Services

Soil and Groundwater
Remediation Hull

Carried out using effective sustainable, practical and appropriate technique(s), only applied once we have fully understood your goals and typically following a detailed an in-depth options appraisal.

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Contaminated Land Remediation

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Soil and Groundwater Remediation Services Hull

Understanding the most current remedial technology is not enough for successful delivery of a remediation project. Health & safety, demolition, construction programs, waste management, changing legislation and the clients’ objectives are all important factors. Soilfix prides itself on having well-trained personnel with the essential skills to deliver complete soil and groundwater services in Hull.

Soilfix are a specialist soil remediation and groundwater company in Hull and can take your remediation projects from identification of the remedial requirement through to completion and final verification. Our team of in-house professionals can facilitate all stages of the remedial process, including design, site clearance, demolition, enabling works and regulatory approvals. Soilfix can finalise the works either as the role of principal contractor or as specialist sub-contractor.

Remediation of soil and groundwater in Hull is carried out using the most practical and appropriate techniques that are only applied once we have fully understood our clients’ objectives.

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Asbestos in Soils & Demolition Materials

An increasingly common legacy of former industrial sites is the presence of asbestos containing materials (ACM’s) deposited or dispersed within made ground, resulting in asbestos contaminated soils (ACS) present in the ground.

This issue is typically enhanced by poorly managed demolition practices, resulting in ACM fragments becoming spread across the site surface and/or throughout crushed materials. The presence of ACM’s and ACS can result in significant potential liabilities, programme delays and escalating costs for developers and landowners.

Soilfix have a vast amount of experience in adopting pragmatic, robust yet cost-effective solutions for asbestos contaminated sites, fully in compliance with control of Asbestos Regulations (CAR) 2012 and relevant waste management legislation. Through careful planning of pre-treatment and materials management requirements, the volumes of hazardous and non-hazardous wastes removed off-site can be minimised.

Works are carried out by either Soilfix appropriately trained staff under a Notifiable Non-Licensable Works (NNLW) Notification, or, where higher risk ACM’s are encountered, carried out using a licensed Asbestos Contractor. The following cost effective and sustainable remedial measures are routinely carried out by Soilfix:

  • Selective excavation, sorting and in-situ manual picking of ACM fragments;
  • Screening and manual picking of ACM fragments, in an enclosed picking station for larger quantities of material;
  • Stabilisation and / or encapsulation of ACS to minimise the potential for residual fibre release;
  • Stringent environmental monitoring and controls, including fine-mist (virtual enclosure) suppression systems, reassurance air testing and scanning electron microscopy analysis to confirm airborne fibre concentrations are below HSE control limits as well as environmental background levels.

To guarantee compliance with CAR2012, all Soilfix employees who operate with asbestos are trained in Non-licensed/Notifiable non-licenced work are fully qualified, have routine medical exams, and have their respirator face-fitted.

For more information about asbestos removal in soil and demolition materials in Hull and the surrounding areas, get in touch with a member of our expert team today.

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Bioremediation

Our specialist bioremediation service in Hull and the surrounding areas is carried out by our expert team. Numerous organic contaminants provide an energy source for naturally occurring micro-organisms present within the soil (e.g. bacteria). Under the right conditions, these organisms will degrade organic contaminants to form less toxic and/or more stable materials.

These processes can be excelled by manipulating the conditions within the soils that enable the relevant micro-organisms to both thrive and interact with the contaminants. The presence of nutrients and available carbon within the soil will provide the foundations for the organisms and can be artificially increased with the application of various bio-nutrient products or fertilisers. Optimising pH, temperature, moisture and oxygen conditions can boost populations and enable maximum interaction with the contaminant.

Biorememediation can be accelerated within ex-situ soils using vented biopiles or windrow technology. Bio-venting, sparging or permeable reactive barriers (PRBs) can be used to accelerate the process in-situ.

The solutions that Soilfix can design and construct will allow you to achieve the highest rates of bioremediation at your site. Where more complex contaminant situations, gross start concentrations or biomass limited situations occur, Soilfix has experience in bio-augmentation using both specially cultured and indigenous biomass to increase the treatment process.

Stabilisation - Solidification Soilfix
Stabilisation Soilfix

Soil Stabilisation / Solidification Hull

A increasingly affordable technology for the quick treatment and/or immobilisation of hazardous wastes and polluted soils or sludge is soil stabilisation or solidification. The terms “solidification” and “stabilization” describe two specific mechanisms.

  • Solidification can encapsulate dangerous components, boost compressive strength, and reduce permeability by altering the physical characteristics of contaminated material.
  • Stabilisation adjusts the chemistry of particular hazardous constituents, making them less soluble, less mobile, and/or less toxic.

Prior to starting,  samples of the corrupt material are taken and laboratory pilot trials conducted to calculate the most cost effective reagent or combination of reagents to achieve the site remedial targets. Binding agents are then applied and the soils rotivated either in-situ (e.g. auger, injection, rotivator) or ex-situ (e.g. batching plant, blending equipment). Performance testing of the treated materials is usually completed throughout the works. Depending on requirements this can include tests on hydraulic conductivity, unconfined compressive strength and leachate characteristics.

Speak to us today for more information about soil stabilisation / solidification in Hull.

Insitu Remediation Soilfix
Insitu Remediation Soilfix

In-Situ / Ex-Situ Groundwater Treatment Hull

Soilfix has extensive experience in adopting a large variety of both conventional and more innovative in-situ / ex-situ groundwater treatment technologies in Hull to meet site specific remedial objectives and / or enable excavation and extraction of in-ground obstructions.

  • Total fluids recovery & ex-situ treatment using solids/NAPL separation, air stripping and filtration;
  • Surfactant-enhanced total fluids recovery through groundwater recirculation or injection;
  • Free-product recovery (with and without vacuum-enhancement) using pneumatic skimming, dual-phase and multi-phase vacuum extraction systems;
  • Air sparge / SVE systems (including use of ozone);
  • Enhanced natural attenuation techniques for both aerobic and reductive treatment to stimulate accelerated biodegradation (for solvents, trace organic compounds and hydrocarbons) or precipitation (e.g. hexavalent chromium); and,
  • Reduction technologies / in-situ chemical oxidation.

Additionally, Soilfix has expertise performing thermally enhanced treatment with both steam and electric conductive heating with the help of qualified partners.

Get in touch today to find out more about our Hull soil and groundwater treatment services.

Enquiries for soil and groundwater remediation in Hull

Peter Howland
Managing Director