{"id":27158,"date":"2023-11-13T17:15:59","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T17:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=27158"},"modified":"2023-11-13T17:16:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T17:16:02","slug":"in-situ-pfas-treatment-technology-wins-europes-most-prestigious-remediation-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/international-news\/in-situ-pfas-treatment-technology-wins-europes-most-prestigious-remediation-award\/%20","title":{"rendered":"In Situ PFAS Treatment Technology Wins Europe\u2019s Most Prestigious Remediation Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

REGENESIS<\/a>\u00ae, in conjunction with Mott MacDonald, a UK-based engineering consulting firm were awarded the \u201cBest Application of Remediation Technologies\u201d at the Brownfield Awards 2023 ceremony held live in Manchester England on the 1st of November. The award recognized the use of a patented, advanced colloidal activated carbon technology called \u201cPlumeStop\u00ae\u201d to treat PFAS-contaminated groundwater in-place (in situ) on a private airfield slated for redevelopment. The use of the PlumeStop technology eliminated the PFAS risk to the environment without costly and inefficient pumping of groundwater.\u00c2\u00a0 This approach also eliminates the continuous generation and handling of PFAS waste and reduces the generation of greenhouse gases by an estimated 95%+.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winning the award for \u2018Best application of remediation\ntechnologies\u2019 at the Brownfield Awards 2023 ceremony held live in Manchester\nthe 1st of November, the judges called it, \u201cAn excellent example of\norganizations working collaboratively to remediate a site where a chalk aquifer\nwas impacted by PFAS.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Julie Southall, Associate Environmental Engineer at Mott\nMacDonald said, \u201cThe PlumeStop treatment zone has been fully operational since\nOctober 2022. Since then, all target PFAS compounds, including PFOS and PFOA,\nhave consistently remained below the detection limit. This ongoing success\nserves as a testament to the solution’s effectiveness in mitigating PFAS risks\nto the environment and human health, and this has helped the landowner divest a\nportion of the site for redevelopment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith no water pumped to the surface, no ongoing energy use or maintenance cost and no creation of waste, this passive environmental solution has a lot to offer\u201d, Gareth Leonard, Managing Director of REGENESIS in Europe, explains. \u201cAlthough this award is specific to this first PFAS groundwater remediation in the UK, the approach itself has been field-proven worldwide for over seven years and is backed up by multiple third-party<\/a> scientific articles. Furthermore, an extensive independent sustainability<\/a> comparison study undertaken for another PFAS-contaminated airport site, shows that compared to two types of \u2018pump and treat\u2019 methods, the PlumeStop treatment method is 65% cheaper and has a >95% smaller carbon footprint.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue posed by PFAS (short for Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl\nSubstances) is that they are a large, complex group of synthetic chemicals used\nwidely around the world for their water repellent properties. Linked to\ncancers, reproductive damage, immunological problems, infant and child\ndevelopment disruption and organ disease, it forms a significant human health\nrisk. Also known as \u2018forever chemicals\u2019, because of their near\nindestructibility, PFAS spreads fast and wide in the environment through our\ngroundwater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PFAS has been identified in the drinking water of over 200 million Americans and is a serious health concern globally. The Forever Project<\/a>, a European collaboration of investigative journalists and mainstream media, has recently brought the scale and character of the PFAS pollution to the attention of the public across Europe and the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mott MacDonald carried out an initial Remediation Options\nSustainability Assessment, which included each option\u2019s environmental, social,\nand economic factors. The PlumeStop barrier approach came out as the preferred\noption as compared to a pump and treat system also considered. The PlumeStop\ntreatment barrier approach used at the UK private airfield, requires no water\npumped to the surface nor does it create a secondary PFAS waste stream, and as\na result is able to offer a far more sustainable and effective solution. They\nthen worked closely with REGENESIS and the landowner to devise the best\nsolution to the site.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given the scale, complexity, and abundance of\nPFAS-contaminated sites across the world, this ground-breaking solution\ntogether with the excellent teamwork exemplified in this award-winning project,\noffers a pragmatic and sustainable solution for dealing with PFAS in the\nenvironment, helping to make way for site redevelopment in a sustainable and\neco-conscious manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

REGENESIS\u00ae, in conjunction with Mott MacDonald, a UK-based engineering consulting firm were awarded the \u201cBest Application of Remediation Technologies\u201d at the Brownfield Awards 2023 ceremony held live in Manchester England on the 1st of November. The award recognized the use of a patented, advanced colloidal activated carbon technology called \u201cPlumeStop\u00ae\u201d to treat PFAS-contaminated groundwater in-place […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27159,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27158\/revisions\/27159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}