BIOREMEDIATION, PHYTOREMEDIATION and ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

Phytoremediation, followed by bioremediation of the Cornish Concrete Products Factory at Bissoe. (In the background is the Remains of the Bissoe Arsenic Factory - one of the most contaminated sites in Europe.)

We have been responsible for a number of successful bespoke environmental enhancement operations including bank retention op erations, unique systems for irrigation and water control and a wide range of council approved planting and phytoremediation schemes on contaminated sites. All these schemes have cost considerably below any alternative operations without any compromise, (indeed in most cases a more attractive finish). Pip Howard, Silviculturalist with a specialist interest in phytoremediation has several years of experience in determining the correct trees and management system for your land based on the soils and underlying geology.

 Environmental Engineering Operations:

EPV Erosion Preventative Vegetation suitable for all types of soil up to 60 degrees.

Greenwalling Planting using a grid system, with overlaying wooden or metal construction, (depending on slope and soils), to create an attractive vegetation covered wall alternative.

Saturation Drainage Drainage systems for poor, dry soils and steep slopes, designed to slow run off dramatically ensuring erosion preventation and nutrient capture.

 Sump drains Designed to halt run off on more level areas, taking it to ground and allowing penetration into surrounding poor or clayey soils using mycorrizal technology. 

Extensive research into phytoremediation and biomass production has enabled us to develop a system where landowners can not only remediate their land cheaply; but also gain an income from future cropping.

If your land has been identified as contaminated we can supply a range of very cost effective packages, which will save having to remove the soil. Average savings are 50% cost and up to 70% reduction in CO2 emissions. 

Bunding techniques, erosion preventative measures, microbial treatments for hydrocarbon contamination and soil treatment with mycorriza based supersoils can all be used to create a site specific bioremediation package.

Mycorrizal fungi colonisation of plant roots, the left hand pine sapling is the treated plant.

 info@cornwalllandscaping.co.uk

01208 815553