Caswell F. Holloway IV, a former mayoral aide who helped design an alternative cleanup plan for the Gowanus and is now the commissioner of the city's Department of Environmental Protection, said he had no estimate of New York's financial liability for what federal officials said included contamination from various facilities, including an asphalt plant and an incinerator in the area.
Lieutenant Hanley said that the protective gear for cleanup workers was designed largely to keep oil from their skin.
The polluter, General Electric, and the Environmental Protection Agency have issued separate reports evaluating the six-month cleanup, which was designed as a trial run for a much larger second phase that will finally rid the river of PCBs, industrial lubricants that have poisoned its mud and fish for generations.
Although both plants and their associated microorganisms presented a potential for rhizoremediation of petroleum hydrocarbons in contaminated salt marsh sediments, results highlighted that nutrient requirements may be distinct among plant species, which should be accounted for when designing cleanup strategies.
We do most of the design and cleanup of Environmental Protection Agency Superfund projects, former Energy Department Manhattan Project sites, and former Defense Department sites.
Other groups currently have to do cleanup on the bad design of their platforms, and the marketplace will walk if those solutions are not in place".
Predicting long-term migration of dense non-aqueous phase liquids (DNAPLs) in subsurface systems is essential to determine appropriate remediation design for cleanup of subsurface contamination.
Such differences in calculated exposures can change a remediation decision from no-action to remediation, or vice-versa, and impact the remedial design when cleanup is required.
For some observers, like Mr. Jones, there is a disconnect between the televised images of cleanup workers in Tyvek suits designed to protect against toxic substances and the assertion by BP and federal officials that the oiled waste need not be given the special treatment required for toxic materials.
The new composites were designed for environmental cleanup of organic pollutants.
