Manufactured Gas Plant Sites (MGP) produced gas for lighting and heating as well as by products which were used as fuel or feedstocks for the production of chemicals. Though MGP facilities have long been decommissioned, the sites upon which they stood remain as a contamination legacy. [...]
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Contaminated site remediation can at a glance appear to be daunting. The processes may seem complex and the language that professionals use indecipherable. The good news is that the key processes that are required to remediate a site are standard and once you pick up a few key terms professional language is not the alien language that it initially seems. The following processes are used in the remediation of a contaminated site: Underground Storage Tanks (USTs) are often found associated with industrial processes. They often contain diesel, unleaded petrol, leaded petrol, heating oil, kerosine, aviation fuel and waste [...] Capping a contaminated site is a relatively low budget means of containing the contaminants onsite. Capping materials can be both natural and synthetic and the complexity of the systems that they are used are dependent upon numerous [...] Land which has been contaminated is a land site that could possibly adversely affect people and/or the environment. Increasingly, sites noted as contaminated could have important planning, legislative and/or monetary inferences. Because of the effects of on land [...] Land deemed contaminated is land area that may detrimentally effect human health and environmental health. Increasingly, those sites labelled as contaminated could also present important land planning, legislative and/or economic repercussions. Due to the direct and indirect effects on land [...] Contamination affects every country in the world. Contamination occurs in both soils and water at sites where, or close to where, industrial activities occured. These include former factories and tannaries, fuel dumps and chemical stores, service stations, munitions plants, farm livestock dips, timber treatment plants, oil and chemical refineries, landfills and the sediments of rivers etc where waste has in the past been piped for [...] Remediating a contaminated site requires numerous unique issues. One of these is the impact of a remote or iscolated site on the scheduling and completion of site [...] Cement stabilisation is a remedial treatment technology used for contaminated soils. It results in the encapsulation of contaminants, an increase in compressive strength and a decrease in the permeability of contaminated [...] |
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