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BURNS & MCDONNELL

Remediation and RCRA/CERCLA
Environmental Services for Manufactured Gas Plants
Compliance and Permitting Services
Solid Waste Management
Environmental Services for the Aviation Industry

Environmental Services: Remediation, Compliance and Permitting, Aviation, Hydrology and Geology


Burns & McDonnell has completed the design, construction and operation of remediation systems for contaminated sites across the country. Our comprehensive in-house capabilities allow us to conduct site investigations, compare remediation alternatives, negotiate with agency representatives, design and construct turn-key remediation systems, operate and maintain systems, monitor and quantify the effect of remediation, and achieve site closure. We also have sufficient expertise in remediation technology to operate and maintain, and/or modify, existing remediation systems. The remediation alternatives offered address surface, subsurface contamination in the soil, groundwater, and vapor phases.

Cost-Effective Remediation

Burns & McDonnell has provided clients with environmental solutions since the first regulations were passed. Today, we offer all the services needed to bring your site to closure in the most cost-effective manner.

Our experts design remediation strategies that focus on your objectives, with an emphasis on safety and innovation that saves you money.

Remedial Design/Construction

  • Soil Vapor Extraction (SVE)
  • Product recovery
  • Aquifer Air Sparge (AAS)
  • Combined SVE/AAS
  • Bioventing
  • Bioremediation
  • Pump and treat
  • Dual-phase vacuum recovery
  • In situ chemical oxidation
  • Natural attenuation studies
  • Solidification/stabilization
  • Six-phase heating
  • Thermal desorption
  • Permeable reactive barriers

Construction Management

  • Construction quality assurance
  • Startup and system balancing
  • Operation and maintenance manuals
  • Acceptance testing
  • Certification

Operations, Maintenance and Monitoring

  • Permit compliance testing
  • System analysis
  • Equipment maintenance/repair
  • Waste disposal 
  • Cover repairs
  • Database upkeep
  • Agency reporting and negotiations

RCRA Corrective Action & Closure

Your hazardous waste issues won’t go away without the expertise of an experienced consultant. Burns & McDonnell has experience investigating, remediating and
closing hazardous waste sites.

Removing Your Environmental Liability

Our experience makes us the right choice to solve the hazardous waste issues you face. We have conducted investigations at facilities including manufacturing plants, chemical plants, landfills, disposal facilities, public facilities and DoD sites.

Our Experience:

  • Negotiation and modification of permits and consent orders
  • Reduction and/or elimination of post-closure care requirements
  • Phased investigation and data presentation
  • Risk-based closure of RCRA-regulated units
  • Environmental liability transfer

Services:

  • Reporting – CCR, RFI,
  • CMS, CMI
  • Triad approach to investigations
  • Risk assessment
  • Chemistry/data validation
  • Innovative remedies
  • Design-build remediation
  • Extensive federal, state and local experience

CERCLA/NPL Sites

Your CERCLA/NPL site issues won’t go away without the expertise of an experienced consultant. Burns & McDonnell has experience investigating, remediating and
closing CERCLA/NPL sites.

Removing Your Environmental Liability

Our experience makes us the right choice to solve the hazardous waste issues you face. We have conducted investigations at facilities including manufacturing plants, chemical plants, landfills, disposal facilities, public facilities and DoD sites, and have worked for PRP groups ranging in size from two to several hundred.

Our Experience

  • First engineered remedial action in USEPA Region VII
  • Closure of NPL sites
  • Environmental liability transfer
  • Risk-based approach

Services we provide:

  • Reporting – RI/FS, PP,
  • ROD, EE/CA
  • Triad approach to investigations
  • Risk assessment
  • Chemistry/Data validation experience
  • Innovative remedies
  • Design-build remediation
  • Extensive federal and state experience

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Remediation

Risk-Management Approach

Burns & McDonnell has helped hundreds of owners of former manufactured gas plant sites resolve environmental impacts with a risk-management approach that controls costs and achieves site rehabilitation goals. From site investigation onward, we focus our expertise on achieving closure of the site at the lowest cost to you.

Industry-Leading Expertise

Burns & McDonnell has won national honors for creative MGP remedial design solutions. Unlike consultants who can only handle part of the job, we lead the industry in complete MGP capabilities, from initial studies to final design-build site reclamation.

In-House Expertise

  • Electrical, chemical and civil engineers
  • Geologists
  • Regulatory specialists
  • Urban planners
  • Public relations specialists
  • Landscape architects
  • GIS professionals
  • CAS designers
  • Surveyors
  • Construction managers
  • Web designers
  • Financial specialists

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Custom Manufactured Gas Plant Solutions

Environmental Impact Risk Management

Burns & McDonnell has assisted industrial clients throughout the nation with professional compliance and regulatory consultation services. As a nationally recognized leader in the environmental and engineering community, we offer our clients the strength and experience required to satisfy the needs of any environmental project.

Leading You to Compliance

Burns & McDonnell environmental compliance and permitting services range from single-site defined programs to comprehensive services for entire companies, including due diligence for mergers and acquisitions.

The unique combination of technical expertise and knowledge of environmental regulations allows our staff to provide timely and quality environmental service tailored to each client and assignment.

Audits, Assessments, Investigations

  • Compliance audits
  • Environmental management system reviews
  • Environmental site assessments
  • Environmental due diligence (Phase I and II assessments)
  • Preliminary assessments
  • NORM assessments
  • PCB assessments

Compliance Plans, Reports, Documents

  • Oil spill (SPCC) plans
  • Facility response plans
  • Contingency plans
  • Risk management plans
  • Storm water pollution prevention plans
  • Emission inventories
  • Tier II
  • Toxic release inventory reports
  • TSCA inventory reports

Reporting and Permitting Assistance

  • NPDES (wastewater and storm water)
  • RCRA Part B
  • Air (construction, Title V and operating)

Regulatory Consultation

  • SARA Title III
  • Chemical inventories
  • Waste minimization
  • Pollution prevention
  • Environmental training
  • Regulatory negotiation

Air Permitting

Our experienced air permitting specialists weave seamlessly into your operation,
helping you achieve your air permitting goals.

Our air permitting specialists will help you:

  • Avoid schedule delays
  • Redirect resources from environmental issues to production
  • Meet reporting deadlines
  • Keep up with environmental requirements
  • Improve public perception of your facility
  • Reduce your risk of fines and penalties

Dispersion Modeling

Our modeling staff has worked on hundreds of projects in all 10 EPA regions. They have developed expertise using a variety of models.

Compliance Management

You have survived permitting and construction, but that doesn’t mean your environmental issues are over. Custom environmental compliance management manuals and compliance tools developed by Burns & McDonnell will be invaluable for helping you comply with ongoing environmental regulations.

Wetland Permitting & Design:

If your project affects a wetland area, you may be wading waist-deep through permitting requirements.

Finding Your Way

Burns & McDonnell has more than 20 years of wetland permitting and design experience. We have evaluated, delineated and mapped more than 1,500 wetlands. Designed more than 41,000 acres of wetlands. Prepared more than 100 wetland restoration/mitigation plans and monitored wetland progress on more than 150 acres of wetlands.

Projects that affect wetlands face complex permitting requirements ranging from Section 404 of the Clean Water Act to state and local regulations. Burns & McDonnell can help you obtain the necessary permits.

  • Jurisdictional wetland delineations
  • Wetland functional analysis
  • Mapping
  • Negotiation of permit conditions
  • Wetland restoration/mitigation plans
  • Wetland monitoring programs
  • Constructed wetland designs
  • Hydrology/hydraulic analysis
  • Engineering

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Compliance Services

Permitting Services

Burns & McDonnell provides a full range of solid waste consulting services. We are a nationally recognized leader in the solid waste management field, having completed over hundreds of solid waste management projects during the past 30 years. Our team of qualified professionals has worked on projects across the United States and internationally. Few firms can provide the depth of qualified experience that Waste Consultants can offer.

We Can Handle Your Challenge

Solid waste management requires progressive and innovative approaches in the context of sustainable development. The Burns & McDonnell solid waste team has built a solid record since 1970, successfully completing hundreds of solid waste projects. And we are prepared to apply our experience to your unique situation.

With Burns & McDonnell, you get full-spectrum services, combining our solid waste experience with our energy capabilities, biogas processing, environmental studies and permitting expertise, risk transfer strategies, and design-build applications.

We provide the following services:

  • Compliance
  • Remediation
  • Design-build
  • Geotechnical engineering
  • Construction management
  • Construction quality assurance
  • Hydrogeology
  • Permitting
  • Siting
  • Design
  • Feasibility studies

Our experience areas are as follows:

  • Landfills
  • Transfer stations
  • Composting
  • Resource recovery
  • Planning

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Solid Waste Management

Land Fill Management

Burns & McDonnell's long history of providing design services to the aviation industry coupled with our environmental project experience provides us with specialized expertise to meet the environmental needs of our aviation clients. We have conducted successful environmental projects at over 50 major airports, 20 aircraft manufacturing and maintenance facilities throughout the United States, and key international locations. Our environmental services to the aviation industry include environmental program management, environmental compliance, site assessment, risk-based project management, consortium management, and site remediation.

Burns & McDonnell: Before, During and After the Project is Done

Burns & McDonnell has successfully completed a wide variety of aviation projects domestically and internationally. Our reputation has been built on quality projects that are functional, efficient, flexible and cost effective. Our qualified professionals have the experience providing environmental services to aviation clients.

Our clients include airlines, major international airports, aircraft manufacturers and regional airports. We have assisted them with RCRA, TSCA and CERCLA regulatory requirements.

Experienced in Management, Investigation and Remediation of:

  • Petroleum hydrocarbons
  • Chlorinated solvents
  • PAHs
  • Metals
  • Cyanides
  • PCBs
  • Asbestos

We provide the following services:

  • Environmental audits, permitting and compliance
  • Construction management of contaminated media
  • Environmental management/ insurance cost recovery
  • Air quality
  • Fueling system evaluation
  • Fuel farm AST/UST demolition and closure
  • Environmental investigations
  • Risk assessments
  • Remediation cost estimating, design and implementation

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Environment Services for the Aviation Industry

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