soil remediation

Soil Remediation Guide: Your free eBook!

February 6, 2012

   A guide for the uninitiated!  Download your free copy here. If you’re dealing with contaminated land then this guide will help you understand where to start and which direction you may want to head in the future.  The soil remediation field has evolved rapidly over the last decade, resulting in what can appear to be a complicated system.  [...]

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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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Marrying remedial solutions to contamination problems

October 4, 2011

Getting the right remedial solution to match your contamination needs can be akin to finding your perfect partner in life.   Sometimes it all works out great and other times the results just don’t quite meet your expectations. Jumping in both feet first can often lead to problems and greater expenditure down the line.  But delaying could cost [...]

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Is a fixed cost remediation scheme good value?

September 9, 2011

We are constantly being asked to provide a fixed cost for remediation schemes but is this good value for the client…? It is very normal for us mere remediation contractors to have had no involvement with the site investigation stage of a sites redevelopment.  For some reason our experience is not called upon until the client needs [...]

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Is this really the cost of soil remediation?

August 19, 2011

Following on from Sam’s recent blog on how much does soil remediation cost I thought you might be interested to see how a reporter on mortgage issues, clearly with limited knowledge, is managing to scare potential home owners from buying properties developed on brownfield sites.  It is stated that…”Some 3% of all properties in the [...]

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Asbestos Soil Remediation

August 17, 2011

What can you do with your asbestos contaminated soil? I hope you’ve got over the shock of finding you have a problem with asbestos contaminated soils.  Dealing with asbestos is a tricky business, firstly you must find out the asbestos content of the soil, and then the nature of the asbestos (fibrous would be expensive [...]

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Petrol Station Remediation

July 14, 2011

These small and often well situated plots have been found to be wise investments for re-development. Petrol stations can be contaminated with hydrocarbons which have leaked from pipes and tanks found beneath petrol station forecorts. Soil remediation and groundwater remediation techniques can be applied to treat the soil and/or water in-situ.  Hydrocarbon treatment technologies are tried and tested and the technology [...]

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How much does Soil Remediation cost?

June 29, 2011

I’m sure a mathematician could put a good formula together based on  the nature and concentration of the contaminants of concern, the volume of material and the location of the site.  However, for that you already need to have a lot of the attributing information…such as ground water implications, target levels, clients time constraints and available [...]

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