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.
Several GES offices took time out to celebrate their hard work and enjoy the outdoors together before the summer season came to a close. The outings ranged from taking in a baseball game to taking on the rapids during a tubing trip. One thing is for sure; our teams sure know how to have a good time.
Many GES offices celebrate with similar team outings throughout the year to recognize the hard work that goes into our success. Keep an eye out for future GES team events and outings.
On August 21, 2017, skies darkened from Oregon to South Carolina in the first total solar eclipse visible from coast to coast across the United States in 99 years. So what do you do when your office sits along the Path of Totality?
GES’s Baton Rouge, Louisiana office hosted its Second Annual Crawfish Boil. The event brings together GES employees, partners, and clients to enjoy a classic Louisiana tradition.
Client Challenge
The gopher tortoise is a protected keystone species with a pivotal role to play in their native communities of the southeastern U.S. In alignment with a pipeline company’s commitment to environmentally responsible and sustainable operations, an endangered species assessment survey was needed prior to beginning planned work along an existing pipeline’s right of way.
GES sent several presenters to the 2018 Battelle Chlorinated Conference. The bi-annual event is one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive meetings on the application of innovative technologies and approaches for characterization, monitoring and management of chlorinated and complex remediation sites. Couldn't make the conference? Our presentations are available for download below.