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Envirogen Announces Start-Up of Large Fluidized Bed Reactor System for Perchlorate Remediation at Nevada Industrial Site
Envirogen Technologies, Inc. (Envirogen) announced the successful start-up of a large-scale fluidized bed bioreactor (FBR) system for American Pacific Corporation (AMPAC), to achieve the biodegradation of perchlorate and other constituents from groundwater in the area of a former manufacturing facility in Henderson, Nevada. The 1.2 million gallon per day (MGD) capacity system replaces a smaller ...
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EPA Region 7 Comments on Republic Services` Intentions to Build Isolation Barrier at West Lake Landfill Superfund Site
EPA Region 7 is welcoming a commitment by Republic Services, Inc., to construct an isolation barrier at the West Lake Landfill Superfund Site in Bridgeton, Mo., Regional Administrator Karl Brooks said today. Although EPA has not yet seen the formal, detailed plans that will outline the construction of such a barrier, the Agency learned today that Republic Services has committed to the project. ...
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EPA Region 7 Comments on Republic Services` Intentions to Build Isolation Barrier at West Lake Landfill Superfund Site
EPA Region 7 is welcoming a commitment by Republic Services, Inc., to construct an isolation barrier at the West Lake Landfill Superfund Site in Bridgeton, Mo., Regional Administrator Karl Brooks said today. Although EPA has not yet seen the formal, detailed plans that will outline the construction of such a barrier, the Agency learned today that Republic Services has committed to the project. ...
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Bioremediation Project: Local labratory assists local community land use transition
C&T is participating in a project to evaluate the application of phytoremediation (plant based remediation) approach to clean up a long abandoned contaminated railway right of way inBerkeley. This project will be the first real world test of this approach and involves the planting of more than 2, 000 Chinese brake ferns (Pteris vittata) that have been shown to suck Arsenic out of the soil ...
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The Brave New World of Performance-Based Remediation Contracts
What’s changed? Performance-based remediation contracts are nothing new, but they've long been the exception rather than the rule. What is new is a fast-growing trend for government agencies, major industrial companies, and the petroleum/natural gas sectors to deemphasize time and material remediation contracts in favor of fixed-price or performance-based contracts. For decades, failure ...
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GEI Enhances Contaminated Sediments Practice with Shoreline Work
GEI Consultants, Inc.,one of the nation's leading geotechnical, environmental, water resources, and ecological science and engineering firms announced today the accelerated growth of its national Contaminated Sediments Practice. The company has strengthened its offerings both through acquisition and the hire of a number of senior experts and mid-level technical staff in waste engineering, marine ...
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CSA Group and IPAC-CO2 Research Inc. Announce World`s First Bi-National Standard for Geologic Storage of Carbon Dioxide
CSA Group, a leading developer of standards, codes and training programs, and the International Performance Assessment Centre for Geologic Storage of Carbon Dioxide (IPAC-CO2 Research Inc.), an environmental non-government organization (ENGO), today announced the world's first bi-national carbon capture and storage (CCS) standard for the geologic storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) for Canada and the ...
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Soil experts recreate soils from Mars
Soil experts from Cranfield University have developed a replica soil for Mars in a project for the European Space Agency (ESA) to help maximise the performance of the next robotic rovers to be sent to the planet. The ‘soil surrogate’ is one of a number of soil types characterized by the current NASA Mars Exploration Rovers (MER), Spirit and Opportunity, which were sent to Mars in ...
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GEI`s Washington, D.C. Office Announces Work on Three Major Projects
GEI Consultants, Inc., one of the nation's leading geotechnical, environmental, water resources, and ecological science and engineering firms, announced today work on three new projects under the leadership of its Washington, D.C. office. The Marriott Marquis Hotel and Blue Plains Tunnel are situated within the nation's capital. Wolf Creek Dam, the highest hazard dam within the purview of the ...
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EPA Proposes Two Massachusetts Sites to be Added to National Superfund List
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed two additions to the National Priorities List (NPL) – commonly referred to as Superfund – in Massachusetts. The NPL is a national list of sites that require further investigation and potential cleanup in order to protect human health and the environment in the long term. The sites being proposed to the NPL are the former Walton ...
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Oy Vey! The Brave New World of Performance-Based Remediation Contracts
What’s changed? Performance-based remediation contracts are nothing new, but they've long been the exception rather than the rule. What is new is a fast-growing trend for government agencies, major industrial companies, and the petroleum/natural gas sectors to deemphasize time and material remediation contracts in favor of fixed-price or performance-based contracts. For decades, failure ...
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EOS Remediation, LLC is pleased to announce Charles Newell, P.E., Ph.D., BCEE and David Adamson, P.E., Ph.D., of GSI Environmental Inc., as guest speakers for this highly topical webinar. Participants will receive an overview of matrix diffusion processes and its effects on managing chlorinated solvent sites. Some key topics covered will include: Field methods for measuring storage in low ...
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EPA approves additional field work at Fletcher’s paint superfund site in Milford, N.H.
EPA has approved additional field investigations requested by the General Electric Co. (GE) at the Fletcher’s Paint Works and Storage Facility Superfund Site in Milford, New Hampshire. GE’s contractor, Arcadis US Inc. began these investigations in April 2012. These activities will continue for approximately three months. Implementation of these field investigations will result in ...
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WRI launches new CCS regulatory matrix
WRI has recently launched a new online tool that compares Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) regulations, standards, and best practice guidelines. Industry has been exploring CCS as an option to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants for several years, but so far it remains at a demonstration level. To reach the next stage of deployment, it must be tried at scale on different types of ...
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ASTM D6009 - 12 Standard Guide for Sampling Waste Piles
This guide is intended to provide guidance for sampling waste piles. It can be used to obtain samples for waste characterization related to use, treatment, or disposal; to monitor an active pile; to prepare for closure of the waste pile; or to investigate the contents of an abandoned pile. Techniques used to sample include both in-place evaluations of the ...
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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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Withdrawn Standard: ASTM E1984-03 Standard Guide for Process of Sustainable Brownfields Redevelopment (Withdrawn 2012)
This guide covers redevelopment of a Brownfields property for all stakeholders. This guide identifies impediments to Brownfields development and suggests solutions to facilitate redevelopment. The sustainable Brownfields redevelopment process is a voluntary effort that actively engages property owners, developers, government agencies, and the community in conducting corrective action, economic ...
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ASTM D7100 - 11 Standard Test Method for Hydraulic Conductivity Compatibility Testing of Soils with Aqueous Solutions
1. Scope 1.1 This test method covers hydraulic conductivity compatibility testing of saturated soils in the laboratory with aqueous solutions that may alter hydraulic conductivity (for example, waste related liquids) using a flexible-wall permeameter. A hydraulic conductivity test is ...
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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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Tetra Tech Awarded $55 Million USEPA Pollution Prevention Program
Tetra Tech, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEK) announced today that it has been awarded a contract valued at up to $55 million to continue its support for high priority pollution prevention programs, including evaluating innovative technologies and providing research and development support to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) Office of Research and Development, ...
By Tetra Tech
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