Honeywell applied the rigorous and well-documented Six Sigma quality-improvement approach to the complex, highly heterogeneous, and mission-critical process of remedial site environmental data management to achieve a sea change in terms of data quality, environmental risk reduction, and overall process cost reduction.
Groundwater data has been collected at environmental sites for more than 30 years. Despite the prevalence of this information, allowing individuals other than the members of the project team access to data has been a cumbersome undertaking.
Bio-SpargeSM remediation technology has been used on a refined petroleum pipeline project site in the Phoenix area. The client collaborated with MCC Technologies (MCC) and engineers now associated with Locus Technologies (Locus), to use their Bio-SpargeSM bioremediation technology to create and sustain an in-situ bioreactor to remediate soil and groundwater that were contaminated by a refined petroleum products pipeline release.
Tens of thousands of sites across the country are known to contain hazardous substances. Many pose a threat to human health and the environment. Why are investigations of hazardous waste sites so costly and time-consuming? And why have so few sites been cleaned up to date?
Engineers and geologists have better things to do than run down all the various bits of information needed to keep a site moving toward closure and monitoring. And, in engineering offices, Web services are a leading candidate to provide them with easy access to all kinds of data.