Soil Remediation

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The Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation (HDOT) is taking steps to address per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) impacted soil in the vicinity of the Kahului Airport (OGG).

Modeling the movement of PFAS through the unsaturated zone has traditionally required a lot of guesswork and immense computational power. New work aims to change this.

This letter of concurrence will start the process in the Federal Register, with a public comment period coming sometime in the spring.

Today, the PCE Carriage Cleaners Site in Bellevue, Nebraska, has been added to the Superfund National Priorities List.

Army Corps of Engineers awarded the $27.6 million contract to Brice Engineering on Nov. 10. 

A University of Maryland researcher and colleagues found that the fungus Metarhizium robertsii removes mercury from the soil around plant roots.

Research and regulatory attention to PFAS has grown dramatically in recent years, yet data about PFAS-contaminated sites are incomplete. Researchers recently proposed a “presumptive contamination” model to fill the gap.

Scientists at Staffordshire University are driving research to understand the scale of plastic pollution in agricultural soils and its impact around the world.

The city of Decatur, IL has included planting acres of industrial hemp for soil remediation and erosion control as part of its water quality improvement plan. 

BWR can now proceed with the soil remediation as recommended by Pinchin and authorized by MECP.