Projects

International

Proposed Joint Venture
Delco Electronics/Shanghai Chang Jiang Instrument Factory, Chong Ming Island, People’s Republic of China: Managed Phase I & II environmental assessment activities at an old industrial site that spanned twenty-two (22) acres and contained sixty-six (66) separate buildings.

The scope of the Phase I activities included: identifying AOECs for Phase II activities; assessment of local permit requirements against air/water control technologies; discussion and negotiation of potential changes in permit/operating conditions resulting from the Joint Venture; evaluation and categorization of health and safety hazards; estimating the costs associated with upgrades to control technology and to correct health and safety concerns; and, lastly identify any business-related issues that could impact the transaction.

Phase II activities included: the collection of over thirty environmental media samples (wastewater, surface water, soil and sludges) from twenty AOECs; evaluation of off-site waste disposal options including local landfills; and, photographing areas of the site that were off-limits to other auditors. Interestingly, this deal was killed due to the Phase I ESA team’s discovery of an entire building of off-specification/rejected automobile parts. This building had been deemed off-limits (carved out of the transaction) to Delco’s business negotiation team.

Intel Corporation
Shanghai Xinzhuang Industrial Economic Zone, Minhang District, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China: Managed Phase I & II environmental site assessment activities to determine whether the government- assigned leasehold lot was acceptable and suitable to meet Intel’s requirements. Pre-site visit activities included: determining Intel’s design needs from the site planning and engineering staffs; gathering intelligence with respect to local industrial/public water supplies, electricity generation, and the local EH&S regulatory requirements.

In addition, research was conducted to determine the potential impact of P.R.C.’s Three Synchronization Policy (san tong shi) on Intel’s intended plant design and waste generation activities. The Three Synchronization Policy requires that any treatment facilities (or any equipment used to reduce discharges under air, water and noise regulations) be designed, constructed and operated in tandem with design, construction and operation of industrial facilities. The Phase I activities identified a major concern, which was confirmed during the Phase II work, that the industrial water supply was of exceedingly poor quality.

Hughes Aircraft Company/Delco Electronics
Various Waste Vendor Sites Located in Ireland and the United Kingdom: Evaluated seventeen waste vendor operations to determine which facilities should receive wastestreams generated from Hughes/Delco facilities located throughout Ireland and the U.K. Assessed financial soundness; compliance with U.K., Ireland, and E.U. regulations; and, environmental treatment, disposal as well as emission/discharge control technologies employed by the various operations.

Field Oversight & Remediation

Chem-Ray Coatings - Plainfield, New Jersey
After a fire destroyed this manufacturing facility and caused run-off and surface migration of numerous chemical compounds, the NJDEP required the development of an extensive soil/groundwater/surface water sampling program in order to estimate environmental impacts. Due to intense state and local scrutiny, the sampling program had to be implemented in a rapid timeframe and thorough fashion. Collected, catalogued and analyzed over 150 soil corings; forty surface water samples; and, installed, categorized, forty-two deep and shallow groundwater monitoring wells in a seven day period. The soil-sampling program targeted preferential areas of run-off and run-on resulting from the fire-fighting activities. As a result of the initial environmental media characterization, the client was able to target and remove several surficial soil “hot-spots” prior to groundwater impact occurring.

Hughes Aircraft Company - Fullerton, CA
Directed the baseline environmental assessment and subsequent preparation of a RCRA Facility Assessment (RFA) and RCRA Facility Investigation (RFI) Workplan at this 347-acre aerospace electronics facility. Directed negotiations with state and local agencies on the interpretation of RFA findings and the development of the RFI Workplan scope. Oversaw the implementation RFI that investigated over thirty Solid Waste Management Units (SWMUs). After completion of the RFI, directed negotiations with the state agency that lead to the closure of seventy percent of the SWMUs.

International Business Machines Corp. – Dayton, New Jersey
Managed Phase I ESA that indicated that the facility was out of compliance ECRA, as manufacturing operations had been transferred from this facility to North Carolina in 1988. This facility has received much notoriety, as this site was targeted during the late-1970s and early-1980s as the main contributor to the DNAPL contamination of South Brunswick Township’s public supply well. The site was able to receive amnesty under ISRA and proceeded through the ISRA compliance process. Managed all phases of the ISRA process and successfully negotiated with NJDEP to prevent re-opening the area groundwater investigation. This site contains over 186 deep and shallow groundwater monitoring wells and is touted as one of the most successful groundwater pump and treat (containment) systems in the U.S.

Due Diligence

SEPSCO – Divestiture of Ice Production Facilities
On behalf of the seller managed Phase I, II & III environmental site assessments of eighteen (18) ice production facilities located in Arizona, California, Florida, New Mexico, Tennessee and Texas. This project was completed to refute an earlier potential buyer’s Phase I ESA that stated that the total remediation costs associated with these facilities was in excess of $5 million. In fifty days completed the Phase I ESA, scoped and lined up contractors to perform the Phase II work, reviewed and summarized the Phase II data, generated a “Remediation Plan” that estimated the costs associated with cleanup to be $1.8 million. Presented the findings to potential buyer and was part of a negotiating team which ironed out an agreement for the seller to fund the first $1 million of remediation efforts; the buyer to fund second $1 million; and, the seller to pay for all costs over $2 million. Oversaw the Phase III activities, which were conducted at fourteen facilities, located in five states. The final remediation efforts cost $1.95 million.

EH&S Auditing

Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
Co-designed and managed an upgrade to this water purveyor’s EH&S audit program. Assisted with audits of several facilities and trained staff on new protocols.

TSDF/Waste Vendor Auditing & Program Design

Northrop/Grumman
Assisted with the design of the company’s Waste Vendor Approval Program and risk criteria. Performed over thirty audits of waste vendors for this client throughout the U.S.

Hughes Aircraft Company
Performed over forty waste vendor audits for this client. Audits were conducted in Europe, Canada and the United States of various types of treatment and disposal technologies.

Apple Computer
Designed and, subsequently improved upon, the waste vendor program for this client. Client wished to go to a very specific checklist format for its audit reporting process based on the types of wastestreams generated. Refined an existing protocol to allow for the new format that cut the auditing and report time by two-thirds. Trained staff on use of the new protocols.