Services & Specialties
From first site visit to release of liability.
AEM assembles multi-disciplined, project-specific teams under senior direction — identifying environmental liability, meeting the regulator's documentation format, justifying the remedy on cost and schedule, and getting to no further action.
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Assessment & Characterization
Establishing what is actually in the ground, to a standard that survives regulatory and legal scrutiny.
- Phase I and Phase II environmental site assessments
- Site characterization services
- Sampling and analysis plan preparation
- Work plan implementation and data documentation
- Storage tank assessment and removal planning
- Environmental discharge identification and control
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Remedy Selection & Design
Choosing a remedy that is technically sound, buildable, affordable and acceptable to both the regulator and the community.
- Remedy evaluation, selection and design under RCRA, CERCLA and TSCA
- Treatment alternatives evaluation and permitting
- Design, cost estimation, plans and specifications
- Remedial contractor selection and implementation management
- Remedy implementation oversight
- Commercial TSD facility selection
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Regulatory & Closure
Getting to a release of liability — the outcome the client is actually paying for.
- Pennsylvania Act 2 liability release compliance
- Brownfields program direction
- RCRA permits and SPCC plan preparation
- Regulatory negotiation and interface
- Prescribed regulatory documentation format
- Hazardous site emergency response planning
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Review, QA & Testimony
Senior-level scrutiny of someone else's work — for management, for counsel, or for the court.
- Senior-level technical consultation to management and counsel
- Programmatic and data quality assurance and quality control
- Second opinion and peer review services
- Critical review of environmental data
- Commercial hazardous waste facility audits
- Expert testimony, reports and depositions
Specialties
Contaminants and settings AEM has spent decades on.
- Contaminated sediments
- Freshwater and marine sediment remediation — dredging, capping and monitored natural recovery — backed by a fifteen-year database of over 120 sediment projects across the U.S. and Canada.
- Chromium
- Over twenty years on chromium chemistry in soils: speciation, analytical method development, bench-scale and pilot treatability testing, peer-reviewed publication and patent applications.
- PCBs
- PCB transport and fate, cleanup levels and disposal approvals across pipeline systems, industrial sites and river sediments — including testimony on historical handling practice.
- Brownfields & legacy sites
- Sites carrying VOCs, SVOCs, PCBs, pesticides, dioxins and furans, and TAL metals, taken through PA Act 2 to a release of liability.
- Immediate-threat sites
- Sites presenting an immediate threat to human health or the environment, where response planning and interim measures come before study.
- Data & facility audit
- Critical review of environmental data, evaluation of environmental response actions, and audits of commercial hazardous waste facilities.
- Program direction for Brownfields sites and sites subject to PA Act 2
- Site characterization and comparison of analytical data to remediation criteria
- Identification of viable remedial action alternatives
- Evaluation of performance, constructability, reliability and cost of remedial options
- Assessment of land-use objectives and community acceptance for remediated property
- Programmatic and data quality assurance and quality control
- Design, cost estimation and preparation of plans and specifications
- Remedial contractor selection and implementation management
- Hazardous site emergency response planning, coordination and implementation
- Technical consultation for strategic planning and program implementation
- QA review for construction surveillance and conformance to remedy specification
- Expert testimony for matters in litigation, and peer review services