SES has conducted over a 2,000 what would best be defined as standard environmental projects (Phase I and II ESAs, UST Closures Assessments, UST and Hazardous Waste Assessments and Remediation, etc.). However, the company has also been involved with high profile and unique projects to include the following:
- Emergency Response And Abatement of a gasoline release to a city sanitary sewer system from a bulk storage plant. The release occurred in the 1930s in an area were a normally shallow water table was raised to within two feet of the ground surface during spring rains 70 years hence. Abatement included rerouting the sewer away from the plume and installation of a groundwater curtain to prevent off-site migration.
- Mercury detected in soil during a Phase II ESA threatened to prevent the transfer of a commercial property that represented the bulk of a family retirement fund. The owner contracted SES to identify the source and to work with regulators towards a resolution. A review of obscure historic sources suggested that affected soil was located where a house had been taken and razed by the government during a road widening project. A soil boring assessment confirmed that the mercury was contained to what turned out to be adjacent public property. Regulators removed the site from their records list and the site was sold at fair market value within 30 days of project initiation..
- Years of operation had left a popular shooting clay range covered with lead shot. The owners were concerned that lead weathering may have contaminated on site water systems and local waterways and they contracted SES to conduct an assessment and prepare an abatement plan. Results of the assessment suggested that the shot had oxidized and had yet to ionize or affect surface and groundwater resources. A company that specializes in lead shot recovery was contracted to remove the mass of spent shot from the range. And, the cost of abatement was off set by selling recovered lead to a local metal recycler.
- SES has conducted assessments of apartment and single family residential properties to determine if they have been used as Clandestine Methyl Amphetamine Laboratories. When identified, Meth residue has been abated using a combination of soil and building decontamination, partial building demolition and remodeling. With proper assessment, SES has been able to contain costs and to provide defensible abatement documentation.
