Ecologia Environmental

Ecologia’s Office in Ireland Moves to Larger Premises

admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:04:24 +0000

Ecologia proudly announces the opening of its new premises in Antrim, Northern Ireland. Since our recent expansion into Ireland in 2009, Ecologia has continued to grow serving its existing client base and forging into new areas of commercial work. Chris Madden, Regional Manager for Ireland said, “This is an exciting time for Ecologia in Ireland, opening our new premises will strengthen our position within the Irish market and will provide a central location to deliver continued sustainable growth and provide a higher level of customer care for our existing clients.” The Antrim office will provide an easily accessible location from which we will be able to offer rapid response service for environmental pollution incidents across Northern Ireland.

Contact Details

Unit 3 Antrim Business Park
Randalstown Road
Antrim
Co. Antrim
BT41 4LD

Tel +44 (0)28 944 67132
Fax +44 (0)28 258 60857

irelandinfo@ecologia-environmental.com

Zero Valent Iron (ZVI) Tests Begin

admin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:36:33 +0000

Ecologia has installed a test reactor at a National Grid site to allow the effectiveness of ZVI at treating contaminated groundwater to be assessed. The design concept is to take water from upgradient of the exiting in ground barrier and pass the groundwater though the reactor to treat cyanide. Ecologia is undertaking the work for Parsons Brinckerhoff.

Further Expansion at the Northern Ireland Office

admin — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:48:49 +0000

Two new staff have joined our Regional Manager Chris Madden at the recently opened office in Northern Ireland in order to cope with the increased volume of business. Janine Kerr has been appointed as Project Coordinator whilst James McGrath has been recruited as Environmental Scientist. Janine former experience as Senior Environmental Consultant and EMS auditor will also ensure that the Ireland office will fully implement the extensive Company’s Quality and H&S system. James graduated from the University of Coleraine with a BSc in Environmental Science in 2008 and previously worked as Environmental Scientist for another Irish contractor specialised on domestic oil spills emergency response. James will increase Ecologia’s operational capability and on site response time.

In-Situ Radio Frequency Heating (ISRFH) – Manston, Kent.

admin — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:42:53 +0000

Total UK appointed Ecologia to carry out a remediation assessment for In-Situ Radio Frequency Heating (ISRFH) at a former service station located in a groundwater vulnerable area (overlying a Chalk aquifer) in Manston, Kent. The contamination was mostly associated with Petroleum Hydrocarbons and confined within unsaturated Chalk strata, approximately 10 m below ground level (mbgl). For this site ISRFH electrodes were deployed in a triangular array between 3m and 6 m bgl together with eight multilevel SVE extraction wells. The site is typical of a decommissioned medium sized service station in an area with high groundwater vulnerability. The remediation was performed in six Stages in order to demonstrate the added benefits of coupling ISRFH to a traditional SVE system.

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Pump & Treat – Yorkshire

admin — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:24:32 +0000

Ecologia applies the same level of engineering and design to its pump and treat systems that it does to other more complicated techniques such as In- Situ Radio Frequency Heating (ISRFH) of soils. The result is effective, robust equipment that requires little maintenance and is able to operate over the long periods of time often required by pump and treat systems.

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Ozone Sparging – Staffordshire

admin — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:18:39 +0000

Ecologia has completed a project in Staffordshire to remediate petrol contamination to groundwater following a substantial loss from an underground storage tank (UST). The petrol contamination was found to have migrated beneath several domestic properties, leading to an indoor vapour inhalation risk pathway.

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Multi-Phase Extraction – Northern Italy.

admin — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:22:17 +0000

Ecologia was appointed to design, manufacture and install a Multi-Phase extraction system at a chemicals facility in Northern Italy. The remediation contracting was undertaken by Ecologia following investigation and overall design by various consultants.

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Escape of Oil From Pulrose Power Station – Isle of Man

admin — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:16:59 +0000

Approximately 50,000 litres of heavy fuel oil were lost during this oil spill, which coincided with a period of exceptionally heavy rain and flooding. Oil had impacted flooded land, culverts, the River Douglas and Douglas Harbour. A Joint Response Committee was established by the Isle of Man Government, including representatives from Ecologia
Environmental Solutions Ltd, The Department of Local Government and Environment, The Department of Agriculture, the Port Authority and the Department of Transport. Ecologia were appointed by insurers to advise the JRC and to assess the environmental liabilities.

Automated Ex-Situ Bioremediation – Verona Gasworks

admin — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:12:34 +0000

Bioremediation is a technique with good sustainability credentials. Ex-situ bioremediation comes in several guises and the specific form of ex-situ bioremediation that Ecologia use is Biopiles. Biopiles are engineered piles of soil that include active aeration of the soil using a vacuum blower, collection of leachate and allow the abatement of VOC’s possible by
capturing the extracted gases. Biopiles operate very quietly with comparatively little operation and maintenance required.

Air Sparging – Norwich, Norfolk

admin — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:10:31 +0000

Ecologia was contracted to remediate a residential property just outside Norwich after an attempted theft of domestic heating oil from an above ground oil storage tank. This resulted in approximately 1,900 litres of kerosene impacting the underlying soils and groundwater.