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Carried out using the most practical, sustainable and appropriate technique(s), only applied once we have fully understood your goals and typically following a comprehensive options appraisal.
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 key elements. Soilfix prides itself on having skilled staff with the essential skills to deliver complete soil and groundwater services in Worcester.
Soilfix are a specialist soil remediation and groundwater company in Worcester and can take your remediation projects all the way through, 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 complete the works either in the role of principal contractor or as specialist sub-contractor.
Remediation of soil and groundwater in Worcester is carried out using the most practical and appropriate techniques that are only applied once we have fully understood our clients’ objectives.
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 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 lead to significant potential liabilities, programme delays and escalating costs for landowners and developers.
Soilfix have significant 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 precise planning of pre-treatment and materials management requirements, the amount of hazardous and non-hazardous wastes removed off-site can be minimised.
All asbestos removal works are carried out by either Soilfix employees with the necessary training 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:
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 Worcester and the surrounding areas, get in touch with a member of our expert team today.
Our specialist bioremediation service in Worcester 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 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 thrive and interact with the contaminants. The presence of nutrients and available carbon within the soil will provide the basic building blocks for the organisms and can be artificially increased with the application of various fertilisers or bio-nutrient products. Optimising pH, temperature, moisture and oxygen conditions can increase populations and enable maximum interaction with the contaminant.
Ex-situ soils can use vented biopiles or windrow technologies to speed up bioremediation. Bio-venting, sparging or permeable reactive barriers (PRBs) can be used to accelerate the process in-situ.
To obtain the highest rates of bioremediation at your location, Soilfix can design and construct the systems necessary. 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 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 distinct mechanisms.
Prior to commencing the works, 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. 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 Worcester.
Soilfix has a great amount of experience in adopting a large variety of both conventional and more innovative in-situ / ex-situ groundwater treatment technologies in Worcester to meet site specific remedial goals and / or enable excavation and removal of in-ground obstructions.
With the help of qualified partners, Soilfix has also performed thermally enhanced treatment utilising both steam and electric conductive heating.
Get in touch today to find out more about our Worcester soil and groundwater treatment services.
Enquiries for soil and groundwater remediation in Worcester
Peter Howland
Managing Director
