oily water remediation

What are the effects of a freshwater oil spill?

January 20, 2012

The footage of the crusie ship the Costa Concordia lying on it’s side in the clear blue waters off the west coast of Italy has once again raised the spectre of a major fuel oil spill into a maritime preserve.  Fortunately the seas have been calm and the salvage engineers appear confident that they can empty the on board [...]

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Diesel spill!

October 21, 2011

One evening last summer we were called out to a major incident where diesel had entered into a burn (Stream for those non Scots reading this…!).  Approx 1.5 km of water course was affected. By eleven at night we had deployed booms, absorbants and missed yoga…! ‘So what’ I hear you cry…is this just another ‘LOOK [...]

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Groundwater Treatment

March 17, 2011

Groundwater treatment is in general an approach where identified contaminants are removed from the water by what is commonly known in the remediation contracting business as a ‘pump & treat’ process.  To explain, we ‘pump’ the water from source through a ‘treat’ment system, simple. I’d be a happier man if it is as easy as it sounds… although the boss might [...]

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