surface contaminant monitoring News
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Offers Opacity Monitor with Automatic Four-Point Linearity and Optical Surface Contamination Checking
FRANKLIN, Mass. (May 9, 2007) – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, announces the availability of the Model 445, an opacity and dust concentration monitor with built-in test functions that include automatic four-point linearity and optical surface contamination checks. Joining Thermo Fisher Scientific’s family of stack gas monitoring instrumentation, the Model 445 ...
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Solinst Canada Announces 2011 Symposium on Enhanced Monitoring and Remedial Methods for Contaminated Groundwater
Solinst Canada Ltd., manufacturer of high quality groundwater and surface water monitoring instrumentation, is proud to announce the 2011 Symposium on Enhanced Monitoring and Remedial Methods for Contaminated Groundwater. Following the success of their 2009 and 2010 Conferences, this is the third Symposium to be held at their office, located in Georgetown, Ontario Canada. The 2011 Symposium ...
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CoMo170 hand held contamination monitor
Laboratory Impex Systems launches CoMo170 a light weight, hand held contamination monitor. The CoMo170 monitors a large area - 170 cm2, its innovative CoMo detector technology uses thin-layer plastic scintillation, negating the need for gas filled or gas-flushed detectors, thus minimising operating costs.Capable of simultaneous or selective alpha and beta-gamma contamination measurement, CoMo170 ...
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Integral Continues Support to Pulp and Paper Industry, Joins NCASI
As part of a commitment to helping pulp and paper clients reduce their environmental impacts, Integral has joined the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement (NCASI), an independent nonprofit research institute that focuses on topics of interest to the forest products industry. “Integral’s sustaining membership allows us to stay closely connected with NCASI’s technical ...
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NanoRem Pilot Site – Spolchemie I, Czech Republic: Nanoscale zero-valent iron remediation of chlorinated hydrocarbons
The main aim of the study was to verify migration characteristics and remedial efficiency of two types of nZVI, NANOFER 25S and NANOFER STAR, using advanced procedures for monitoring NPs and vertical stratification of contamination. NANOFER 25S is an aqueous dispersion of nZVI particles with a surface modification based on the combination of a biodegradable organic and inorganic stabiliser and ...
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Additional cleanup decision finalized at camp edwards (MA)
EPA has signed a final decision document to address contamination near the “L Range” at the Massachusetts Military Reservation (MMR) on Cape Cod. The decision addresses both the groundwater contamination and its source. The majority of the L Range groundwater contamination is located on the eastern portion of the base, abutting the Town of Sandwich boundary, and sampling and ...
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EPA Removes Burrows Sanitation Site in Michigan from National List of Most Contaminated Sites
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that the Burrows Sanitation Superfund site in Hartford Township, Van Buren County, Michigan, has been officially removed from the Agency’s list of the most serious uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the nation. “After years of cleanup and monitoring by EPA and the State of Michigan, the Burrows site no longer ...
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EPA Revises Final Cleanup Plan for Ringwood Mines Superfund Site in Ringwood, New Jersey
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has determined that the Borough of Ringwood has satisfied the criteria specified in EPA’s June 30, 2014 final cleanup plan for the Ringwood Mines Superfund site that allows for a recycling center to be built on the O’Connor Disposal Area. Plans for addressing other areas of the Ringwood Mines site will remain the same as finalized in the June ...
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Pennsylvania American Water Experts Address Key Topics at Annual Statewide Water Industry Conference
Water industry professionals from Pennsylvania American Water will lead sessions on a number of critical industry topics at the 65th Annual Conference of the Pennsylvania Section of the American Water Works Association. The annual conference, set for April 23-25 in Hershey, brings together both investor-owned and municipal water system officials, managers, operators, regulators and suppliers from ...
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EPA Finalizes $47 Million Plan to Address Pollution in Three Areas of Ringwood Mines Superfund Site in Ringwood, New Jersey
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized its plan to address contamination in three areas of the Ringwood Mines/Landfill Superfund site in Ringwood, New Jersey. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, these areas were used to dispose of waste materials, including paint sludge and waste in drums, from the Ford Motor Company’s automobile assembly plant in Mahwah, New Jersey. ...
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Vista Clara awarded DOE grant for NMR monitoring of environmental remediation
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded Vista Clara a major R&D grant to develop novel NMR technologies for groundwater remediation monitoring. The grant was selected by the Office of Environmental Management, which manages the largest environmental cleanup program in the world at sites such as Hanford, Oak Ridge, and Savanah River. Environmental engineers at contaminated sites are ...
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Geosynthetics for CCR Containment and Closure
New federal regulations on the disposal of coal combustion residuals represent new approaches in response to events where coal ash has been inadvertently released from impoundments, the blowing of contaminants into the air and the leakage of potential contaminants into groundwater. “The rule establishes technical requirements for landfills and surface impoundments under Subtitle D of the ...
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Proposed Cleanup Plan for Peterson/Puritan Superfund Site in Cumberland and Lincoln R.I.
EPA has released a Proposed Cleanup Plan for the Peterson/Puritan, Inc. Superfund site, Operable Unit 2 (OU 2), located in Cumberland and Lincoln, R.I. The main components of Operable Unit 2 include the J. M. Mills Landfill, the Nunes Parcel and an area between these two areas called “Unnamed Island.” The Site is located within the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor. ...
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Abanaki Announces New Vapor-Tight Explosion Proof Groundwater Remediation System
Abanaki Corporation has added a Vapor-Tight, Explosion Proof Groundwater Remediation System to their expansive line of product offerings. This particular system has been designed to keep explosive vapors from being vented into the atmosphere. The oil skimming system consists of Abanaki's unique PetroXtractor belt oil skimmer equipped with explosion-proof electrical components, vapor-tight belt ...
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New monitoring tools for petrol additive MTBE in groundwater
Methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE) is a petrol additive which can contaminate groundwater supplies. MTBE often breaks down naturally in the environment, but regulators need to be certain that this is taking place. New research highlights a number of tools in development that may offer better data on spilled MTBE in the environment, and improve the ability to monitor its degradation. MTBE is added ...
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EPA seeks public input on cleanup plan for welsbach/gas mantle superfund site in Camden County, New Jersey
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a plan to clean up radioactive contamination on the portion of the Welsbach/General Gas Mantle Superfund site located in Gloucester City, N.J. The site consists of two former gas lamp manufacturing facilities –Welsbach in Gloucester City and the General Gas Mantle property in Camden County, New Jersey. The Welsbach Company and the ...
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Fort Peck Tribes are first in nation to assume key groundwater protection responsibilities
The Fort Peck Tribes Underground Injection Control (UIC) program has been approved by the US EPA, making the Tribes the first in the nation to assume the program to protect underground drinking water sources. As a result of this action, the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux (Fort Peck) Tribes of Montana are authorized to administer and enforce their own Class II injection well program under the ...
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Ten California water systems facing fines for failing to monitor E. Coli in drinking water
The US Environmental Protection Agency has ordered ten California public drinking water systems to monitor for Escherichia coli (E. coli) in the source water of their drinking water systems, or face penalties of up to $32,500 per day for each violation. E. coli is a type of fecal coliform bacteria commonly found in the intestines of warm-blooded animals and humans. The presence of E. coli in ...
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Agreement Ensures Groundwater Study at No. Smithfield, R.I. Superfund Site
The owner/operators and parties responsible for hazardous substance disposal at the Landfill & Resource Recovery Superfund Site in North Smithfield, R.I., have agreed to perform and pay for an investigation and study to evaluate the extent of, and cleanup options for, contaminated groundwater at the site. Until 2014, groundwater samples collected in the monitoring wells at the edge of the ...
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Explosive hazwaste removed from Massachusetts superfund site
A time critical removal action was started by federal authorities this week at the Nuclear Metals, Inc. Superfund site in Concord Massachusetts to remove containers of hazardous substances that pose a risk of fire or explosion and radioactive substances. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, undertook the action at the request of the Concord Fire Department which expressed concern ...
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