SITE REMEDIATION AND
EMERGENCY RESPONSE NEWSLETTER
December 2012
No. 171
Table of Contents
MARKET NEWS
Cleanup of Contaminated Groundwater Sites in U.S. to Cost Up to $127
Billion
Environmental Impact of Hurricane Sandy
SPOTLIGHT ON TECHNOLOGIES
SERDP Award for Developing Tools to Define
Source Zone Architecture, Key to DNAPL Remediation
Sodium Persulfate-based In Situ Chemical Oxidation Reagent
Introduced by Regenesis
AROUND THE WORLD
Australia – Asbestos Mine Remediation Delayed for Sake of Bats
Canada – Teck Metals Smelter Contaminates Groundwater at Trail Smelter;
Teck Admits Contaminating Columbia River in Washington State, Cleanup to Cost
Up to $1 Billion
China – Chromium Slag from Luliang Peace Technology Company Dumped Along
River in Yunnan
INDUSTRY NEWS
Discarded Military Munitions, Unexploded Ordnance Dumped off U.S. Coasts
Study Finds Coal Ash Ponds of Duke Energy Polluting Waters Downstream of
Power Plants
COMPANY NEWS
ESI Enviro LLC
Seeks Campbell,
Ohio Sitefor Water Treatment Plant to Remediate, Recycle Fracking
Fluid