SITE REMEDIATION AND
EMERGENCY RESPONSE NEWSLETTER
October 2012
No. 169
Table of Contents
MARKET NEWS
- National
Science Foundation Funding Opportunity Includes Environmental Technologies
- Former
EPA Administrator Urges Measures to Reduce Risk of Terrorist Attacks on
Chemical Plants
SPOTLIGHT ON
TECHNOLOGIES
- Activated
Carbon Amendments for In Situ Stabilization of Contaminated Sediments
–Technology Now Ready for Use
- DoD on
Schedule to Announce Environmental Research Funding Opportunities
AROUND THE
WORLD
- Canada –
Ontario Environment Ministry to Pay for Remediation of Northstar Aerospace
Site over Long Term
- Canada –
$6.5 Million Contract Awarded for Sheet Pile Wall
at Esquimalt Graving Dock Sediment Remediation Project
- China –
Mining by Jiangxi Copper Company
Contaminates Rivers in Jiangxi Province
- Global –
Need to Clean Up Uranium Mill Tailings
INDUSTRY
NEWS
- Old
Minneapolis Industrial Site Requires $2.5 Million Cleanup to House New Brewery
- Ten
Thousand Contaminated Sites Await Cleanup in Massachusetts, More Than One
Thousand New Ones Discovered Annually
- Solvent
Saver Superfund Site in Lincklaen, New York Requires $10 Million Cleanup
- Cleanup
of Diamond Alkali Superfund Site on Passaic River in NJ Could Cost $3 Billion
COMPANY NEWS
- Team of
RMA-Insight, Versar, Environmental Chemical Corp. Wins Contract to Clean Up
Five Air Force Bases in Western U.S.
- Tetra
Tech Wins $24 Million Contract for Services to EPA Brownfields Program