Subject:  Remediation Market News:

 

Here are the headlines in the May 2006 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/yr.  Click here for more information on this service:  http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/remediation.html .

SITE REMEDIATION AND
EMERGENCY RESPONSE NEWSLETTER

May   2006    No. 93

MARKET NEWS

·         Overview of Contamination Caused by Katrina, Lessons for Future Catastrophes

·         EPA Announces 70 Million Dollars in Brownfields Grants

 

SPOLTLIGHT ON TECHNOLOGIES

·         Microbes Found to Immobilize Uranium in Groundwater at DOE Site

 

AROUND THE WORLD

·         Canada – PCE-Contaminated Groundwater Found at Vancouver Site

·         China – Plan to Treat Contaminated Water Resources by 2010

·         Czech Republic – Market for Soil, Groundwater Remediation Expanding

·         India – Hazardous Waste Management Technologies, Services Market Growing

·         Ireland – Old MGP in Waterside to Be Cleaned Up

·         Russia – Amur River Thaws, Releasing More Toxins from China’s Chemical Spill

·         South Africa – AECI Site Producing Fertilizers, Explosives to Be Remediated

·         UK – VSD Selected to Remediate Former Coke Works Site

·         UK – Landfill in Horncastle, Lincolnshire Leaching Contaminants, Needs Cleanup

 

INDUSTRY NEWS

·         Buyout Plan for Residents of Two Communities at Tar Creek Superfund Site

·         EPA Proposes Criteria for Beneficial Uses of Chat from Tri-State Mining Area

·         30 Million Dollar Cleanup of Old Smelter Site on Tacoma Waterfront Envisaged

·         Illinois Launches Initiative to Clean Up Brownfields Sites Along Waterfronts

·         Developers Increasingly Interested in Cleaning Up, Redeveloping Old Landfills

·         EPA Dependent on PRPs for Site Assessments

·         ENSR Manual on SVE Off-Gas Treatment Technologies Now Available

·         Michigan State Receives Superfund Grant to Study Dioxins, PCBs in Soils

·         Nuclear Industry to Monitor Leaks of Radioactive Tritium from Power Plants

·         Pennsylvania Steelworks Site Receives 7.5 Million Dollars for Cleanup

 

COMPANY NEWS

·         Arcadis to Complete Cleanup at Aircraft Manufacturing Site in Colorado

·         General Environmental Management Wins Defense Logistics Contract

·         Sonic Non-Thermal Technology Destroys PCBs from Sydney Tar Ponds in Studies

 

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Bob McIlvaine

rmcilvaine@mcilvainecompany.com