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Risk assessments (RAs) are an increasingly common approach towards assessing brownfields and other contaminated sites. However, in some cases RAs can identify that risk management measures (RMMs) are required to protect human health and the environment. This can comprise something

By Bruce Tunnicliffe It was Friday July 11, 2003, my last day at the consulting firm where I started my environmental career. Over lunch, I remember walking to a government office in downtown Kitchener, Ontario, nervously lining up, and handing

A recent trend we’ve seen in the environmental remediation sector relates to a significant uptick in popularity of using Permeable Reactive Barriers (PRBs) as a Risk Management Measure (RMM) at impacted sites in Canada. But what happens when PRBs start

Vertex Environmental Inc. is thrilled to announce that we have entered into an exclusive agreement, through our US partners AST Environmental, Inc. (AST), with CETCO®, a subsidiary of Minerals Technologies Inc., to provide the proprietary FLUORO-SORB® Absorbent technology for in

This year, SMART Remediation hosted its 39th and 40th events in Canada and was very happy to be back fully in-person after a couple of long, challenging years and it surely seemed that the attendees were looking forward to being

The municipal permitting process for Sewer Discharge Agreements (SDAs) can be complex and frustrating at times. Ontario operates under a patchwork of different regulations where every municipality has its own unique permitting process. Some two-tier municipalities have separate application processes

Background: A new residential condominium development in Toronto with three levels of underground parking levels. The developer retained Vertex to prepare dewatering and groundwater treatment plans, and to process two sewer discharge agreement (SDA) permits to cover both the short-term