The 2007 U.S. EPA/NGWA “Fractured Rock Conference: State of the Science and Measuring Success in Remediation” will take place Sept. 24-26 in Portland, Maine.
At least 25,000 of the poorest rural residents in Djibouti will, for the first time, be able to access clean drinking water close to their homes through a new partnership.
The Society of Chemical Industry has announced that its SCI Separation Science and Technology Group is set to host IEX 2008 from July 9-11, 2008, in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
The U.S. Air Force and Raytheon Co. have been ordered by the EPA to clean up a migrating plume of contaminated ground water at the Tucson International Airport Area Superfund Site, which has a 50-year history of chemical contamination due to its aircraft and electronics facilities and unlined landfills.
Bound Brook, N.J.’s Summit Drilling Co., one of New Jersey’s largest environmental and geotechnical drilling firms, has merged with Environmental Remediation Contractors of Delran, N.J.
Ice cores drilled from southern Greenland have revealed the first evidence of an ancient – and surprisingly lush – forest, findings which suggest that the ice sheet may be much more stable against rising temperatures than previously thought.
To keep the water supply flowing at Britain’s largest grower of root vegetables, ITT Flygt, the pump and fluid-handling specialist, has supplied a three-pump system at Albert Bartlett & Sons in Cambridgeshire, a company that produce potatoes, carrots, parsnips and onions. The Flygt submersibles are part of a water supply, distribution and pumping system installed by Panks Engineers, which had to meet strict environmental guidelines.