Soil Cleaning News
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EPA Lowers Recommended Screening Levels for Lead-Contaminated Soil
Earlier this year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it had lowered recommended screening levels and strengthening guidance for investigating and cleaning up lead-contaminated soil in residential areas. As a result of the lower screening levels, EPA also shared that it expects to investigate more residential properties for potential cleanup under the Superfund law and the ...
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New Lower Screening Levels for Lead in Contaminated Soil and Resources to Protect Children and Families in Puerto Rico
In January, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it was lowering recommended screening levels and strengthening guidance for investigating and cleaning up lead-contaminated soil in residential areas where children live and play. As a result of the lower screening levels, EPA also declared it expects to investigate more residential properties for potential cleanup under the ...
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Protection Reagents, Environmental Goods Standards, Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
On the occasion of Thanksgiving and Christmas, Alfa Chemistry would like to express its sincere gratitude to its global customers. In addition to discounts and exquisite gifts offered to ordering customers, the company also continuously improves its product lines. Fairly recently, Alfa Chemistry announced the upgrade of its featured products, i.e., protection reagents, environmental goods ...
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OTT HydroMet Launches Firmware Update for its Kipp & Zonen DustIQ Soiling System
DustIQ is an optical sensor to measure the amount of dust, sand, and other shading objects on PV panels. It is used to determine the soiling ratio, optimize cleaning schedules, increase the profitability of PV installations – especially in arid and desert areas. With the new firmware update, among other advantages, the DustIQ adapts to surrounding conditions faster and enables an easier ...
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Iron Creek Group Wins Esteemed Award for Sustainable Technology that Remediates Petroleum-Impacted Soil
North American based Iron Creek Group cleans environmentally impacted sites using the contaminants to fuel the clean-up and restoration of the soil. Right now, their technology is the best solution to help the Navy quickly and efficiently clean up the petroleum-impacted land around the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage facility in Oahu, HI. The group was awarded an esteemed Canadian Brownfield Award ...
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Alfa Chemistry Integrates Its Product Portfolio of Environmental Goods Standards
Environmental pollution is a huge problem for all humankind. To facilitate research work regarding to this field, Alfa Chemistry announces that it has integrated its product portfolio of environmental goods standards earlier this month. As for now, the company offers three types of environmental goods standards, namely, chlorinated phenol and resin acids standards, drinking water disinfection ...
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Come See EON at the Florida Remediation Conference 2019!
Our team is getting ready to travel to Orlando to attend the Florida Remediation Conference on November 7-8. Come visit us in Booth #512 to learn about our soil and groundwater cleanup ...
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Geotech Attends the Florida Remediation Soil and Ground Water Cleanup Conference in Orlando, Florida
The month of November began with Walter Wood, PG, Geotech’s Manager of Customer Software Support, manning a booth at the annual Florida Remediation Soil and Groundwater Cleanup Conference, in Orlando, FL. Walter lives in central Florida, and has worked on many environmental projects there, interacting with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and several of the Florida Water ...
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On World Soil Day, Newcastle leads the way
The CRC for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment (CRC CARE) addresses environmental contamination of all kinds, with a strong focus on soil pollution, and the CRC for High Performance Soils (Soil CRC) aims to improve the productivity of Australia’s agricultural land. This year’s World Soil Day (Wednesday 5 December), which is themed ‘Be the solution to ...
By CRC Care
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Ignore soil pollution at humanity’s peril
Soil pollution it is a major part of a wider problem that far exceeds the impact of climate change and must be taken far more seriously by the private and public sectors globally, according to one of the world’s foremost contamination scientists. Professor Ravi Naidu, Chief Executive Officer of Australian contamination research agency CRC CARE, issued the challenge as part of his opening ...
By CRC Care
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Eijkelkamp Soil & Water measures water quality for Dutch Water Board
Eijkelkamp Soil & Water recently installed two measuring buoys in the Berkel river at the request of the Rijn en IJssel Water Board. At the beginning of November, waste water from a factory nearby ended up in the Berkel river due to a breakage in a pressure pipe. Rijn en IJssel Water Board started a major cleaning of the Berkel river. Before, during and after the cleaning, Eijkelkamp Soil ...
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How Does Fine Dust Affect Solar Systems?
A two-year MIT study revealed how air pollution negatively affects the performance of solar panels. The particles in the air prevent part of the incoming the solar irradiance to reach solar panels. For their observations, they chose Delhi, India as the location, as it is probably the most polluted city in the world. The MIT scientists discovered that this can lead to a reduction in transmission ...
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Soil washing - a suitable pretreatment process for vacuum distillation during soil remediation
Soil washing and vacuum distillation are two different methods used for soil remediation. It is because of their differences that they compliment each other where large volumes of contaminated soil need to be remediated in short time. Soil washing is a chemical-physical process which is commonly used for soil contaminated with heavy metal, mineral oil, tar and other organic pollutants. Soil ...
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Euro-Tech Presents the World Launch of the FINN T35 HydroSeeder®
FINN, a leading provider of erosion control equipment announced today that EURO-TEC will unveil the new FINN T35 HydroSeeder for the European market at the Paysalia Show in France. The FINN T35 is an entry-level hydroseeding machine loaded with features that come standard with every unit. Designed to easily manage professional quality seeding, fiber mulching, straw tacking all with the ...
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Land use can achieve 30% of carbon cuts by 2030
Land use is often a forgotten priority, yet those of us who wish to contain global warming and avert catastrophic climate change have a natural ally: the land. As nations plan to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel combustion, an international team of scientists has calculated just how much the natural and farmed world could contribute to future stability by absorbing ever more ...
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Removing PFAS an award-winning idea
A process to remove per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from contaminated water has won the 2017 CARE award, which recognises sustainable technologies and innovations in the area of contamination assessment and remediation of the environment. Mr Pearce Anderson, from InSite, accepted the award for his company’s technology, InTreat™ Water, at the CleanUp 2017 conference in ...
By CRC Care
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Many disasters, few solutions: chemical contamination needs ‘Paris-like agreement’
The head of a global forum has called for a Paris-like international agreement to combat chemical contamination, which he says has five times the impact of climate change. Professor Ravi Naidu, Managing Director of the Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment (CRC CARE), told the CleanUp 2017 global forum this week that a clean Earth is ...
By CRC Care
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Clean oil spill on water with our biological solution
More and more biological appliances around oil spill fighting are available. No product have so much potential like our SES to clean water without any side effects so fast and secure. We are looking for companies what have interest to use our technology to clean efficent by earn a lot of money. The handling of SES is easy and allowed to clean huge areas for all cleaning crews. We look foir ...
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Advantage by energy efficiency
When you speak of energy efficiency in thermal soil remediation, you cannot get past the VacuDry – technology. econ industries’ VacuDry technology has an energy efficiency of more than 80%. Concretely, 80% of the energy of the source fuel is transferred to the soil as thermal energy. A highly efficient boiler/burner unit ensures an exceptionally effective heat transfer from the ...
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KOBELCO Highlights GWS Environmental Contractors, Inc.
Residents and patients of the Homestead Rehabilitation and Homecare Center in rural Sussex County, NJ, enjoy 14-acres with magnificent country views, including two tranquil ponds, gardens and several buildings. Long a part of the county’s history, the 102-bed facility was recently in need of some grounds maintenance. One of the projects to be completed was the removal and remediation of an ...
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