LTR - Ep 68 - What Is The Proper Way To Perform Soil Remediation?

Our 68th episode is: What is the proper process for doing soil remediation? And so I wanted to kind of back up from some of the things that we've been looking at, at like individual contaminants, and back up and go with a broad overview of how remediation should be performed when addressing contaminated soil.

So if you have contaminated soil, there needs to be a systematic process that is gone through in order to address the contaminated soil properly.

So the proper way to perform soil remediation is to first do some testing to understand, uh, what type of contamination we have in the soil, to classify the contamination as what it is.

Uh, and then in addition to that, uh, then we need to apply an appropriate remediation technique, which could be in situ, which means in place, uh, performing the remediation in place on the soil without moving it, or it could be ex situ, which means removing the soil and either treating it somewhere else or using some other method, uh, based on the specific types of contaminants or pollutants that are found in the soil.

Um, and so that first testing and classifying of the contamination, uh, could be, uh, known as assessment and, uh, testing, assessing the site, right? So site assessment.

Site assessment involves taking samples and, uh, analyzing them using, uh, field testing equipment and laboratory analysis in order to understand what the contamination at the site is, and, uh, not only what it is, whether it's metals or petroleum hydrocarbons or other chlorinated solvents or the like, um, but also at what types of co- uh, concentrations that we're dealing with, right? So initially, we need to do some site assessment.

And then, uh, once we know what we're dealing with and at what levels we're dealing with, we need to know what our regulatory compliance measures are, what thresholds of interest that we're looking for versus what kind of contamination concentrations we have found in our site assessment.

So for regulatory compliance, we need to check with our local environmental laws, uh, through, you know, the, you know, state agencies and the USEPA and find out what are the cleanup levels that we need to get to, to, uh, conform to the safety standards, uh, of having that soil, you know, below those required thresholds.

So again, the systematic process of doing, uh, soil remediation is first doing a site assessment to determine what the contamination is and at what levels that the contamination is present, and then determining, okay, based on those present levels of concentration, what thresholds of interest do we need to remediate that contamination down to, to comply with environmental laws? All right.

Our 68th episode is: What is the proper process for doing soil remediation? And so I wanted to kind of back up from some of the things that we've been looking at, at like individual contaminants, and back up and go with a broad overview of how remediation should be performed when addressing contaminated soil.

So if you have contaminated soil, there needs to be a systematic process that is gone through in order to address the contaminated soil properly.

So the proper way to perform soil remediation is to first do some testing to understand, uh, what type of contamination we have in the soil, to classify the contamination as what it is.

Uh, and then in addition to that, uh, then we need to apply an appropriate remediation technique, which could be in situ, which means in place, uh, performing the remediation in place on the soil without moving it, or it could be ex situ, which means removing the soil and either treating it somewhere else or using some other method, uh, based on the specific types of contaminants or pollutants that are found in the soil.

Um, and so that first testing and classifying of the contamination, uh, could be, uh, known as assessment and, uh, testing, assessing the site, right? So site assessment.

Site assessment involves taking samples and, uh, analyzing them using, uh, field testing equipment and laboratory analysis in order to understand what the contamination at the site is, and, uh, not only what it is, whether it's metals or petroleum hydrocarbons or other chlorinated solvents or the like, um, but also at what types of co- uh, concentrations that we're dealing with, right? So initially, we need to do some site assessment.

And then, uh, once we know what we're dealing with and at what levels we're dealing with, we need to know what our regulatory compliance measures are, what thresholds of interest that we're looking for versus what kind of contamination concentrations we have found in our site assessment.

So for regulatory compliance, we need to check with our local environmental laws, uh, through, you know, the, you know, state agencies and the USEPA and find out what are the cleanup levels that we need to get to, to, uh, conform to the safety standards, uh, of having that soil, you know, below those required thresholds.

So again, the systematic process of doing, uh, soil remediation is first doing a site assessment to determine what the contamination is and at what levels that the contamination is present, and then determining, okay, based on those present levels of concentration, what thresholds of interest do we need to remediate that contamination down to, to comply with environmental laws? All right.