Remediation Market News For Feb. 09

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SITE REMEDIATION AND
EMERGENCY RESPONSE NEWSLETTER

February 2009
No. 125

Table of Contents

MARKET NEWS

·         Federal Stimulus Package Gives DOE $6 Billion to Clean Up Facilities

• Staten Island Officials Seek Federal Stimulus Funds to Help Clean Up Brookfield Landfill at Cost of $240 Million

SPOTLIGHT ON TECHNOLOGIES 

• Funding for Site Characterization and Remediation Projects

AROUND THE WORLD

• UK – £28 Million Remediation Required for Maidenhead Housing Development Plan

INDUSTRY NEWS

·         Study Finds Excavation of Nuclear Waste at West Valley Site in NY Poses Less Risk, Costs Less than Burial on Site over Next 1000 Years

·         Cleaning up Ash Spill Could Cost Between $525 Million and $825 Million

·         K East Basin at Hanford Being Demolished to Allow Access to Underlying Radioactive-Contaminated Soil

·         Former Buffalo Forge Site Requires Extensive Remediation

·         Indiana Reports Approximately 200 New Leaks and Spills from Underground Fuel Storage Tanks Yearly

·         Former Scotia Navy Supply Depot in Glenville, NY to Be Cleaned Up, Transferred to Private Sector

·         Remedial Investigation Completed at Velsicol Superfund Site in St. Louis, Cleanup Plan to Follow

·         PPG Industries to Clean Up Chromium Contamination in Jersey City and 13 Other Sites

·         Texas Adds Old Pearland Tank Farm Site with Contaminated Groundwater to its State Superfund List

·         State Estimate of $52 Million Needed to Clean Up Asarco Smelter in El Paso, TX Said to Be Far too Low

·         3M Dump Site in Woodbury, MN to Be Cleaned Up

COMPANY NEWS

·         Calgon Carbon Will Use GAC and Ion Exchange to Treat Pasadena’s Contaminated Groundwater

·         ARCADIS Subsidiary LFR to Help Remediate Vancouver Wharves Facility during Its Expansion and Upgrade

·         Partner Engineering Acquires Environmental Site Assessment Practice of US-Reports, Inc.

·         Startech Expands Business with Distributorship in the Balkans, Austria

·         Phase Separation Solutions of Canada Expands Treatment of PCB-Contaminated Soil 

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Bob McIlvaine

rmcilvaine@mcilvainecompany.com