Client Challenge
Over the past several years, many major oil companies have vigorously pursued strategies to reduce the overall cost of ownership and increase cost certainty related to their downstream petroleum environmental portfolios. These strategies – each tailored to match the company’s business objectives and needs – frequently utilize some variant of a performance-based contracting (PBC) approach.
Client Challenge
A multinational gas and electric company with significant presence in the Northeast is responsible for the environmental management of former manufactured gas plant (MGP) sites inherited through business transactions. A portfolio of 21 MGP sites across upstate New York is managed under a long-term remediation program for greater cost effectiveness and quality assurance. Long-term operation, maintenance, and monitoring (OM&M) of engineering and institutional controls is required for regulatory compliance.
Client Challenge
An aging groundwater treatment plant at a former chemical manufacturing facility was no longer effective due to excessive fouling, downtime, and operational expenses. The facility owner, a global chemical company, has worked closely with state regulators to bring the site into compliance, with much of the property now a natural area and environmental center. This emphasis on environmental responsibility spurred the treatment system replacement project.
Client Challenge
Newtown Creek is a four-mile tributary of the East River, intersecting the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. Its water and sediments are impacted by decades of heavy urban industrial use. As a Superfund Site, a consortium of potentially responsible parties (Newtown Creek Group) is conducting a multi-phase remedial investigation and feasibility study (RI/FS) under a US EPA administrative consent order.