When a global producer of insulation, roofing and fiberglass materials decided to decommission and demolish a 70-year-old, two-story fiberglass smelter furnace, it knew who to call on to clean up the years of dust that had compiled around, above and below the furnace beforehand. As the central states’ foremost dust cleaning expert, Environmental Works, Inc. …
EWI Tests Superfund Site for Vapor Intrusion Using Sub-Slab Sampling Technique
On contaminated sites, concern over exposure to harmful chemicals can expand from groundwater and soil to indoor air. Such air pollution is called “vapor intrusion,” and “occurs when there is a migration of vapor-forming chemicals from any subsurface source (soil, water) into an overlying building,” according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
