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The following four websites are large, comprehensive and useful sources of information and are referred to in various chapters in this document.
www.api.org
www.epa.gov
www.gwrtac.org
www.ngwa.org
The following websites provide information on technologies, companies and events in the soil decontamination field. All are non-commercial sites and lead to other useful information sources.
The most comprehensive network of websites for soil decontamination is that in the United States. Of the many sites produced the most important are described below:
http://www.frtr.gov
This is the parent site for the US government agencies active in remediation technologies. The central organisation is Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable (FRTR), which also is linked to the home pages of seven agencies: Department of Defense (DoD), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of' Energy (DoE), Department of the Interior (DoI), Department of Commerce (DoC), Department of Agriculture (DoA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
http://clu-in.org
The Hazardous Waste Clean-up Information website provides information about innovative treatment technologies to the hazardous waste remediation community. It describes programmes, organisations, publications and other tools for federal and state personnel, consulting engineers, technology developers and vendors, remediation contractors, researchers, community groups, and individual citizens. The site is managed by EPA's Technology Innovation Office and is intended as a forum for all waste remediation stakeholders.
http://www.epareachit.org
EPA REACH IT, sponsored by EPA's Technology Innovation Office, is a new system designed to permit users to search, view, download, and print information about innovative remediation and characterisation technologies:
EPA REACH IT gives information about over 750 service providers in the US that offer almost 1,300 remediation technologies and more than 150 characterisation technologies. EPA REACH IT combines information from three established EPA databases, the Vendor Information System for Innovative Treatment Technologies (VISITT), the Vendor Field Analytical and Characterisation Technologies System (Vendor FACTS), and the Innovative Treatment Technologies (ITT), to give users access to comprehensive information about treatment and characterisation technologies and their applications. It combines information submitted by technology service providers about remediation and characterisation technologies with information from EPA, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, and by state project managers about sites at which innovative technologies are being employed. Those sources together provide up-to-date information about technologies to characterise or remediate a site, and about sites where those technologies are being used and the service providers that offer them.
http://www.calgasoline.com/studies.htm - A file rather than a website, giving an overview of a larger number of studies and presentations, covering not just remediation aspects, but also the political side (California Executive Orders), Underground Storage Tanks, Economics, International Community Assessments and drinking water & health effects.
Other useful United States Environmental Protection Agency websites:
http://www.epa.gov/tio
The Technology Innovation Office (TIO) of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was created in 1990 to act as an advocate for new technologies. TIO's mission is to increase the applications of innovative treatment technologies to contaminated waste sites, soils, and groundwater. TIO has encouraged and relied on co-operative ventures with other partners to accomplish most of its early goals. This effort to leverage resources has lead to numerous joint efforts that have enhanced the state of remediation. Since its creation, TIO has worked with many partners inside EPA, in other federal agencies, and in the private sector to improve the understanding of remediation treatment technologies and reduce impediments to their widespread use.
http://www.epa.gov/ORD
The Office of Research and Development (ORD) is the scientific and technological arm of the EPA. Comprised of three headquarters offices, three national research laboratories and two national centres, ORD is organised around a basic strategy of risk assessment and risk management to remediate environmental and human health problems.
ORD focuses on the advancement of basic peer-reviewed scientific research and the implementation of cost?effective, common sense technology. Fundamental to ORD's mission is a partnership with the academic scientific community, through extramural research grants and fellowships to help develop the sound environmental research necessary to ensure effective policy and regulatory decisions.
http://www.epa.gov/ORD/SITE
The Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation (SITE) Programme was established by the EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response and the Office of Research and Development (ORD). The SITE Programme is administered by ORD National Risk Management Research Laboratory in the Land Remediation and Pollution Control Division (LRPCD), headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. The SITE Demonstration Programme encourages the development and implementation of innovative treatment technologies for hazardous waste site remediation.
http://www.rtdf.org
The Remediation Technologies Development Forum (RTDF) was established in 1992 by the EPA to identify what government and industry can do together to develop and improve the environmental technologies needed to address their mutual clean-up problems in the safest, most cost-effective manner. The RTDF fosters public and private sector partnerships to undertake research, development, demonstration and evaluation efforts focused on finding innovative solutions to high priority problems. The RTDF has grown to include partners from industry, several federal and state government agencies and academia who voluntarily share knowledge, experience, equipment, facilities, and even proprietary technology to achieve common clean-up goals.
http://www.epa.gov/superfund
Public concern over the extent of uncontrolled dumping of hazardous chemical waste and abandoned warehouses and industrial sites led the US Congress to establish the Superfund programme in 1980 to locate, investigate, and clean up the worst sites nationwide. The EPA administers the Superfund programme in co-operation with individual states and tribal governments. This website provides an overview of the Superfund programme, highlights key steps in the Superfund cleanup process, guides users to enforcement information, lists EPA's Superfund offices and partnership organisations, and provides answers to frequently asked questions.
European websites covering Soil and Ground Water remediation issues
These websites typically cover large scope environmental contamination issues in Europe and provide potentially useful authority, technology developer and service provider contacts.
http://www.caracas.at
CARACAS is a Concerted Action initiative within the Environment and Climate Programme of the European Commission, DG Environment (former DG XII). About 16 European countries participated in the CARACAS project with scientists from national environmental authorities and research organisations., i.e, CARACAS is primarily an authority network and is involved with current research initiatives on contaminated land risk assessment in Europe and identifies priority research tasks for future R&D programmes
http://www.clarinet.at
The Contaminated Land Rehabilitation Network For Environmental Technologies in Europe, CLARINET's primary objective is to develop technical recommendations for sound decision making on the remediation of contaminated sites in Europe.
http://www.nicole.org
NICOLE, the Network of Industrially Contaminated Land in Europe, is a network for all aspects of industrially contaminated land. Its members come from industrial companies (problem holders), service providers/technology developers, universities and independent research organisations (problem solvers) and governmental organisations (policy makers).
http://www.cordis.lu
Provides information on a vast range of research, development and innovation activities undertaken on a European level. This website is one of the main EU information sites.
www.shef.ac.uk/gprg/publications/pdf/gprgpaper_2004_chisala_tait_lerner.pdf
In this report of the University of Shefield, UK (2004) the risk of MTBE to urban groundwater is evaluated. It does so by predicting the MTBE probable pollution status of groundwater at all locations in the city of Nottingham using a risk-based tool called Borehole Optimisation System (BOS).
Other websites of various organisations working on the soil/ groundwater issues and, especially, including Central, East and South-East European countries:
http://www.eea.eu.int
The European Environment Agency is a central node of an extended network, the European Environment Information and Observation Network (EIONET)
This website provides very easy access to various European Environmental Agencies and well structured information on environmental issues in several languages. Also, several data bases are accessible via this website.
http://www.gnet.org/about/
The Global Network of Environment and Technology (GNET) is a general site for environmental issues, providing large scope world wide information on the environmental issues. Sponsored partly by the US Dept. of Energy, GNET also assists government scientists and researchers to commercialise innovative environmental technologies.
http://www.rec.org
The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) is specializing on environmental issues in those areas and is headquartered in Szentendre, Hungary.
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