Potential Site Contamination Articles & Analysis
14 articles found
This zone has been set aside as a buffer zone around the ‘Groundwater Extraction Exclusion Zone’ from groundwater contamination from surrounding industrial sites. The embargo to the surrounding areas allows to management of sites with potential contamination by restricting new access to ...
In Situ Bioremediation Eliminated Pump and Treat and Ion-Exhange Treatment Cost Site closure reached in less than half the time and at less than half the cost CL-Out bioremediation was implemented at a confidential manufacturing site to remediate nitrate and perchlorate concentrations in soil and ground water. A pump and treatment system was installed and ...
Assessment levels for Soil and Sediment in Western Australia were adopted by the Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) to provide measures which are used in determining whether sites are contaminated. The assessment covers substances which threaten human health and the environment. ...
The EPA Regional Screening Levels (RSL) are used for site screening and as initial cleanup goals. In site screening, the most crucial role of the RSL is to aid identify areas, contaminants, and conditions that need further federal attention at a particular site. In instances whereby the concentrations of a ...
Because it has proven effective in assessing biological impacts of potentially toxic contaminants, profiling of endogenous metabolites (metabolomics) may help screen out contaminants with a lower likelihood of eliciting biological impacts, thereby prioritizing the most biologically‐important contaminants. ...
Geostatistics meets a growing interest for the remediation forecast of potentially contaminated sites (both chemical/radiological): pollution mapping, contaminated volumes estimation, integration of auxiliary information, setup of adaptive sampling strategies. ...
Landmark's Historical Map and Land Use datasets are invaluable for the identification of potentially contaminated land as part of the 1995 Environment Act. The challenge:Part IIa of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 makes local authorities responsible for the identification of historically contaminated land, which poses a threat to human ...
Local soil contamination, mainly associated with industrial facilities (both in operation and after closure), uncontrolled (industrial and/or municipal) waste landfills, mining and diffused leaching underground storage tanks and pipelines, is an actual and relevant environmental priority in Europe. Different approaches have been applied in the European countries during the past ...
The pattern of ground contamination across a site depends on the historical pattern of contaminant releases at the surface and the redistribution and the fate of contaminants below the surface. Using these concepts a new site assessment approach (assessment modelling) is proposed based on the development of three ...
The off-base portion of the TCE plume at Norton AFB has gained national attention because it threatens 26 municipal wells that provide a major percentage of the domestic water supply for the City of Riverside. Because of the contamination, which resulted from the spillage of TCE during aircraft maintenance activities from 1942 to 1966, Norton AFB has been named a National ...
Fearful residents of houses on land potentially contaminated with fuel oil in North Holmwood, Surrey are concerned about the impact of past industrial land use on their property prices. The extent of contamination has varied from one house to another but clearly demonstrates the importance of knowing what activities were carried out before the ...
Untitled Document The attention of EPA and state environmental agencies to assessing the vapor intrusion pathway at potentially contaminated sites is growing. On March 5, 2005, EPA discussed its pending update of its draft Vapor Intrusion Guidance (Nov 2002) at the Association for Environmental Health and Sciences (AEHS) ...
ByAECOM
However the network is insufficient to resolve the spatial and temporal variation in contaminant transport behaviour necessary to evaluate NA. This site model was updated with an analysis of the structural geology of the Chalk using published literature, which identified the regional structural trends and their potential influence on ...
Anyone who buys property that is actually or potentially contaminated should consider it as a risk management option, and they should do so very early in the brownfield transaction process. Two types of insurance policies are now available that provide meaningful and inexpensive coverage to sites that are actually or potentially ...