Client Challenge
Newtown Creek is a four-mile tributary of the East River, intersecting the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. Its water and sediments are impacted by decades of heavy urban industrial use. As a Superfund Site, a consortium of potentially responsible parties (Newtown Creek Group) is conducting a multi-phase remedial investigation and feasibility study (RI/FS) under a US EPA administrative consent order.
Client Challenge
Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point is an active 29,000-acre jet base with a 75-year aviation history, an ongoing mission to provide a combat-ready aerial striking force, and a massive runway system with complex operations. The base has a comprehensive environmental remediation program in place.
Client Challenge
The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) entered a vacant property, known as former Medina’s Garage, into its orphan site program. Characterization activities determined that a historical plume of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) originating at the service station had migrated off site, beneath a four-lane roadway and adjacent vacant properties.
Client Challenge
An oil and gas company, dedicated to responsible energy exploration and production, responded quickly and decisively to a natural gas well control incident. Due to a period of record-breaking rains, a primary containment wall failed, causing a release of 10,000 gallons of well fluid. The production fluid, mixing with rainwater, flowed off the well pad and into nearby pasture, pond, and creek.
Client Challenge
A US-based energy company invests in the development of unconventional onshore oil and natural gas assets. Its commitment to responsible and safe operations requires collection of voluminous data related to drinking and domestic water quality at potential and approved natural gas drilling sites. Data are collected prior to any drilling activities to establish a baseline of water quality prior to well construction and operation.
Client Challenge
A global integrated energy company has invested in the development of natural gas resources in the Marcellus and Utica shale plays of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia. The company’s commitment to safe and responsible development stresses that operations at well pads, impoundments, tank pads, and pipeline facilities are completed with respect for the communities and protection of the environment.
Client Challenge
A US-based producer of oil and natural gas required establishment of a multi-state groundwater quality database to support their drilling operations. The massive five-state program was designed to meet regulatory and liability protection requirements. The company was challenged to manage and properly glean from data collected, as there were commonly multiple sources of parcel data and overlapping of parcels identified for sampling during different stages of the drilling program.
Client Challenge
An independent oil and natural gas company is committed to operating in a safe and sustainable manner across its operations. The company has relied on GES to provide an array of consulting and field services related to health, safety, and environmental compliance at shale play development sites in the U.S. When an overflow occurred from production wastewater tanks at a Marcellus Shale play development site, approximately 1,000 gallons of flowback water impacted on- and off-site soil and groundwater.
Client Challenge
The property owner of a former chemical manufacturing facility sought regulatory approval to implement site reuse plans that included restoring and reusing an on-site warehouse and distribution center. A remediation system had been operating on site, but was no longer effective in reducing contaminant concentrations. The owner sought regulatory compliance and added value to this commercial property.
Client Challenge
The business plan of this multinational home improvement retailer includes purchase and reuse of diverse properties to expand their enterprise. Environmental consulting services are required to ensure safe and responsible purchase, redevelopment, and ongoing retailing operations. GES has supported this retail company with varied environmental services across the US for more than a decade.