hazardous waste remediation Articles
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Guide to Documenting and Managing Cost and Performance Information for Remediation Projects, Revised Version
Untitled Document A key objective of the Guide to Documenting and Managing Cost and Performance Information for Remediation Projects (the guide) is to provide a tool for improving the collection, documentation, and management of data by describing a standard set of parameters for reporting cost and performance information about treatment technologies. Since the first ...
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A New Apparatus for the Evaluation of Electro-Kinetic Processes in Hazardous Waste Management
Possible uses of electro-kinetics for hazardous waste site remediation are being investigated. This paper describes a new apparatus which has been specifically designed, fabricated, and assembled to evaluate the viability, feasibility, practicality, and potential costs of these conceivable techniques experimentally. Results of studies on the existence of electro-osmotic flow in compacted clay and ...
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SRS Crisafulli Guest Author David Zamida on Gold Mining (part 3 of 3)
Article submitted by David Zamida, Mineral Project Manager and Mining Property Broker for BCgold.com Superfund The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), also known as Superfund, was created by the United States government in 1980. This fund was created to finance cleanup of hazardous waste sites. Superfund grants earmark funds for hazardous waste ...
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Optical Remote Sensing in the United States
Recent studies that involve the use of optical remote sensing (ORS) techniques to measure gaseous and particulate pollutants have rekindled interest among environmental researchers and regulators in this decades-old technology. This article describes some of the key research and development projects that are helping restore ORS-based methods to the list of currently available emissions ...
By Arcadis
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Integrated Site Closure Achieves Business and Regulatory Goals
A new concept for cleanup of contaminated properties and hazardous waste sites applicable under federal and state regulatory programs is helping clients achieve both business and regulatory goals at their sites. The concept, called 'Integrated Site Closure', is the seamless integration and delivery of services necessary to reach regulatory closure of contaminated properties. Regulatory closure ...
By AECOM
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Application of current risk-based remediation criteria for the post-closure assessment of a former National Priorities List (NPL) site
Hurricane accelerated erosion and land loss of the Mississippi River coastal zone has necessitated a re evaluation of environmental risk at closed National Priority List (NPL) industrial waste sites in Louisiana, USA. Clean up criteria of a site were evaluated under the Louisiana Risk Evaluation Corrective Action Program (RECAP 2003). An assessment of the closed site using RECAP 2003 indicated ...
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Remediation Case Studies and Technology Assessments
Untitled Document The Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable (FRTR) promotes interagency cooperation to advance the use of innovative technologies for the remediation of hazardous waste sites. One of the FRTR’s priorities is the documentation and distribution of cost and performance information for completed and ongoing remediation projects. ...
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Optimisation approach for pollution source identification in groundwater: an overview
Groundwater pollution occurs from different anthropogenic sources like leakage from Underground Storage Tanks (USTs) and depositories, leakage from hazardous waste dump sites and soak pits. Remediation of these contaminated sites requires optimal decision-making system so that the remediation is done in a cost-effective and efficient manner. Identification of unknown pollution sources plays an ...
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Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable: Creating Tools for the Hazardous Waste Cleanup Community
Untitled Document The Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable leads the federal government’s efforts to promote interagency cooperation to advance the use of innovative technologies for the remediation of hazardous waste sites and transfer the benefits of these cooperative efforts to the site remediation community. Since its inception more than ten years ...
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EPA Revises Water Quality Criteria
Tens of thousands of members of the regulated community from industrial facilities with air emissions and wastewater discharges to municipal wastewater treatment plants, to hazardous waste site managers may be affected by changes to the WQC. US EPA Water Quality Criteria (WQC) which attempt to protect human health and the environment associated with the US waters, serve as the basis for most ...
By AECOM
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