Remediation - Remediation Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Remediation 1.1 Remediation Standards 1.2 Site Assessment 1.3 Funding Remediation 1.4 Remediation Technologies 1.5 Community Consultation and Information 1.6 Incremental Health Risk 1.7 Dust, Noise, Odour, Groundwater, Sewer, Air, Waterways 1.8 Transport, Hazop, Waste, Emergency, Safety Induction 1.9 Impacts of Funding Remediation by Higher Use Rezoning 2 Example of a Major Contamination, Rezoning, Remediation & Redevelopment Project involving Land and Sediments and a Mix of Final Uses including Open Sspace, High and Low Rise Apartments, Retail Centre and Office Space 3 External Links 3.10 Remediation Standards, PRG's 3.11 Remediation Technologies 3.12 Legislation about remediation 3.13 Environmental Groups with Information 3.14 Environmental Protection Agencies 3.15 Major Remediation Projects Remediation Remediation is a term used to describe the removal of pollution or.
Year 2000 problem - similar date logic, might fail and cause utilities and other crucial infrastructure to fail. In the years prior to 2000, some corporations and governments, when they did testing to determine the extent of the potential impact, reported that some of their critical systems really would need significant repairs or risk serious breakdowns. Throughout 1997 and 1998, there were news reports about major corporations and industries that had made uncertain estimates as to their preparedness. The vagueness of these reports, and the apparent uncertainty regarding what sort of breakdowns were possible--and the fact that literally hundreds of billions of dollars were reportedly spent in remediation efforts--were a major part of the reason for the public fear. Special committees were set up by governments to monitor remedial work and contingency planning, particularly by.
Halotolerance - physiology, ecology, and genetics. An understanding of halotolerance can be applicable to areas such as arid-zone agriculture, xeriscaping, aquaculture (of fish or algae), bioproduction of desirable compounds (such as phycobilins or carotenoids) using seawater to support growth, or remediation of salt-affected soils. In addition, many environmental stressors involve or induce osmotic changes, so knowledge gained about halotolerance can also be relevant to understanding tolerance to extremes in moisture or temperature. Goals of studying halotolerance include increasing the agricultural productivity of lands affected by soil salination or where only saline water is available. Conventional agricultural species could be made more halotolerant by gene transfer from naturally halotolerant species (by conventional breeding or genetic engineering) or by applying treatments developed from an understanding of the mechanisms of halotolerance. In addition, naturally halotolerant plants.
Hot zone - from the Philippines. Hot zone also refers to an area that is considered to be dangerous due to biological, chemical, or nuclear contamination. For example, the area in which remediation or containment work during a hazardous materials incident is considered the hot zone, for which individuals must be trained and prepared to enter and leave through specific corridors. The "hot zone" also refers to the area in which dangerous biological organisms are handled, such as the Biosafety Level 4 (BSL4) area of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention..
Geologist - planning, archaeology, environmental studies, and other fields. Professional geologists work for a wide range of government agencies, private firms, and non-profit and academic institutions. Local, state, and national governments hire geologists to help plan and evaluate excavations, construction sites, environmental remediation projects, and natural disaster preparedness, as well as to investigate natural resources. Petroleum and mining companies and large-scale land developers need geologists' skills to help them locate oil and minerals, adapt to local features such as karst deposits or the risk of earthquakes, and comply with environmental regulations. Geologists in academia usually hold an advanced degree in a specialized area within the discipline. See also: List of geologists.
Uneconomic growth - forward not backward. This issue has been extant since the very beginnings of the theory of uneconomic growth: As part of the analysis that led to the creation of human development theory out of the older fields of welfare economics and ecological economics, in the 1990s, it was claimed that well-being in all developed nations peaked in the period 1979-1982, and had been declining (although GNP and GDP had been growing) since. Thus some growth was assumed to be ultimately 'uneconomic', that is, damaging well-being rather than enhancing it. But, of course, the damage had already happened, and many policies were put in place in the 1980s and 1990s to promote growth as such, not improve well-being, which according to the "trickle-down" theory of economic management, was supposed to improve proportionate.
Environmental law - be threatened or endangered by human activity. The Clean Water and Clean Air Acts regulate (through a variety of methods) industrial, waste disposal, and other human activities that result in contamination of the air and water. Superfund is the common name for a set of laws that establishes a multi-billion dollar fund to pay for remediation of toxic waste sites left by companies that are unwilling or unable to pay. The National Environmental Policy Act requires the federal government to consider environmental impact before taking any significant action, such as building a highway. There are many more environmental laws in the United States, both at the federal and state levels. See also: admiralty environmental agreements environmental crimes environmental justice fisheries and ocean law international environmental law natural resources law property rights.
Derelict soil - and which is currently unused. It may usually be brought back to use only after soil remediation. See also Industrial ecology, green belt.
Therapy - Therapy Therapy or treatment is the act of remediation of a health problem, after the diagnosis. Different types of therapy include drug therapy, where drugs are used to treat an issue, and psychotherapy, where combinations of drugs and communications are used to treat a mental health issue. Common types of therapy include: Occupational therapy recreational therapy speech therapy physical therapy (physiotherapy) There is also a band named Therapy..
Calcium peroxide - used as fertilizing rich with oxygen, for presowing treatment of rice seed, etc. Calcium peroxide has been increasingly used in aquaculture to oxygenate and disinfect water. Besides, calcium peroxide may be used in poultry-raising and cattle-breeding, precious metal production and bakery industry. Typical applications: soil remediation, groundwater remediation, site remediation, in situ bioremediation (or bio remediation and biological remediation), aquaculture bioremediation, rice seed coating, oxygen fertilizer..
Chornobyl - According to reports from Soviet scientists at the First International Conference on the Biological and Radiological Aspects of the Chornobyl Accident (September 1990), fallout levels in the 10-kilometer zone around the plant were as high as 130,000 curies per square kilometer. The so-called "red forest" of pine trees killed by heavy radioactive fallout lies within the 10-kilometer zone. Chornobyl was a secret disaster at first. The initial evidence that a major nuclear accident had occurred came not from Soviet sources, but from Sweden, where on April 27 workers at a nuclear power plant were found to have radioactive particles on their clothes. It was Sweden's search for the source of radioactivity, after they had determined there was no leak at the Swedish plant, that led to the first hint of a.
Safe trade - natural wild biodiversity. It seeks to prevent ecological disasters caused by imported organisms or untested genetic technologies, and to augment and increase local natural capital by encouraging, rather than imported organisms and heavy use of pesticides, soil remediation, precision agriculture, and local consumption of the native species. An important achievement of safe trade advocacy is the Biosafety Protocol agreed in Montreal in January 2000. Although it relied on the weaker legal principle of Informed Consent and not the much stronger Precautionary Principle language sought by advocates, the protocol was considered by most to be a victory that could enhance both biosafety and biosecurity. Other safe trade reforms seek to advance sustainability by reducing reliance on energy subsidies and oil-based transport, and (indirectly) improves equity in economic affairs - that is, it.
São Tomé - chief exports are cocoa, coffee, copra, and palm products. There is also a fishing industry. Large reserves of oil are in the ocean between Nigeria and São Tomé. The environmental remediation holding company was formed in 1997 to address the economic potential and then was transferred to the Chrome Energy Company, which is staffed by Nigerians and has offices in Texas. The Exxon company has also developed interest and the U.S. Navy is putting a port there. Drilling is to begin in 2004..
Shangyuchem - oxygen release chemicals, detergent raw materials, soil and groundwater biological remediation chemicals, value-added specialty chemicals, custom manufactures, and contract packaging services. Main products includes sodium percarbonate, sodium perborate monohydrate, calcium peroxide, magnesium peroxide, potassium monopersulfate, zinc peroxide, urea hydrogen peroxide, thiourea dioxide, TAED (tetra acetyl ethylene diamine), synthetic magnesium silicate adsorbent. The company is located in Zhejiang province, China. See also: List of Chinese companies.
Waste management - had not been taking into account at all in the planning. Although they were later promised jobs as trash collectors at minimum wage, a third of what they had been making as entrepreneurs with none of the additional social opportunity, they had to work through the Italian firm that had the collection contract to eventually negotiate access to all recyclables at the dump site - but as of September 2003 this had not yet been acted on. Thus, one must conclude that even when there is a burgeoning industry that is meeting important social and developmental goals like educating girls, employing people and cleaning up waste that the government simply is not managing, governments can ignore this in favour of high-tech solutions - thus these industries are not safe, and the.
Soil - this kind receive little benefit from winter ploughing, unless so far as their surface is thereby presented to the frost, which mellows and reduces them in a manner infinitely superior to what could be accomplished by all the operations of man. Still they are not cleaned or made free of weeds by winter ploughing; and therefore this operation can only be considered as a good means for producing a seed-bed, in which the seeds of the future crop may be safely deposited. Hence the necessity of cleansing clay soils during the summer months, and of having always a large part of every clay farm under summer fallow. All clayey soils require great industry and care, as well as a considerable portion of knowledge in dressing or management to keep them in.
Soils retrogression and degradation - to streaming and ground loss. Agriculture also accelerates soil erosion (increase of field size, correlated to hedges and ditches removal). Meadows are in regression to the profit of plowed lands. Spring cultures (sunflower, corn, beet) surfaces are increasing and leave the ground naked in winter. Sloping grounds are gradually colonized by vine. Lastly, use of herbicides leaves the ground naked between each crop. New cultural practices, such as mechanization also increases the risks of erosion. Fertilization by mineral manures rather than organic manure gradually destructure the soil. Many scientists observed a gradual decrease of soil organic matter content in soils, as well as a decrease of soil biological activity (in particular, in relation to chemical uses). Lastly, deforestation, in particular, is responsible for degradation of forest soils. Agriculture increases the risk.
René Dumont - he was one of the first to denounce damages from the green revolution ("Révolution Verte") and to fight agricultural productivism. He was an expert with the United Nations and FAO, and wrote about 30 books. Great traveler, he knew perfectly farming issues in the under-developed countries. He was preaching for demographic control energy savings international cooperation to help poor nations soil quality preservation and remediation He considered development not to be so much a question of money, fertilizer, or seeds, but a carefully balanced result of the three. He advocated relations between humans and their fields relied foremost on relations between humans themselves, social relationships being the basis for a proper agricultural and industrial development. Finally, he believed the basis for good social relationships between humans was good relationship between men.
Rhodes, Australia - defoliant during the Vietnam War at its Rhodes plant, and Allied Feeds, a grain and stock feeds company which sat on a site which had been substantially reclaimed from the Parramatta River by Union Carbide who used the reclamation area as a dumping ground for its contaminated industrial waste, contaminating land and sediments with dioxin. These former industrial sites are being remediated and converted to high density residential, major retail and office blocks. The remediation of the former Union Carbide site, the former Allied Feeds site and a strip of heavily dioxin contaminated sediments in Homebush Bay have been the subject of extensive analysis, investigations and community activism. The redeveloped area will have a full length foreshore path and cycleway linking in with the extensive network of foreshore parks in Sydney..
Parramatta River - Cycleways 1.15 Major Foreshore Parks 1.16 Heritage items on or near the Foreshore 1.17 Major Wetlands and Environmentally sensitive areas 1.18 Reclamation 1.19 Remediation Parramatta River The Parramatta River is the main tributary of Sydney Harbour, along with the smaller Lane Cove and Duck Rivers. Contamination Until 1970 the river was an open drain for Sydney's industry and consequently the southern central embayments are contaminated with a range of heavy metals and chemicals. The Northern Bays are less affected as the Sydney harbour Bridge was not completed until 1932 and so industrial development was already well established on the southern side of the Harbour. Dr Gavin Birch of Sydney University has published a number of papers which show that Sydney Harbour is as contaminated as most other harbours in industrialised cities,.
