Subject: remediation projects FROM HONG KONG TO KAZAKHSTAN

 

Here are the headlines to our April 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

April 2005
No. 80

MARKET NEWS

·         EPA Estimates Cleanup Costs at Current and Future Non-Federal Superfund Sites

·         Cost to Clean Up Contaminated Sites of Civilian Federal Agencies

·         $60 Million Cleanup, If Toxic Waste Site Selected for NFL Stadium in Carson, CA

·         Army Expected to Remediate Engine Plant in CT, Before New Base Closings

SPOTLIGHT ON TECHNOLOGIES

·         Microbial DNA Used to Diagnose Health of All Types of Environments

AROUND THE WORLD

·         Hong Kong – Electronic Waste from Abroad Contaminates Soil with Lead

·         Ireland – Cleanup of Sellafield Nuclear Plant May Not Be Completed Until 2150

·         Kazakhstan – Nuclear Waste Imports Banned; Activist Wins Goldman Award

·         UK – Government Eases Mobile-Plant Licensing to Speed Brownfields Cleanup

INDUSTRY NEWS

·         Delaware Bill Proposes to Lower Limit of Arsenic in Soil from 23 ppm to 11 ppm

·         Kerr-McGee to Pay $74 Million to Clean Up Radioactive Wastes in West Chicago

·         EPA Finds “Triad Approach” to Cleanup Saves Time and Money

·         Brownfield Cleanups in Vermont Lack Funding; UST Sites Receive Support

·         Indian Tribe in North Dakota Urges USACE to Clean Up Old Bombing Range

·         $45 Million Cleanup of Cement Kiln Dust Required Along Lake Michigan Shoreline

·         Massachusetts Brownfield Cleanup Fund Nearly Depleted, But Help Is on Way

·         Cherokee’s Meadowlands Golf Project in New Jersey Receives Public, Private Aid

COMPANY NEWS

·         Adventus Remediates PCP-Contaminated Soil at Resin Manufacturing Site

·         Aerotech P&K Licenses Regenesis’ Test for Bacteria that Biodegrade Solvents

·         HEPACO Purchases IMS Environmental Services

·         New UK Site Remediation Company Specializes in Brownfields

·         ENVIRON to Remediate British Telecommunications Sites

 

Bob McIlvaine

847-784-0012

rmcilvaine@mcilvainecompany.com