Day: 1 January 2001

Technically speaking

Peter Minting looks at new research from the US on Cryptosporidium disinfection

Big spend on odour control in Scotland

The Alderley Group is set to clean up a teatment works in Scotland following the award recently of two major contracts to supply odour control and environmental monitoring systems.

Out in the wash

Jon Woollins, Linatex, goes through the soils washing cycle.

Contamination and subsidence mar 150-year-old redevelopment

Gas Hill in Norwich, originally the location of what was arguably the first gas works in the UK, is being redeveloped for housing.

Environment Agency report on MTBE in groundwater

The Environment Agency, in partnership with the Institute of Petroleum, has produced a new report on the extent of groundwater contamination with the petrol component methyl-tertiary-butyl- ether (MTBE). The report, A review of current MTBE usage and occurence in groundwater of England and Wales, is the result of an intensive review of known MTBE pollution data and brings together information from the Agency, water companies, oil companies and fuel retailers.

Environment Agency report on MTBE in groundwater

The Environment Agency, in partnership with the Institute of Petroleum, has produced a new report on the extent of groundwater contamination with the petrol component methyl-tertiary-butyl- ether (MTBE). The report, A review of current MTBE usage and occurence in groundwater of England and Wales, is the result of an intensive review of known MTBE pollution data and brings together information from the Agency, water companies, oil companies and fuel retailers.

…CL:AIRE update…

CL:AIRE (Contaminated Land: Applications in Real Environments), established to facilitate the demonstration of remediation technologies and research on contaminated sites around the UK, has been in operation now for 22 months. The CL:AIRE Board has ratified a total of five demonstration projects: two technology demonstrations and three research projects (see IEM April and October of last year for the first three). Here, the latest two.

Aerial investigation simplifies site analysis

The aerial photograph shows a brownfield site in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The colour-contoured overlay shows the rsults of magnetic profiling carried out by Zetica (of Geo_Services International (UK) Ltd) for the client, Taylor Woodrow Construction Ltd.

Dig deep

The implementation of Part IIA of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 is providing a focus, as never before, on contaminated land risk and liability. Sellers are reluctant to retain continuing liabilities once they have sold; potential purchasers now need to take a much more rigorous approach in investigating the history of a site prior to securing a deal. Dr Norman Ellis, chief executive of Certa, on the liability of the land.

Perfectly formed?

Project Acorn, launched in May 2000, aims to bring together large companies with their small-to-medium sized suppliers to develop mutually beneficial environmental management programmes. Sound familiar?

Greek to me

Is it a brand? Is it a management system? Is it a philosophy? The SIGMA Project (Sustainability: Integrated Guidelines for Management), set up in July 1999, is a collaboration between BSI, Forum for the Future and the Institute of Social and Ethical AccountAbility. SIGMA's aim is to develop the next generation of management systems and tools, designed to help integrate the environmental, social and economic aspects of business activity into business-decision-making. Endorsed and financed by the UK government's Departments of Trade and Industry (DTI) and of Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR), the first SIGMA Roundtable Discussion took place at London Zoo last month. Can SIGMA offer more than the sum of its parts?

Death by 1,000 audits

With recent, and significant, revisions to ISO 9000 and EMAS adding to the increasing burden of environmental, health and safety, human rights and social legislation, the key difficulty, says Ai Associates' Ian Roberts - the first and only individual in the UK to have gained UKAS Accreditation as an EMAS Verifier - is in balancing all of the relevant aspects in an affordable and convincing manner.

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