Client Challenge
A long-time client and major petroleum marketer is pursuing a real estate transaction that would result in the sale of more than 1,200 active retail service station properties across the United States. As a requirement of the sales agreement, the client needed to conduct a Phase I environmental site assessment (ESA) for each site within an 11-week period. The properties ranged in size and geography, including service stations along major toll roads and interstates, rural roads, and busy, urban locations.
Client Challenge
A former refinery site had been dormant for decades when the owner, a global oil company, sought to prepare the property for sale. The property had widespread elevated concentrations of lead in surface soil resulting from historic oil-treatment processes. The potential presence of the Texas horned lizard, a threatened species, posed a significant risk to escalated remediation costs.
Client Challenge
This active refining facility, located on the bluffs of the Mississippi River, is comprised of thousands of acres and integrated facilities used to produce, store, and transport gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, aviation fuel, lubricating oils, and waxes. The environmental impacts from decades of operation are addressed with an understanding of compliance needs as well as an insight into how to best minimize costs and avoid disruption of round-the-clock operations.
Client Challenge
A global technology leader manages a multi-million-dollar remediation program across the US. These sites reflect diverse historic and current business operations with a wide range of regulatory governance, contaminant risks, and life-cycle maturity. The company has a formal program to ensure that operation, maintenance, and monitoring (OM&M) activities across this portfolio are carried out with adherence to a consistent strategy that combines continuous improvement and a focus on key performance indicators to evaluate ongoing program and project success.
Client Challenge
Elevated concentrations of chlorinated volatile organic compounds (CVOCs) in soil remained in a former perchloroethylene (PCE) and trichloroethylene (TCE) storage area at a former chemical manufacturing plant. Achieving regulatory closure for this area of concern (AOC) under the RCRA Corrective Action program, with no further action determination in this AOC, required a targeted soil cleanup. GES was retained to evaluate potential remedial solutions and to implement a technical and cost-effective alternative.