AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL & CONSTRUCTION SERVICES, INC.
(AECS)
| Client: | Georgia Department of Environmental Protection, Hazardous Sites Response Program |
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| Location: | Statewide, Georgia | |
| Program Cost: | $15,000,000 (to date) | |
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Loading Hazardous Waste |
Program Description
Services
Performed:
Site
Investigation / Identification Services
Soil
/ Liquids Loading and Removal Services, Site Restoration
Solicitation
for and Oversight of T&D Services
Program
Overview:
This
program is a one-year, with two option years, Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite
Quantity, multiple task order contract issued by the Georgia Department of
Natural Resources, Environmental Protection Division (GAEPD) to AECS.
We are on our second three-year contract under this program. Delivery
orders are negotiated based upon a scope of work and contract unit prices.
Projects completed under this contract to date include staging,
overpacking, loading, transporting and disposing of drums from three locations;
loading, transporting and disposing of hazardous liquids; loading, transporting
and disposing of a large stockpile of contaminated soil; and managing the
excavation, loading, weighing, transporting, and disposing of 9,000 tons of
hazardous waste and 9,000 tons of non-hazardous waste.
Projects
Han-Har
Metal Finishing Site Ludowici, GA
The Han-Har Metal Finishing Site is a former electroplating facility, abandoned in 1990 with a number of vats and drums (some deteriorated) of waste chemicals and product chemicals used for etching, anodizing and dying left in place. Some staging had been done by a previous GAEPD contractor. AECS reassessed the situation at the site, overpacked the deteriorated drums, arranged for the transportation and disposal of the drums and liquids, loaded the contaminated material, and supervised the T&D contractor.
The Liberty Oil and Refining Site is an abandoned
facility that accepted, processed, and packaged used oil for resale and
transport. A previous GAEPD
contractor had stockpiled 2,350 tons of TPH-contaminated soil.
AECS arranged for the transportation and disposal of the soil, loaded the
soil, and supervised the T&D contractors.
The East Beasley Road Drum Site is the site of
approximately 2,000 abandoned drums, of which 10-30 contain waste material, and
200 tires. To date, AECS has
provided GAEPD with a cost estimate to further sample and assess the drums
on-site and then load, transport, and dispose of the hazardous containers.
The New Hope Cemetery Site is the site of a number of
abandoned drums containing hazardous waste.
AECS collected and analyzed additional samples; prepared, packaged and
overpacked drums; arranged for transportation and disposal of the drums; and
supervised the T&D contractor.
SoGreen
Waste Pile (Barren Area) Tifton, GA
The SoGreen Waste Pile facility operated as a micronutrient fertilizer manufacturing and distribution facility. The facility received flue dust, KO61 waste, from several steel companies to recycle into fertilizer. The Barren Area used flue dust as fill material. AECS was given the mission of managing the excavation, loading into lined end dump trucks, weighing, manifesting, transporting and disposing of approximately 9,000 tons of hazardous (KO61) soil and 9,000 tons of non-hazardous contaminated soil.
Griffith Oil Company Site Arcade, GA
The
Griffith Oil Company Site was an abandoned oil transporter facility from which a
major removal action had been executed. An
investigation had been conducted leaving 35 drums of IDW on site. AECS disposed of the drums at an approved location
and stockpiled the empty drums in an on-site facility.
Peach Metals Industries Site Byron, GA
The
Peach Metals Site is the site of an old electroplating company that was the site
of a GAEPD investigation. 286 drums
of IDW had been left at the site. AECS
was tasked with emptying the drums
and disposing of the contents and crushing and disposing of the empty drums.
Most of the drums had to be dewatered prior to emptying and then
stabilized with an absorbent prior to transportation for disposal.
Alternate Energy Resources Site - Augusta, GA
The Alternate Energy
Resources Site was a permitted hazardous waste treatment and storage facility
that went bankrupt. In the initial
phase of the project, AECS was tasked to conduct an inventory of approximately
500 drums left on the site. AECS inventoried the drums, evaluated their
condition and prepared a detailed drum log for the facility.
In the next phase of the project AECS conducted a removal operation of
the drums and other containers and to empty, decontaminate, demolish and remove
all aboveground storage tanks.
The Goldberg Brothers Site is an abandoned scrap yard of approximately10 acres containing significant amounts of old tires, scrap metal, debris, hazardous ash and grindings scattered throughout the site and in large piles. In Phases I and II of the project, AECS executed a major topographical survey of the site and the waste piles to determine the amount and character of each waste stream; collected, stored, and disposed of 4,000 gallons of contaminated surface and contact water; excavated and disposed of 300 tons of obviously contaminated soil; collected and disposed of several hundred pounds of elemental mercury found in an office; collected and containerized mercury contaminated debris in that facility (Level B), and sealed the building pending its demolition and disposal. AECS also collected and inventoried all records found on-site and some off-site (Some done in Level B) and tabulated a listing of potential PRPs, designed a system to channel and filter surface runoff to prevent contamination from leaving the site through surface runoff; and prepared a cost estimate for the Phase III Removal Operation. Phase III involved the segregation, loading, transporting and disposing of the 25,000 tons of surface material in its seven waste streams, the demolition and removal of the mercury-contaminated office building, the demolition and removal of two large warehouse buildings and a storage shed. We then conducted a complete soil sampling and analysis of the site to determine the character and the horizontal and vertical extent of the contamination in the soil. Phase IV activities involved the excavation, stockpiling, and sampling of 75,000 tons of soil contaminated predominately by lead and PCBs. A soil stabilization chamber was constructed on-site to stabilize the lead-contaminated soil for eventual transportation and disposal at a Subtitle D disposal facility. Concurrently with the excavation, stabilization, loading, transportation and disposal of the contaminated soil, the excavation areas were backfilled with clean material and the site restored with seeding, fertilizer, and mulch. This was an $8.5M project.
