Part II of our Newsletter on the Increasing Uses for High-Resolution Site Characterization “If I had an hour to solve a problem I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.” ― Albert Einstein “Many
Letter from the MOECC
“We believe that characterizing a complex site, such as the [confidential site], using only monitoring wells may involve a high level of uncertainty since these wells are generally unable to provide the detailed subsurface contamination information required. We therefore suggest
Have you Fallen Behind Your Competition?
Regulations Keep Getting Tougher: What You Can Do About It. If you experience indigestion when opening correspondence from a Regulator, you’re not alone. Environmental regulations are getting tougher and so are those enforcing them. The latest version of the Record
A Salty Tale of Probing
by Patrick O’Neill About five years ago I began working with some innovative tools that profiles the subsurface in real time. While a lot of people are aware of these technologies and their main functions, whether it is profiling LNAPL impacts
Why ISCO is More Useful in 2016 Than Ever
People have been aware of the process of oxidation for millennia: ever since we learned to fashion tools and weapons from copper, iron and other metals. Much later, once we started to understand the underlying chemistry, the word oxidation was used to
RemTech 2015 – Erin Brokovich Reminds Us Again Why We Do What We Do
Last year at the RemTech conference in Banff we were inspired by a presentation by Lois Gibbs who led the Love Canal Homeowners Association to fight for the rights of families affected by toxic waste (that article is here). This
PRB Design and Installation
(or Everything You Always Wanted to Know About PRBs, But Were Afraid to Ask – Part 2) Last month, in honour of innovative Canadian-based research into Permeable Reactive Barriers (PRBs), we presented a brief history and discussion of traditional PRB
Half Day Remediation Course
Interested in Learning More About Remediation? Waterloo 2015 Remediation Conference Vertex Environmental is proud to have been selected to present a short course and a technical paper at this year’s International Association of Hydrogeologists conference held in Waterloo, Ontario from
The Birth of the Iron Wall
A permeable reactive barrier (PRB) is a permeable “wall” created below ground to clean up contaminated groundwater, it is a barrier to contaminants but allows the natural flow of groundwater to continue through the underground wall. According to one of
Discovering Pluto
Curiosity Can Clear Up a Fuzzy Picture We are very excited about the New Horizons spacecraft and the new information that is returning every day about Pluto. This newsletter is dedicated to Pluto! Scientists driven to explain disturbances in the