GEORGE TAMARO: An Italian innovation, slurry walls were first used in 1949. The Port Authority was very courageous to use them in 1967, since slurry walls had not previously been used to this ...

The barrier surrounding the former Velsicol Chemical Co. plant site in St. Louis will be getting some upgrades. In the early 1980s when the plant was demolished and buried on the 52-acre parcel the ...

Busloads of people toured the Columbia Falls Aluminum Co. Superfund site on June 12 as the company and government officials explained how a slurry wall containment system might work at the site.

In 1978, the former Velsicol Chemical Co. plant in St. Louis was demolished and buried onsite. That included buildings, storage tanks and process piping. The plant had once manufactured a variety of ...

Over 100 feet of dirt was stacked high into the air Wednesday at the Cabot side of the Cabot-Koppers Superfund site, as bulldozers moved around the top of the pile. This is where what's known as a ...

The Coalition for the Clean CFAC will urge the Environmental Protection Agency to consider a different cleanup plan for the old aluminum plant. The EPA's proposed action calls for creating a slurry ...

Steep tuition and vertigo steered George J. Tamaro away from architecture and high-rise engineering, so he went underground—becoming one of construction’s most accomplished “below-grade guys” in a ...