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Carried out using effective practical, sustainable and appropriate technique(s), only applied once we have completely understood your goals and generally 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 crucial elements. Soilfix prides itself on having fully trained personnel with the necessary skills to deliver complete soil and groundwater services in Leeds.
Soilfix are a specialist soil remediation and groundwater company in Leeds who can manage your remediation projects from identification of the remedial requirement through to completion and final verification. Our internal professional staff 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.
Once we’ve understood our clients’ goals and objectives, we determine the best techniques and processed to carry out our remediation of soil and groundwater services.
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 concern 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 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 either carried out by 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 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 Leeds and the surrounding areas, get in touch with a member of our expert team today.
Our specialist bioremediation service in Leeds and the surrounding areas is carried out by our expert team. Many organic contaminants provide an energy source for naturally occurring micro-organisms existing in 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 altering the conditions within the soils that enable the relevant micro-organisms to both interact and thrive with the contaminants. The soil’s availability of carbon and nutrient content within the soil will provide the foundations for the organisms and can be artificially increased with the application of various fertilisers or bio-nutrient products. Optimising temperature, moisture, pH and oxygen conditions can expand 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 enhance the treatment process.
Stabilisation / Solidification of soils is increasingly a cost effective technology for the rapid treatment and / or immobilization of hazardous wastes and contaminated soils or sludge’s. The terms “solidification” and “stabilization” describe two specific mechanisms.
Prior to commencing the works, samples of the contaminated 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. This may involve testing for hydraulic conductivity, unconfined compressive strength, and leachate properties, depending on the requirements.
Speak to us today for more information about soil stabilisation / solidification in Leeds.
Soilfix has a great amount of experience in adopting a wide variety of both conventional and more innovative in-situ / ex-situ groundwater treatment technologies in Leeds to meet site specific remedial goals and / or enable excavation and extraction of in-ground obstructions.
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 Leeds soil and groundwater treatment services.
Enquiries for soil and groundwater remediation in Leeds
Peter Howland
Managing Director
