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We tracked each site from the day of the notice to proceed (NTP) to the submittal of reports. Detailed stand-alone documentation -- highlighting State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) exemptions -- was produced promptly and delivered to the client to meet its regulatory requirements. ATC teamed with a local cultural resources firm to obtain SHPO approvals as needed. Additional services included geotechnical and foundation investigations, as well as wetland and wildlife permitting.
Situation: A petroleum client was preparing to close facilities over a 300+ square-mile area that operated from the early 1960’s to 2005: production wells, storage tanks, pumping stations and pipelines. The transaction was part of a process to return leases for crude production facilities to the landowner.
Results: ATC helped this petroleum client significantly reduce its liability and risk and achieve a documented cost savings of $480,000. The strategic approach included development and implementation of a Phase II Due Diligence effort. By leveraging refining and transportation business unit relationships, ATC helped the client reduce transportation costs and eliminate tipping fees for crude-impacted soils. Regulatory closure was granted to 22 of the 23 identified sites.
Situation: A five-acre wooded municipal site was targeted for redevelopment. The plan: build a small sewage treatment plant to address the city’s sewage-overflow problem. The facility would hold three 1.5-million gallon tanks in which high-flow sewage would be held and/or treated on-site. This was a classic Brownfield. It had remained vacant since its municipal well was closed 20 years ago, its groundwater affected by an adjacent property under remediation.
Results: ATC helped the client save approximately $260,000 in waste disposal costs by managing impacted materials on-site. Our concurrent plan of environmental and geotechnical drilling saved an additional $10,000 and ensured consistent and representative data collection. Further, we developed site-specific exposure models and associated human-health risk calculations to facilitate local on-site waste management. Among the payoffs: the development of engineering controls to mitigate exposure pathways. We implemented excavation and off-site disposition methods to remediate areas of environmental impact, primarily from residual 55-gallon drums, pesticides and paint waste. ATC continues to monitor construction and environmental impact and perform associated materials testing.