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Environmental
Science
TerraGraphics specializes
in providing high quality environmental science and engineering services to
meet our clients’ needs on complex environmental projects. Our experienced
scientists and engineers utilize a multi-disciplinary approach and work closely
with applicable regulatory agencies to ensure projects progress smoothly while
avoiding unnecessary delays.
For hazardous and
solid waste, cleanup, closure, and development projects, TerraGraphics provides:
- Phase
I Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs)
- Phase
II ESA and site characterization services
- Human
health risk assessments and feasibility studies
- Database
management, GIS, and mapping
- Remedial
action alternative analyses
- Permitting
and regulatory compliance assistance
- Remedial
action oversight and confirmation
- Public
involvement and education
Since 1984, our
personnel have completed hundreds of ESAs, site characterization projects, and
remedial action oversight projects for lending institutions at the local and
national levels, universities, hospitals, insurance companies, private industry,
real estate agencies, inner-city housing projects, Indian reservations, petroleum
industry sites, solid and hazardous waste landfills, railroad properties, agricultural
chemical storage and distribution facilities, and the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
TerraGraphics has
evaluated properties ranging from a small parcel of farmland to a Superfund
site covering 21 square miles. Our work has taken us throughout the United States
and into Canada, Russia, and Australia. TerraGraphics’ familiarity with
this region of the country, however, as well our vast network of information
sources, enables us to put together teams to tackle complex environmental projects
with an emphasis on meeting requirements unique to the northwest.
Sampling/Monitoring
TerraGraphics’ sampling and monitoring services, include:
- Surface Water,
Groundwater, Soil, Sediment, Air, and Biological Sampling,
- Monitoring Well
Installation,
- Meteorological
Data Collection,
- Soil Gas Studies,
- Lead, Asbestos,
and Radon Surveys, and
- Modeling Ground
Water, Surface Water and Air Pathways.
In addition, through
cooperative agreements, we team with other firms and specialists throughout
the region to provide a suite of environmental services that may be required
to support the project or be requested by the client. These capabilities include:
- Wetland delineation
- Habitat surveys
and ecological assessments
- Fisheries and
limnology
- Geophysical
testing
- Analytical laboratory
services
Regulatory
TerraGraphics’ extensive knowledge of State and Federal regulations enables
us to generate comprehensive Corrective Action Plans (CAPs) and helps ensure
that the client meets all requirements of consent orders and other agency regulations.
Health and safety
plans, field operation work plans, sampling and analysis plans, and Quality
Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) plans are prepared and routinely reviewed
and approved by state and federal agencies.
Example
Projects:
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