The situation
A warehouse owner discovered their tenant had secretly run an electroplating operation for over ten years, and had been storing hazardous waste left over from another facility they'd already closed. The tenant left the country but kept paying rent, so no one knew the site had been abandoned until a regulator found it.
The challenge
Over five thousand drums of hazardous waste were sitting on the property. GeoTech worked directly with EPA Region 4 and local regulators, sampled the waste stream, negotiated the disposal contracts, and took the site through full assessment, remediation, and closure.
- Sample the waste
- Liaise with EPA Region 4
- Negotiate disposal
- Remediate & close
The outcome
A project budgeted at $2,000,000 was closed out in eleven months, for under $1,500,000. That's Advisory when the stakes are real: not managing a problem, solving it.
Results reflect this property's conditions and scope. Other properties will differ.
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A warehouse owner discovered their tenant had secretly run an electroplating operation for over ten years, and had been storing hazardous waste left over from another facility they'd already closed. The tenant left the country but kept paying rent, so no one knew the site had been abandoned until a regulator found it.
We were brought in to make sense of it: over five thousand drums of hazardous waste sitting on the property.
We worked directly with EPA Region 4 and local regulators, sampled the waste stream, negotiated the disposal contracts, and took the site through full assessment, remediation, and closure.
Budget was two million dollars. We closed it out in eleven months, for under one and a half.
That's Advisory when the stakes are real, not managing a problem. Solving it.
