The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday its $1.4 billion plan to clean up the most polluted portion of the Passaic River.
Cement-Lock is a virtually odorless thermal-chemical technology that converts contaminated sediment and hazardous waste to Ecomelt, a non-leachable, harmless beneficial-use product.
The Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure results demonstrate that
Ecomelt® does not leach any priority metals above regulatory limits.
Depending on exposure, such contaminants can cause cancer and harm most human organs, and kill or sicken wildlife. Coal ash is the second largest source of industrial waste in the country.
Activist takes a plunge in the polluted waters of the Gowanus canal to prove a point of how contaminated the waterway has become and to bring awareness.
Contaminated sediment of toxic waste can be converted to usuable ecomelt through the cement-lock process.
It is estimated that there are more than 450,000 brownfields in the U.S. Cleaning up and reinvesting in these properties increases local tax bases, facilitates job growth, utilizes existing infrastructure, takes development pressures off of undeveloped, open land, and both improves and protects the environment.
The purpose of the remedy selection process is to implement remedies that eliminate, reduce, or control risks to human health and the environment. Remedial actions are to be implemented as soon as site data and information make it possible to do so.