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What is Soil Remediation?

January 23, 2012

   It does depend on who you ask, as that’s me then I’ll tell you what it means to an environmental remediation contractor. Soil remediation is broadly speaking solving a problem you have with a soil.  Problems can be structural and/or environmental, solutions exist which conquor both.  Environmental problems are generally caused by contaminants, substances in the [...]

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Environmental Remediation Definitions

November 14, 2011

  The dreaded lingo and acronyms which can make a report confusing.  We’ve put together a few of the most frequently used terms in the remediation industry below.  We hope they’re helpful.  We’ll update this regularly so feel free to add suggestions in the comments section and we’ll get back to you asap.  Alternately send a [...]

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Develop a green belt or brownfield site…?

June 29, 2011

Clean or contaminated site…which would you choose…? With developers looking for asurity of budgets and the remediation cost percieved as being the big unknown what chance do contaminated sites have of being developed in the present economic market.   Well I reckon they have just a good a chance as green sites do…I would, I’m a remediation expert…!   [...]

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Keyhole Surgery

June 17, 2011

Similar to insitu remediation…? Further to Sam’s recent blog you’ll be pleased to know that his recent keyhole surgery went well and he’s now on his way to a full recovery. So why am I writing about this…?  Well keyhole surgery is very similar to insitu treatment techniques, trust me on this…!   You analyse where the problem [...]

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Clean-up Contamination While Site Development Continues

May 18, 2011

Don’t let contaminated soil or groundwater stop/delay your site development program. Did you know you can remediate contaminants in the ground and while you are developing a site?  It is possible to treat a variety of organic contaminants in-situ, i.e. while they are still in the ground. In-situ remediation can involve physical removal (e.g. vapour extraction, groundwater [...]

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Get the most out of your Remediation Contractor!

April 6, 2011

Do you know how to get the most out of your remediation contractor?  If you have land, or water for that matter, which you strongly suspect is contaminated, we would recommend getting a remediation contractor involved before any investigations have been planned or carried out. We see 100′s of reports a year from many different consultants, passed [...]

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