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Carried out using the most sustainable, practical and appropriate technique(s), only applied once we have completely understood your objectives and typically following a comprehensive options appraisal.
Understanding the latest 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 essential components. Soilfix prides itself on having well-trained personnel with the necessary skills to deliver complete soil and groundwater services in Manchester.
Soilfix are a specialist soil remediation and groundwater company in Manchester who can manage 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 close the project either in the role of principal contractor or as specialist sub-contractor.
Remediation of soil and groundwater in Manchester is carried out using the most practical and appropriate techniques that are only applied once we have fully understood our clients’ objectives.
The presence of asbestos is becoming more prevalent in former industrial sites, which contains materials (ACM’s) deposited or dispersed within made ground, leading to asbestos contaminated soils (ACS) present in the ground.
This problem is typically enhanced by poorly controlled 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 growing 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 the relevant waste management legislation and Control of Asbestos Regulations (CAR) 2012. Through accurate planning of pre-treatment and materials management requirements, the volumes of hazardous and non-hazardous wastes removed off-site can be minimised.
All asbestos removal works are carried out by either Soilfix properly skilled personnel 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 sustainable and cost-effective remedial measures are routinely carried out by Soilfix:
All Soilfix staff working with asbestos are Non-licensed/Notifiable non-licensed work trained and have regular medicals and respirator face-fitting to ensure compliance with CAR2012.
For more information about asbestos removal in soil and demolition materials in Manchester and the surrounding areas, get in touch with a member of our expert team today.
Our specialist bioremediation service in Manchester and the surrounding areas is carried out by our expert team. Various organic contaminants provide an energy source for naturally occurring micro-organisms present within the soil (e.g. bacteria). Under the right circumstances, these organisms will degrade organic contaminants to form less toxic and/or more stable materials.
These processes can be enhanced by manipulating the conditions within the soils that enable the relevant micro-organisms to both interact and thrive with the contaminants. The presence of nutrients and available carbon within the soil will provide the groundwork for the organisms and can be artificially increased with the application of various bio-nutrient products or fertilisers. Optimising moisture, temperature, pH 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 will allow you to achieve the highest rates of bioremediation at your site can be designed and built by Soilfix. 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 enhance the treatment process.
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.
Prior to starting, samples of the corrupt material are taken and laboratory pilot trials carried out 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 Manchester.
Soilfix has a wide range of experience in adopting a large variety of both conventional and more innovative in-situ / ex-situ groundwater treatment technologies in Manchester to meet site specific remedial goals and / or enable excavation and extraction of in-ground obstructions.
Soilfix also has experience in carrying out thermally-enhanced treatment using both steam and electric conductive heating using specialist partners.
Get in touch today to find out more about our Manchester soil and groundwater treatment services.
Enquiries for soil and groundwater remediation in Manchester
Peter Howland
Managing Director
