PCB Eradication Remains
Formidable Challenge 30 Years After End of Manufacturing
Alumina
is Quickly Becoming the Standard for Isolation and
Concentration of this Hazardous Material
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Alcoa PCB
removal goal for Columbia River set at 95 percent
Alcoa's
planned Columbia River dredging next fall will remove as
much as 95 percent of the known polychlorinated
biphenyls in the river at the company's former aluminum
smelter site, the Washington Department of Ecology said
today.
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Lawsuit
filed over PCB cleanup order of Fox River
The
first lawsuit has been filed in response to the recent
federal order for PCB cleanup of the Fox River north of
the De Pere dam. P.H. Glatfelter Co., of York, Penn.,
filed a civil lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in
Milwaukee last week, asking that it not be included in
the order.
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Testing reveals high concentrations of the dangerous
chemicals underneath
the city's Seafood Industrial Park.
What lies
beneath the Newport News Seafood Industrial Park could become
one of the city's costliest environmental cleanups.
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We are delighted to create a web site which
is dedicated to the art and science of the removal of
polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) compounds. Those of us working in
academic, industrial and government circles are amazed at the
resilience of these compounds. While manufacturing stopped some
thirty years ago millions of pounds of this environmental hazard
remain – to pollute our waterways, our soil and our air.
The
challenge to remove these toxic compounds from our land, sea and
air remains formidable. However advances in technology –
bioremediation and concentration of the agent with subsequent
final disposal are finally at our hands.
The website is sponsored by Dynamic
Adsorbents and dedicated as a resource for an understanding of
the compound, its toxicity and its disposal. Regardless of the
method of disposal the final step prior to waste elimination is
waste concentration….and for that the usage of alumina has
become invaluable.
Mark Moskovitz, Ph.D. - Atlanta GA
Gary Witman, MD
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