Remedial Work and Environmental Consulting
New technologies are making
it possible to collect and manage increasing amounts of information. More detailed
information allows for more accurate site models and customized monitoring and
remediation systems. The design of site a specific system requires, among other
traits, the ability to utilize and develop new technologies. The benefits are
increased performance and cost-savings for the client. It was Eon scientists
who developed and demonstrated site-specific well construction and test designs
for Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas (Some of the referenced project
experience in this document may have been performed by Eon professionals previous
to their employment with Eon.). These new wells produced flows of up to
two orders of magnitude higher than previously installed wells. This allows
design engineers to reduce the number of recovery units by more than sixty percent.
The invention of the Multiple
Well Contaminant Recovery Apparatus by one of our scientists provided significant
cost savings to the Kendall oil refinery in Bradford, Pennsylvania. While allowing
for uninterrupted refinery operations, this system substitutes for up to fifteen
conventional systems and significantly increases contaminant/water recovery
ratios over conventional techniques.
Eon is well experienced
in the design, use, and implementation of various measuring instruments and
monitoring systems. Such instruments include single point multilevel monitoring
and sampling instruments (such as Westbay MP® systems) or multi-parameter
water and wastewater measuring instruments (such as the Wissenschaftlich-Technische
Werkstäten Gmbh (WTW) Combibox CB-570). We are familiar with remote monitoring
systems for process automation, horizontal wells and trenches, soil venting,
air sparging and other standard soil and aquifer monitoring and cleanup technologies.
Typical Aquifer Restoration
and Environmental Consulting Projects:
Name of Project: "Kelly
Air Force Base" Project work required
full scale professional engineering and scientific services for investigation
of a CERCLA and RECRA contaminated site. Individual tasks involved base-wide
groundwater and soil data review, data assessment and validation, site inspections,
development of a base-wide 3-D conceptual model and its visualization, evaluation
of the existing aquifer restoration and remediation system performance, identification
of data gaps, remedial investigation, feasibility study, design and management
of the additional tests and evaluations, design and development of geographic
information system (GIS) analytical applications, development and presentation
of the conceptual remedial design and specification of parameters for upgrade
of the existing system, design of its integration into the final groundwater
remedial system, engineering design of the final system and preparation of the
O&M manual.
Accomplishments:
Project work was associated
with aquifer testing and technical and engineering design of remedial systems.
It involved the evaluation of the Phase II investigation results, the design,
implementation and evaluation of an extensive aquifer testing and monitoring
program; the development of conceptual and numerical two-dimensional (2D) and
three dimensional (3D) models; and the invention, design and implementation
of a new generation of remedial systems that is suitable for the remediation
of busy industrial sites (patented Multiple Well Contaminant Recovery Apparatus).
Part of the project was to implement and monitor a pilot system, calibrate various
models and design a cost-effective remedial system solution for the entire refinery.
This was last accomplished via computer simulation on 2D and 3D models. Work
also involved the development of a GIS database of existing and historical planimetric,
analytical and interpretative data.
Accomplishments:
Mitigation of an accidental
spill of oil from a storage tank in the first sanitary protection zone of River
Orlice - source of a drinking water supply for a population of about 350,000.
The project work involved environmental risk assessment, contaminated zone delineation
via gasometry and UV monitoring in the field, removal and decontamination of
upper soil layers via biodegradation and pyrolysis, design and implementation
of a protective hydraulic barrier, design and implementation of air-sparging
and pump and treat systems, in-situ aquifer bioremediation, and design and implementation
of monitoring systems.
Accomplishments:
Client: SAIC, San Antonio, TX
Name of the Project: "Phase III Remedial Activities at the Kendall Amalie
Bradford Refinery"
Client: WITCO Corporation, Bradford, PA
Name of the Project: "River Orlice"
Client: Agropodnik, Usti nad Orlici, Czech Republic