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- Shoreline Clean-Up
- Given the difficulties of cleaning up oil at sea, many oil spills result in contamination of shorelines. The oil that reaches the coast generally has the greatest environmental and economic impact. It also determines to a large extent the political and public perception of the scale of the incident, as...
- White papers
- Managing Nutrients With Property Rights
- Nutrient use in agriculture has increased land productivity. It has also been blamed for environmental degradation. Nutrient management strives to maximize agricultural output, with minimal environmental externalities. The Nutrient Management Act NMA is a central planning solution implemented to prevent water contamination by restricting nutrient use and imposing requirements for...
- White papers 2006-10-06
- Protecting Food Service Companies and Consumers From Food Contamination
- Most food manufacturing and food service companies in the past have concentrated their risk management programs on property, general liability risks and workers' compensation. However, not until recently have they begun to better examine the real catastrophic risks they face in the event of a product contamination. In this context...
- White papers 2005-10-10
- Tranguch Gasoline Site Case History
- This paper and its presenters look at the critical aspects of gasoline leak case as the investigation went from subsurface soil and ground water contamination impacting surface water to the contamination of indoor air. It examines the impact of preferential pathways that include sanitary and storm sewers as well as...
- White papers 2004-05-26
- Case Studies Analysis: Environmental Stigma and Monitored Natural Attenuation
- This article addresses the use of environmental case studies to analyze the extent to which contamination may adversely impact property value through the effect previously referred to and defined as environmental stigma. There can be three property value effects that may result from environmental contamination: cost effects, or reductions for...
- White papers 2004-04-23
- Methods and Techniques for Contaminated Property Valuation
- Appraisers who specialize in analyzing the impacts of environmental contamination on real property interests have developed specialized methods and techniques that adapt standard appraisal approaches to these assignments. The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of professionally accepted methods and techniques for valuing contaminated properties or estimating...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- Water for Dairy Cattle
- This fact sheet discusses the importance of water intake for dairy cattle, and how to make sure they consume enough. Water availability and quality are important to animal health and productivity. Limiting water availability to cattle will lower production rapidly and severely. The most common water quality problems affecting livestock...
- White papers 2003-08-01
- Managing Mold Contamination: Best Practices For Claim Adjusters
- Insurance companies have been inundated with residential and commercial mold claims. For many claim adjusters, the past few years have been a trial by fire, a crash course in managing mold contamination cases. Despite the insurance industry’s success in writing out or limiting payout for mold claims, it seems that,...
- White papers 2003-07-01
- Complex Electrical Resistivity for Monitoring DNAPL Contamination
- This paper indicates, at best, a low sensitivity of the complex electrical resistivity method to organic contamination in rocks and soils. This reduces the short-term prospects of using complex resistivity as an effective technique to directly detect organic contamination. However, as noise suppression techniques improve and further understanding of electrical...
- White papers 2003-06-14
- Influence of Slat Material on Hatching Egg Sanitation and Slat Disinfection
- Where an egg is laid, has significant influence on the degree of surface bacterial contamination. Bacterial counts on shell surfaces from the eggs of broiler breeder hens housed in partial slat pens revealed that the eggs laid in litter material (1.75 × 109 cfu/mL) were significantly dirtier than eggs laid...
- White papers 2003-03-06
- Buying & Selling Contaminated Properties: Equations For Success
- Significant opportunities continue to exist in today's commercial real estate market for the purchase of environmentally contaminated properties at a price substantially below the real impact of the contamination on the property's value. The key aspect to taking advantage of the opportunities presented by environmentally contaminated properties is conducting the...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- TQM (Total Quality Management): Managing Quality, Not Just Controlling or Measuring It
- "This article is about Quality Assurance which is the most formidable and critical challenge facing producers of live biological organisms, whether produced for research or for commercial use. “Horror Stories” abound of experiences with production contamination, host material problems, employee-caused contamination, transit survival, etc. The results are loss of...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Effects of Environmental Contamination on Real Estate: A Literature Review
- The literature reviewed in this article reflects the degree to which practitioners and academics are having difficulty in arriving at consistent findings as to the effect of environmental contamination on real estate. The valuation literature in this category deals with appraisal methods, but does not develop a consensus view. The...
- White papers 2002-01-29
- Environmental Contamination And Industrial Real Estate Prices
- This article examines the effects of environmental contamination on the sales prices of industrial properties. Two general questions are addressed. The first is the extent to which sales prices may be impacted by contamination. The second is whether sales price effects due to contamination persist subsequent to the remediation of...
- White papers 2002-01-01
- Managing Above Ground Storage Tanks to Prevent Contamination of Drinking Water
- Above ground storage tanks ASTs are tanks or other containers that are above ground, partially buried, bunkered, or in a subterranean vault. These can include floating fuel systems. This fact sheet focuses on the management of facilities with ASTs to prevent contamination of drinking water sources (ground water and surface...
- White papers 2001-07-01
- The Effect of Previous Environmental Contamination on Industrial Real Estate Prices
- The central question addressed in this paper involves the effect of previous contamination on the price of industrial properties. Most empirical studies the effects of contamination and other adverse environmental conditions have focused on single-family residential real estate. The limited empirical research on industrial property impacts appearing does not directly...
- White papers 2001-04-01
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- Location, location: a quick lesson in how offsets can backfire
- YOU DON'T HAVE to leave the United States for an object lesson in how an emissions offset system can go wrong. Consider Vernon, California: The tiny city and its neighboring communities have some of the highest air pollution levels in the Los Angeles basin--and it could get worse because of...
- Articles 2008-07-01
- Parasite found in drinking water
- Home News IN BRIEF *Water supplies contaminated with a parasite might not be safe for weeks, Anglian Water said last night. Customers have been told to boil tap water after cryptosporidium, a parasite which causes stomach upsets, was found in samples. The affected area, Northampton, Daventry and...
- Articles 2008-06-26
- Market Pulse Breaking News Alert for Thursday, June 26, 2008: PRRY - Planet Resource Recovery Reports Single Well Treatment With PetroLuxus(TM) MMMF Maintains Increased Oil Production Output!
- Market Pulse News Alert for this AM, Stocks toWatch are: Planet Resource Recovery, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: PRRY), HydrogenHybrid Technologies Inc. (OTCBB: HYHY), Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL)and Sequenom Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM). Investors need to be watching Planet Resource Recovery, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: PRRY) this AM! Planet Resource Recovery is the developer and manufacturerof...
- Articles 2008-06-26
- Kroger, Recall Your E. coli Contaminated Meat and Tell The Public Who Supplied It, Says William D. Marler, Food Safety Attorney
- SEATTLE -- With the Michigan State Health Department linking Kroger ground beef to many of the illnesses in Michigan which have also been linked to illnesses in Ohio, Kroger must recall all possibly contaminated ground beef said Seattle food safety attorney William D. Marler. In 2007 companies voluntarily...
- Articles 2008-06-25
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