SITE REMEDIATION AND
EMERGENCY RESPONSE NEWSLETTER

July 2011

No. 154

Table of Contents

MARKET NEWS

§  Fukushima Cleanup May Take Up to 100 Years

§  Call for Use of Ground Penetrating Technology to Locate Buried Drums of Contaminants at El Toro Marine Corps Base in California

AROUND THE WORLD

§  Canada –Arsenic Trioxide Stored at Giant Mine in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories Vulnerable to Water Intrusion

§  India – Polluted Hotspots Dot Country

§  Nigeria – Pipeline Damaged by Vandalism, Oil Contaminates Aquifer

INDUSTRY NEWS

§  Chemical Lagoons at American Cyanamid Superfund Site in Bridgewater, CT Leak Benzene into Raritan River; EPA Orders Remediation

§  2011 Clarke Prize of NWRI for Research on Membranes and Nanotechnologies, Improving Water Quality

COMPANY NEWS

§  B&W Subsidiary and Two Partners Win $417 Million Waste Management Contract at Idaho National Laboratory

§  TRC and LVI Environmental Services Complete Remediation of Humboldt Bay Generating Station Site in California