Beyond breathing life into your walls, we also attempt to take the poison out of your garden soil, all in a bid to make the environment safe for you and your family. The challenge of widespread soil contamination in New York is a huge one. Public and private researchers alike have published numerous reports that …
A brief overview of soil remediation techniques. Soil remediation is the reduction of contaminant concentrations within the soil. The goal of soil remediation is to bring the contaminants down to a level that is suitable for use. For example, if the soil in your backyard is too contaminated to grow anything, you will have to …
If you are having trouble growing plants in a particular soil, there is a chance that soil has been depleted. Soil depletion can happen for a number of different reasons. The first reason is that the water can become saline due to excess salts. Chemicals can also negatively affect soil. If too many agricultural chemicals …
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An article about the adverse effects of soil lead contamination on children’s health was recently published on WNYC. As a green builder involved in garden soil lead remediation this was very interesting to us. Perhaps it is the spring weather driving children outdoors in droves, but Eco Brooklyn has been receiving a number of inquiries …
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Eco Brooklyn is gearing up for its Spring Soil Remediation Projects. A potential client has sent us their Soil Testing Report and it was time to refresh our knowledge on key components of soil contamination and remediation. The level of contamination in their report will require root barriers and the addition of six inches of …
Many Brooklyn homeowners have inherited a common problem: contaminated backyards. This is a result of over 100 years of garbage incineration, car fumes and toxic paint. In New York, soil is deemed contaminated if there are more than 400 ppm of lead present in the soil (in Euro the maximum is 100ppm!). A few months …
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The New York area has a lot of brownstones with backs yards. What a lot of people don’t know is that those back yards are contaminated. As a New York soil remediation company we’ve become pretty obsessed with this. It is alarming how many yards come up high in heavy metals, especially lead. Anything below …
Spring gardening is upon us and as a New York soil remediation company we are getting a lot of calls from clients wanting to remove lead contaminated soil from their back yards. We just finished a job last week. The clients had a beautiful garden in the back yard of their brownstone in Bedford Stuyvesant. …
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Eco Brooklyn does soil remediation and does its best to keep on top of the lead based remediation topics. Here are some links I got from the “leadnet” listserve (hosted by the national center for healthy housing www.nchh.org) in a conversation about lead and growing vegetables in soil. http://cru.cahe.wsu.edu/CEPublications/eb1884/eb1884.pdf http://www.umass.edu/plsoils/soiltest/lead1.htm “Sources, Sinks, And Exposure Pathways of Lead …
Have you ever wondered what toxic sites are in your neighborhood? Do you unknowingly live next door to an abandoned toxic dump? Here is a site that can give you some clues. It is called ToxicTargeting.com and lists all the recorded environmental activity in New York State. You can type in your address and see all the …
