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CL#3 - In Situ BioLogix Application - Case Study
Site Information Chlorinated solvents were found in soil and ground water beneath a drum storage area at a manufacturing facility in central Alberta. The contamination was mainly found in the uppermost occurrence of ground water in an intratill silty sand formation. Within this zone the contamination had spread to cover an area of approximately 3,500 square feet. The contaminants found at the ...
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Stettler BioLogix Application - Case Study
Site Information - Located in Stettler, AB. Site was contaminated with BTEX/F1-F4 with BTEX/F1&F2 exceeding ...
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Industrial Site Central, Indiana - Case Study
Site Description Chlorinated solvents were found in soil and around water beneath a drum storage area at a manufacturing facility in central Indiana. The contamination was mainly found in the uppermost occurrence of ground water in an intratill silty sand formation. Within this zone the contamination had spread to cover an area of approximately 3,500 square ...
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New Jersey AC 7 26 D Remediation Standards
The New Jersey (USA) AC 7 26 D Remediation Standards developed by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection is responsible for the implementation of the Brownfield and Contaminated Site Remediation Act, NJSA 58:10B-12, among other statutes such as The Industrial Site Recovery Act (ISRA), NJSA 13:1K‐6 et seq., the Water Pollution Control Act, NJSA 58:10A‐1 et seq., and the New Jersey ...
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