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.
It was a momentous occasion on September 14, as the public water system in Intercourse, Pennsylvania was dedicated from PADEP to Leacock Township. The PADEP held a press event to announce this achievement. GES is proud to have been involved in every aspect of this project to deliver clean and safe drinking water to the Leacock Township Community.
This past August 30, the US District Court of Arizona vacated and remanded the Navigable Waters Protection Rule (NWPR) in the case of Pascua Tribe v. US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In response, on September 3, EPA and the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) announced that they were halting implementation of the NWPR and would interpret “waters of the United States” (WOTUS) consistent with pre-2015 regulatory guidance until further notice.