soil treatment

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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The 12 remediation days of Christmas

December 19, 2011

On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me… A grossly contaminated site. On the Second day of Christmas, my true love gave to me… A planning condition for my grossly contaminated site. On the third day of Christmas, my true love gave to me… A comprehensive Phase 1 report, for the [...]

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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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Soil Treatment

March 8, 2011

A fairly ambiguous statement, Soil Treatment, yet again in the contaminated land remediation world we have tried to claim it for our own (Please don’t tell the farmers and gardeners out there). Contaminated soil treatment has 2 main applications, in-situ and ex-situ, the target being to reduce / remove contaminants in order to either facilitate safe re-use on [...]

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