abandoned waste

Abandoned wastes on federal Crown lands pose potential risks to human health and safety.

There is currently no EU-wide reliable information about the number and location of closed/abandoned waste facilities.

Another source of concern to Parliament was the important legacy from the past in the form of closed and abandoned waste facilities causing pollution.

The potential cost would be more than double what Congress has designated for the huge cleanup program for abandoned waste dumps, which had been largely unregulated.

Measurement of volatile organics at an abandoned waste disposal site, Montréal, Quebec, Canada.

DIAND plans to store information on abandoned waste sites in a GIS based database.

Soon after the first Chico incident, Texas expanded the area regulators were required to check for abandoned waste wells (a rule that applied only to certain parts of the state).

The decision represents a sharp departure from the way courts have been handling lawsuits over who will pay for cleanups under the Superfund program that deals with abandoned waste sites.

Our highly trained professionals have studied abandoned waste sites, landfills, hazardous waste disposal facilities, mining-related sites, manufacturing and industrial complexes, and military bases.

"The cleanup at three abandoned waste sites on the Superfund list was stopped in 1986, when Ohio decided not to accept any more of our waste," Mr. Gimello said.

The audit team also witnessed base staff happening on out of compliance situations and remedying them immediately. Visible oil staining in the soil was observed next to an abandoned waste oil tank.

The judge said Congress enacted the 1980 law to compel the waste disposal industry "to correct its past mistakes and to provide a solution for the dangers posed by inactive abandoned waste sites."

In instances where the responsible party for abandoned wastes could not be found, the responsibility for the clean up of Crown land rests with DIAND, as the responsible manager.

"The future of fishing centers on our negotiations for a consent decree with Allied that would lead to remediation of the waste flow from their abandoned waste beds," said Mr. Flocke.

A Few Exceptions The study did note some sites where, it said, the E.P.A. prepared good plans for dealing with abandoned waste dumps, particularly in the agency's New England region.

A visible oily sheen was observed south of the main jetty in the vicinity of the floating docks, next to 2 fuel dispensing pumps and down slope from the abandoned waste oil tank.

Healthy environments are fostered through activities such as the clean-up of abandoned waste sites, inspections for water licences, the assessment of contaminants in food, and land use permits, leases, and mineral dispositions.

As regards Mr Nicholson's last remark, which differs from what previous speakers said, about old abandoned waste facilities, the Commission and the Council agree in the common position that an inventory should be prepared.

While the state of Oregon allocated a special fund for abandoned waste sites in 1991, it specifically does not cover the Alkali Lake site, which comes from the regular budget for DEQ.

Samples of the indoor air of 18 homes near an abandoned waste disposal site in Montréal were collected and analyzed by gas chromatography (Dann and Gonthier, 1986; Gonthier, 1986).

Military bases show up prominently on the E.P.A.'s "national priority list" of about 900 abandoned waste dumps or spill sites that require immediate attention because of the threat they present to public health or the environment.

In the last four years, in the E.P.A.'s Superfund program to clean abandoned waste sites, the Government has successfully prosecuted 6 laboratories and 17 individuals for fraud, and three dozen other laboratories are under investigation.

Last month, the state's Attorney General, Robert Abrams, convinced that Radium Chemical could not pay for removing the remaining radium, won a new court order declaring that the building was, in effect, an abandoned waste site.

According to Mayor DeRiggi, efforts to clean up Glen Cove Creek and the abandoned waste site were heightened earlier this year when officials of state and Federal agencies inspected the abandoned tanks, grounds and buildings.

The claimants consider the clean-up work performed by Texaco to be unsatisfactory, and cleaned only a small fraction of the hundreds of abandoned waste pits which Texaco had created, without touching the polluted groundwater, rivers and soil.