Category: LandWatch

USEPA Issues Policy Guidance on Evaluation of Institutional Controls

The USEPA released on September 13, 2011 new guidance titled “Recommended Evaluation of Institutional Controls: Supplement to the Comprehensive Five Year Review Guidance”  providing recommendations for the monitoring and inspection of ICs during the CERCLA five-year review process.  The new USEPA guidance recommends that “ICs be mentioned specifically in the overall protectiveness statement when long-term protectiveness hinges on compliance with ICs.”

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Terradex Keeps Contaminated Soil Safely Managed

No activities that will disturb the soil at or below the pavement in the restricted Areas (e.g., excavation, grading, removal, trenching, filling, earth movement, or mining) shall be allowed on the Property without a Soil Management Plan and a Health and Safety Plan.

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Financial Health Monitoring of Institutional Control Property Owners

The long term success of Institutional Controls (ICs) and cleanup remedies is often only as strong as the financial health of new property owners.   This is why, along with its classic suite of land monitoring, Terradex LandWatch now monitors the financial health of contaminated property owners.

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Where is the Water Well? The Competing Interests of Homeland Security and Environmental Health

Can you find the location of a water well in on a governmental mapping system? The answer is maybe – and it varies nationwide. A strong tension between the environmental health protection and safeguards for homeland security controls whether you will find that water well.  Environmental health protection invites for more  transparency in water well locations to aid vulnerability assessments from spill sites, while homeland security management invites hiding the well locations for fear that terrorist would know their locations to affect an assault.

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ASTM Publishes Continuing Obligations Guide

After years in the making and on the heels of two recent court decisions addressing “appropriate care,” ASTM published E2790-11, the “Standard Guide for Identifying and Complying With Continuing Obligations.”

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Panel at Brownfields 2011 to Discuss Emerging Trends of IC Stewardship

A group of institutional control experts and state and local government experts, in a roundtable setting, will describe and compare thoughts about emerging trends in the IC institution, and particularly IC monitoring and stewardship, during an upcoming educational session at Brownfields 2011 – April 4th at 1pm.

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States and Locals Gather on the Web to Talk ICs

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Taking Stewardship Underwater By Tracking Dredging Activity

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EPA Cleanup Proposal Relies on Institutional Control Monitoring

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Protecting 6,000,000 Children In Daycare From Toxic Hazards of Cleanup Sites

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