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Envisan wins important rehabilitation project in Norway
The city council and the port authority of Trondheim in Norway granted its port basin rehabilitation project to Envisan, the environmental subsidiary of Jan De Nul Group. With this contract Trondheim wants to restore the port basin to its desired depth and aims at stopping the further spread of the contaminated sediments. The project is highly ranked by the Norwegian environmental authorities. ...
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Envisan attends Forum Planète Bleue next week
On 25,26 and 27 September Envisan will attend the Forum Planète Bleue in France and will seize the opportunity to present the new treatment centre, CPEM. This centre will treat contaminated soils and dredging sediments. Afterwards the treated soils will be ready for reuse in civil engineering project. The construction of the centre will start mid-September and will be finished by the ...
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U.S. EPA designates area off Guam for disposal of clean sediments from dredging (GU)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has published a Final Rule in the Federal Register designating an ocean disposal site offshore of Guam for clean sediments from dredging projects. Dredging is necessary to maintain or improve safe navigation in existing ports and harbors, as well as when new shipping facilities are built. Whenever possible, the sediments from dredging projects are ...
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EPA concludes season’s dredging of New Bedford harbor contaminated sediment
This latest dredging effort started in May 2011 and focused on the northern cove on the Acushnet side of the Harbor and off-shore from the Titleist facility on Hadley Street in New Bedford. Approximately 11 acres of sediment were dredged this year, resulting in the removal of more than 21,600 cubic yards of contaminated sediment. Dredging activities will resume again in Summer 2012. The dredged ...
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Envisan finish their 2nd innovative project near Vlassenbroek
Water managers in Belgium and abroad are watching the works in the Sigma zone at Vlassenbroek (Dendermonde) with great interest. Why? More than 1.5 kilometre new dikes was built using an innovative technique. The construction material: 200,000 m³ spoils dredged from the river Scheldt. Since the summer of 2012, the Vlassenbroek Polder in Dendermonde has been set up as a 240 hectare ...
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EPA will speed up review of GE`s Hudson River cleanup
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to speed up its study of whether General Electric's massive $2 billion six-year dredging project on the Hudson River was effective in cleaning up PCB contamination. In a Dec. 18 letter to groups that met with him in Washington, D.C., this month, Mathy Stanislaus, who oversees the EPA's Superfund cleanup programs, agreed to begin the review ...
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Thermo Fisher Scientific participates in Muddy River restoration project
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, is participating in the massive remediation of the Muddy River, in cooperation with Simmons College, by supplying instruments that are used to screen for levels of sulfur in river sediment. Muddy River is part of Boston's Emerald Necklace, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted in the late 1800s as a 1,100 acre chain of parks linked ...
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Dredging firm to pay $105,000 fine for ocean dumping violations in Mass.
A Salem, Mass. dredging company has agreed to pay a penalty of $105,000 to settle EPA claims that it improperly disposed of dredged sediments. EPA asserted that Burnham Associates violated the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act, commonly known as the Ocean Dumping Act, as part of a dredging project in Hingham Harbor. Burnham, through the actions of its subcontracted towing company, ...
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Final cleanup plan selected for Lockheed West Superfund site
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a Record of Decision for the Lockheed West Superfund Site, outlining the agency’s plan to provide a permanent, long-term remedy for contamination in Elliott Bay near Seattle. “This cleanup plan will protect native wildlife and the health of people who live, work and recreate near Elliott Bay,” said Cami Grandinetti, EPA ...
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LimnoTech Takes Part in USACE Web Meeting on Lake Erie Harmful Algal Blooms (October 2014)
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo District hosted a web meeting on October 27, 2014, to discuss a recently completed study by engineering firms Ecology and Environment and LimnoTech on the placement of Toledo Harbor dredged sediment in the Western Lake Erie Basin and its influence on Harmful Algal Blooms. The purpose of the study was to answer the question: “What is the potential ...
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Sequoia Scientific, Inc., Ocean Instruments, and Geometius Deliver Sediment Dredging Measurement System
Sequoia Scientific, Inc. (Bellevue, WA), Ocean Instruments (Fall City, WA), and Sequoia’s Dutch distributor, Geometius, have delivered a Fast Oceanographic Automated Measurement (FOAM) system for dredge monitoring. The FOAM system is composed of a pump and winch with a fluid rotary joint, 100 m hybrid cable with hose and conductors, a tow sled with an RBR CTD and a Sequoia LISST-ABS, and a ...
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Two firms face fines for Ocean dumping violations in dredging operations in Mass. (MA)
Two New England firms are the subject of enforcement actions by both the U.S. EPA and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for improper disposal of dredged sediments in ocean waters during recent dredging projects in Massachusetts Bay harbor communities. With end of summer boating season and the resumption of annual dredging operations throughout New England waters, companies who are contracted to ...
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New Joint Venture Scoops Prestigious Castletownbere Harbour Contract
EDI, a joint venture between dredging experts DEC NV of Belgium and remediation experts Land and Water Remediation Ltd of the UK is carrying out a €9.5m dredging and contaminated sediment removal contract for the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources. The development, at Castletownbere on the southern end of Bantry Bay, will involve extending and upgrading Dinish Wharf and ...
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CEESCOPE Survey Program Commenced at Mississippi River Grain Terminal
Grain from US farming is transported down the Mississippi River in enormous quantities for export to customers all around the world. The grain barges that have been transported downriver are unloaded at grain elevators and rapidly transferred to cargo vessels alongside the docks. Ships are continuously arriving to collect their grain cargo and safe operation of the terminal relies on having ...
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PHOENIX Process Equipment Co Introduces HYDROSORT™ SAND CLASSIFIER
PHOENIX Process Equipment Co. has introduced the HYDROSORT™, an upward current sand classifier that can also be used to separate deleterious materials from sand. The equipment produces high quality, spec sand over a wide range in raw material quality. The Model HS HYDROSORT™ uses a fluidized bed that classifies by particle size or removes lighter, deleterious materials like lignite or ...
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PHOENIX Process Equipment Co Announces Expanded Belt Filter Press Line
PHOENIX Process Equipment Co., of Louisville, Kentucky, has announced an expanded line of Model WX Belt Filter Presses. The Model WX is available in several different configurations, each suited to the specific application. Many of its design features were selected particularly for rugged mining and aggregate installations. The basic configuration includes a fully welded mainframe, ...
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Tetra Tech awarded $20 million environmental management contract for the expansion of miami harbor
Tetra Tech, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEK) announced today that it has been awarded a $20 million contract, with option years for an additional $3.5 million, with the Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company, LLC to perform environmental management services and provide construction oversight as part of the Miami Harbor Construction Dredging Project. Tetra Tech’s scientists will provide environmental ...
By Tetra Tech
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BCI Seeking Partners for Projects to Degrade PCB's in the Field
BCI Seeking Partners for Projects to Degrade PCB's in the Field The BCI culture could be used for inoculation and treatment of PCB-contaminated groundwater and soil and for sediments that have been dredged from rivers (such as the Hudson River and Fox River). BCI already has the ability to grow this culture in the laboratory in volumes sufficient to add to pilot treatment ...
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ENSR assists offshore California LNG project
ENSR is providing environmental permitting and pipeline engineering support for the OceanWay liquefied natural gas (LNG) project located 28 miles off Los Angeles, California. ENSR, part of AECOM, is a leading global environmental services provider. The OceanWay project will provide natural gas to California, which currently uses natural gas for 40% of its electricity needs. The project ...
By AECOM
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EPA Finalizes Passaic River Cleanup; One of the Largest Superfund Projects in EPA History Will Protect People’s Health and the Environment
In an action that will protect people’s health and the environment, and benefit riverfront communities, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today finalized a plan to remove 3.5 million cubic yards of toxic sediment from the lower eight miles of the Passaic River in New Jersey, followed by capping that entire stretch of river bottom. The sediment in the Passaic River is severely ...
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