Subject: lots of remediation projects

Here are the headlines to our March Site Remediation and Emergency Response newsletter.  Past issues for the last four years are searchable online.  You can receive this newsletter for the next 12 months plus have access to past issues for just $270.  Click here for more details and the order form:  http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/remediation.html .

SITE REMEDIATION AND
EMERGENCY RESPONSE NEWSLETTER

March 2005
No. 79

MARKET NEWS

·         Four Cities in New York Receive Funds for Remediation of Brownfields

·         Cleanup of Abandoned Hard Rock Mining Sites Proceeds at Glacial Pace

 SPOTLIGHT ON TECHNOLOGIES

·         Hybrid Nanoparticles of Gold and Palladium Most Effective in Treating TCE

·         Phytoremediation Enters New Stage: Plants that Produce Biosurfactants

 AROUND THE WORLD

·         Armenia – Stocks of Rocket Fuel Components to Be Eliminated

·         Australia – New Remediation Research Center to Combat Soil, Water Pollution

·         Australia – Massive Cleanup Needed at Old Smelting, Superphosphate Site

·         Kazakhstan – Contamination Remains at Vast Soviet Nuclear Test Site

·         Israel – Report Documents Pollution from Military Bases

INDUSTRY NEWS

·         Perchlorate Contamination May Be More Prevalent Than Originally Thought

·         New Council at Rice University to Study Potential Risks of Nanotechnology

·         Cleanup at Kin-Buc Landfill Superfund Site in New Jersey to Continue 20 Years

·         Settlement Reached on Cleaning up Bayonne, New Jersey Superfund Site

·         USGS Study Finds Chemicals in Remote Water Sources in Colorado

·         Los Alamos Lab to Undergo Fence-to-Fence Cleanup

COMPANY NEWS

·         Ecology & Environment Wins Contract to Assess Dry Cleaner Sites in Texas

·         ARCADIS Guarantees Remediation of Polish Automobile Production Site

·         Versar Wins $6.4 Million Contract for Site Remediation in Hawaii

·         CH2M Hill, Washington Group to Head $2.9 Billion Cleanup of Idaho Lab Site

·         Electro-Petroleum to Market Lynntech Remediation Technologies

·         Weston Buys Contaminated Site from Corning to Remediate and Redevelop

·         AMEC Acquires Environmental Advice Centre of the UK

·         Compass Environmental Acquires Williams Environmental Services

·         ENSR Wins $50 Million GSA Contract for Environmental Work Worldwide

Bob McIlvaine

847-784-0012

rmcilvaine@mcilvainecompany.com