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- 01 August 2019
Groundwater monitoring was required by the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, due to a decommissioned underground storage petroleum storage [...]
- 08 August 2018
The NSW Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) updated the Contaminated Land Management Compliance Statement in July 2018. The purpose of this [...]
- 07 August 2018
BEWARE: Sometimes excavated natural material (ENM) or virgin excavated natural material (VENM) classification and reporting isn’t done right, or it [...]
- 01 August 2018
One uncertainty regarding per‐ and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) is the total oxidisable precursor assay (TOPA). TOPA aims to detect PFAS precursor [...]
- 30 July 2018
Late last year the EPA released updated guidelines for the NSW Site Auditors Scheme with the aim of ensuring proper [...]
- 06 June 2018
iEnvironmental Australia (iEnvi) was contacted to determine whether existing groundwater and surface water dam water quality was suitable for use [...]
- 06 June 2018
Recently iEnvironmental Australia (iEnvi) was contracted by a Sydney western suburbs Council to manage waste contaminated soil at a sports [...]
- 05 June 2018
iEnvi was engaged to develop an operational environmental management plan (OEMP) for an automotive recycling company in south-west Brisbane, Queensland. [...]
- 05 June 2018
iEnvironmental Australia (iEnvi) was recently engaged by an architect firm to conduct a preliminary site investigation on a property they [...]
- 05 June 2018
The Queensland government is introducing a $70 per tonne (and up to $150 per tonne for highly contaminated materials) waste levy [...]
- 05 June 2018
iEnvironmental Australia recently conducted a preliminary site investigation (PSI), soil sampling, and subcontracted a geotechnical investigation for developers as part [...]
- 05 June 2018
Construction environmental management plans (CEMP) are basically the who, what, when and where of on-site environmental management during construction activities. [...]
- 04 June 2018
Dense nonaqueous phase liquids (DNAPL) are a group of halogenated semi-volatiles, non-halogenated semi-volatiles, and halogenated volatiles with a greater density [...]
- 28 May 2018
Light nonaqueous phase liquids (LNAPL), sometimes referred to as phase separated hydrocarbons (PSH), are hydrocarbons that have densities lower than [...]
- 27 May 2018
Since we wrote about the PFAS National Environmental Management Plan (NEMP) in February 2018, and released several PFAS FAQs earlier this year, the [...]
- 25 May 2018
Sydney Water and other government bodies are currently undertaking naturalisation of concrete lined stormwater canals by replacing the bland concrete [...]
- 15 April 2018
Major cost savings can be made with a little extra ingenuity when it comes to managing your property developments, environmental [...]
- 11 April 2018
Changes are on the way. In NSW, the key to planning for the remediation and development of contaminated sites for [...]