Cleaning up dirt… that’s what’s going on at the Phillips 66 Santa Maria oil refinery on the Nipomo Mesa. The contaminated soil is going to be excavated, which means dug up and moved to a landfill out ...

EAST PALESTINE — Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues to oversee the soil excavation from beneath the tracks at the site of the train derailment. Nineteen hundred feet of rail in one ...

Recently, the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) provided notice that over 15,000 tons of toxic soil was excavated from the Ventura SoCalGas gas compressor site and trucked through ...

PLAINS TWP. — A couple of third-generation farmers are worried that a proposed top soil excavating operation adjacent to their farmland will endanger their livelihood. “The (top soil) pit in itself ...

When you're planning any construction project, understanding the difference between residential and commercial digging ...

The key to safe excavations between 5 and 20 feet deep is that the work be supervised closely by a trained, competent person. (Trenches 20 feet or deeper require a safety system devised by a ...

Norfolk Southern on Feb. 22, the day before the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released its preliminary report on the Feb. 3 East Palestine, Ohio, derailment, announced that it will, in a ...

With construction projects, there are multiple risks to consider when on a jobsite. Let’s look at two of the most dangerous jobs—trenching and excavation. In 2022, 39 people died while doing trenching ...

PIKETON — Crews at the Portsmouth Site have kicked off another phase of excavating a legacy groundwater plume at the Portsmouth Site to provide a substantial source of impacted soil for use at the ...

When: Mount Joy Township supervisors meeting on April 18. What happened: Supervisors declined to accept a petition from Waste Management, owner of the Lancaster Landfill at Milton Grove, to amend the ...