Rich Evans, Senior VP, Technical Functions, and Vince Passaro, VP Marketing, were recently interviewed by Commercial UAV news to discussion how small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) are changing the landscape of how linear infrastructure can be inspected. Their discussion with Commercial UAV news is presented in this article https://www.commercialuavnews.com/regulations/ges-adds-value-to-inspections-with-bvlos-waiver
The Environmental Business Journal®1 (EBJ), a business research publication which provides high value strategic business intelligence to the environmental industry1, honored Groundwater & Environmental Services, Inc. (GES) with a 2021 EBJ Business Achievement Awards for Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS Drone Operation, under the Category of Technology Merit.
Groundwater & Environmental Services, Inc. demonstrated its commitment to environmental stewardship by achieving Wildlife Habitat Council (WHC) Conservation Certification for its confidential client in Hopewell, VA.
GES’ air quality team assisted with regulatory compliance issues, emissions inventory, and stack emissions testing at a manufacturing facility in New Jersey that uses a metalizing process that applies a thin film of a shiny metallic film between several layers of protective coatings on the surface of non-metallic objects. The process uses a highly soluble silver nitrate solution in a spray booth application. Silver nitrate is listed on both the Right to Know Hazardous Substance List and Special Health Hazard Substance List in New Jersey.
GES’ air quality professionals assisted with the preparation and submittal of a Facility Wide Risk Assessment (FWRA) as part of the requirement for their Title V operating permit renewal.
GES has supported the permitting of over 60 emergency generators over the past two years. These generators provide reliability to hospitals, telecommunication and data centers, bio-technology and research, schools, residential complexes, and businesses that require an independent source of electrical power in the event of loss of normal line power supply. Both for life safety requirements and avoidance of production losses, this source of continual power requires air permits and depending on the size of the unit, emission controls.
Challenge
The client, a leading supplier of high-quality building-materials, operates one of the largest cement plants west of the Mississippi River. The site is located in one of 35 Air Districts in California. The state required transparent accounting of facilities that release toxic contaminants into the atmosphere.
GES provided permitting and engineering support for our client’s new startup sterilization process in Texas. The new startup used state of the art equipment for sterilizing medical packaging and devices with a process that emits ozone.GES completed the online permit requirements of The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). The new source required modeling and demonstration of best available control technology (BACT) and included a cost benefit assessment.