One of the qualities that I have always found to be truly unique to GES throughout the course of our history is that we remain true to who we are. In other words, we have remained grounded. We’ve always seemed to have a strong sense of identity and purpose, a shared belief that has guided us to where we are today. And after more than 30 years, that belief is stronger than ever.
Client Challenge
A stream isolation/groundwater extraction and treatment system (GWTS) is in operation at the Galaxy-Spectron Superfund site, a former solvent recycling facility. A large industrial PRP Group is responsible for environmental compliance and cleanup, under US EPA and state regulatory oversight. Uninterrupted system operation is required to keep contaminated groundwater from reaching an adjacent stream. Groundwater is passively collected in a series of sumps connected to perforated piping located beneath the stream liner.
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 pipeline company, undergoing expansion and improvement of its system, was installing a new 35-mile length of terminal feeder pipeline. The client became concerned about their construction contractors’ commitment to the use of behavior-based safety tools when several construction safety issues arose, and determined to take proactive steps before a more significant incident occurred.
Client Challenge
A major energy pipeline developer embarked on the construction of a 65-mile segment of a crude-oil pipeline through points in the Delaware Basin. The project required oversight from a third-party environmental inspector to ensure construction activities maintained compliance with environmental regulations, permit requirements, mitigation agreements, and other commitments. Speed to market was a critical project success factor for this client.
Client Challenge
This refining complex, along the banks of the Mississippi River, is a 107-acre facility with operations that include crude fractionation, catalytic cracking, and a hydrogen plant operation. With increased production demand, the refinery owner-operator required closure of an existing 2.9-acre wastewater treatment lagoon to make way for the construction of a new water treatment system on the reclaimed land.
Client Challenge
Situated in a major metropolitan area, this refinery operates 24/7/365 with more than 800 employees. The facility, which produces transportation fuels, petrochemical feedstocks, and fuel oils, has active shipping, trucking, pipeline, and rail operations on site. Environmental compliance and remediation needs are expansive and varied. GES supports the facility’s compliance program with a dedicated program team providing diverse environmental consulting and technical field services.
Client Challenge
A national energy company has a comprehensive environmental remediation strategy to address the impacts of historic coal fly ash disposal. The approach at a former coal ash placement pit was expanded to include a new groundwater extraction (GWE) system to prevent impacted groundwater from migrating to nearby residential communities.
Client Challenge
A former 130-acre pharmaceutical campus, which had included headquarter offices, research and development, and manufacturing facilities, was closed following 80 years of operation. The multinational healthcare company is motivated to maximize property value and to satisfy the needs of local municipalities and investors to facilitate a smooth property transition to new uses. The environmental strategy, therefore, is to expedite cleanup and attain regulatory closure.
Client Challenge
A secure naval nuclear propulsion research and development complex faced compliance and operational concerns related to an aging spring and seep water treatment system. Regulatory drivers required the treatment of low-level chlorinated volatile organic compounds (CVOCs)-contaminated influent to less than one part per billion, with wide seasonal variations in water flow rates.