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Polypropylene Tubes for Pipeline Foundations and Beach Erosion Control
We continue to find amazing uses for polypropylene tubes and bags. In this case, PEMEX oil company in Mexico used large poly tubes (referred to as Geotextile Tubes or GT in the original article) at one of their oil facilities. One part of the project involved filling 7.8m circumference poly tubes to support oil pipelines, whose bases were eroding away. The tubes were pumped full of sand using “4-in. discharge-diameter slurry pumps with volume discharge rates up to 40-50m3/hr with 10–30% of solids.” The unique qualities of poly tubes helped create a successful project. As the tubes filled with sand, they naturally conformed to the irregular surface and varying height below the pipe.
The second part of the project is equally interesting. To prevent future beach
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Stream restoration designed to mitigate bank erosion
MERCERSBURG, Pa. – A stream restoration project under way this week in Peters Township, Pa., is designed to mitigate bank erosion and create a habitat that could support trout.
Contractors from Excavating Services of Chambersburg, Pa., started working at the farm off Findley Road on Tuesday. They’re installing stone and log deflectors to preserve 1,500 feet of the stream.
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UPDATE: EURE Fires, 8.26.10. RADIATION from Russian fires; Portugal loss; Spain Arson
RUSSIA: they are reporting fires under control but the excerpt from the first URL below shows thousands of acres are still burning. Also in this article is the comment that fifty-two people have died, official count from fires and smoke, with "700 deaths/day" in the capitol of Russia as a combined effort of high heat and effect of the fires.
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Midwest is the Only Dust-Control and Soil Stabilization Company to Make Inc's List of the Top Privately-Owned Environmental Services Companies, Part of the Inc 5000
Company Working Daily in Laboratory and in Field with Customers to Develop More Stringent Testing Protocols and Add to Line of Products that Are Proven Environmentally Safe
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Backfill error by EPA put asbestos-tainted soil in Libby area yards
August 30th, 2010 - As part of a cleanup of asbestos contamination, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) inadvertently backfilled several properties near Libby, Montana, with soil that still contained some asbestos.
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Fears garden compost could be contaminated
GARDENS are at risk of contamination from low-level radioactive waste through compost taken from a landfill site, according to an environment group.
Part of the site where the waste is dumped is also used for the extraction of compost which is sold to vegetable and flower growers.
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GVW brownfields job training program
The GVW Brownfields Job Training Program will open the doors of opportunity. Dozens of people will have new jobs and a better future. The training is all about going green and revitalizing the Graniteville, Vaucluse and Warrenville area. The best part is that all the training is free.
Edward Davis IV says, "it would be better if they do something here...so everyone won't be struggling." Edward is struggling financially, but the program could change things for him. Those who get accepted will get training at Aiken Tech. There will be four different cycles with 16 students in each--the first starting this October. The goal is to have people get on-hands training. Aiken Tech will teach students how to test air, water, and soil for pollutants and to deal with mold, lead and asbestos.They'll also be certified to do a number of "green jobs." The Warren Mill will be the first hands-on training and students will learn how to remove asbestos.
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Biodiversity – a bigger threat than climate change – Does anyone care?
May 22, 2010 – Only two of the world's largest 100 companies have identified biodiversity and ecosystem loss as a strategic issue according to analysis from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP into corporate reporting on biodiversity and ecosystem impact and dependency.
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Micro–plane can do autonomous surveys
PARIS, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- An inexpensive unmanned aircraft system developed with the European Space Agency can provide quick monitoring of land areas or disaster zones, researchers say.
German company MAVinci has developed
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A flood of asbestos: How much should residents worry?
Even before the health regulators in white moon suits arrived to rake their yards, residents along the Sumas River were arguing over how much to fret about contamination.
It began with the floods, in January 2009. When swollen waters spread across farmers' fields and into basements, the muddy torrent deposited something disturbing: extraordinarily high concentrations of cancer-causing asbestos.
Emergency health warnings went out, and one anxious family left town, abandoning
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Future asbestos millstone
04/May/2010
Sharon Cooke, Councillor, Hamersley Ward, City of Stirling
Comments:
I AM at a loss to understand how developers can disturb asbestos in our residential suburb of Gwelup.
If North Beach Investments knew of the machinery error in 2004 and resultant soil contamination with asbestos-containing material, why weren’t the site workers and the public made aware?
The Erindale Grove subdivision site report states that
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EPA outlines phase two of BoRit remedial investigation
The Environmental Protection Agency provided an overview of plans for the second phase of its remedial investigation of the BoRit asbestos site at the Community Advisory Group's Sept. 1 meeting.
The BoRit site, located in Ambler Borough, Upper Dublin and Whitpain townships between Butler Avenue, North Maple Street and the Wissahickon Creek, was placed on the EPA's Superfund National Priorities List in April 2009. The EPA has started a remedial investigation of the site, which will analyze the nature and extent of the waste, along with the risk to ecological and human health.
The results of the remedial investigation will be the basis
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EPPING FOREST: Asbestos fly–tip is only latest dump in forest
DEADLY asbestos dumped at the heart of Epping Forest has prompted the City of London Corporation to speak out over rampant fly–tipping.
The sheets of corrugated asbestos found at the side of a road near the Wake Arms roundabout in Epping this week are only the latest in a long-line of objects dumped in the forest this year.
Forest services manager Keith French said there had already been 565 fly-tips in the forest so far this year in what is an escalating problem.
He said: “It's not unusual for all sort of hazardous waste to be dumped. Asbestos is one of the things that quite regularly gets dumped.
"Sometimes you get substances in drums and you've no idea what they are. We have to bring in specialist companies to deal with it. In some case were it seeps into the ground you have to take the soil away and it can kill the environment.
“We also get
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Erosion–Control Project
The river has been severely eroding into the Miskowic property for years, taking away soil, fencing and trees.
Now, a major shoreline restoration, erosion-control project has been nearly completed on the Miskowic property and it shows promise in checking the erosion, according to Mille Lacs County Soil and Water Conservation District conservation technician Lynn Carter.
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