Shield’s projects include Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), and Inactive Hazardous Waste (IHW) sites.
Our projects include a wide array of contaminants, geological settings, and clients. Shield's expertise includes fertilizer, acids, chlorinated compounds, metals, Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs), dioxins, and petroleum contaminated sites.
Our clients include Fortune 100 companies, including major chemical and industrial manufacturers, law firms and their clients.
One such project Shield was involved with was a 154-acre site that formerly conducted solvent recovery and reclamation operations, vanadium pentoxide catalyst manufacturing, bulk chemical repackaging, chromium compound manufacturing and associated laboratory services.
The site was managed under the North Carolina Inactive Hazardous Sites Branch, Registered Environmental Consultant (REC) Program. Activities by a previous consultant were deemed inadequate by the state, and the client faced a tight deadline for getting the project back on track. Shield was retained by the owner’s counsel to take over remedial action activities at the site. Shield reviewed all previous site files including Remedial Investigations and the Remedial Action Plan and it was found that the site was impacted by metals, including arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead, vanadium, and chlorinated volatile organic compounds.
Shield amended the Remedial Action Plan and upgraded the groundwater containment system from a minimal containment system to a combination air sparge/groundwater recovery and treatment system. To this day, the system is operated and maintained by Shield’s professional licensed wastewater treatment operators. Shield is currently evaluating additional innovative remedial technologies to expedite soil and groundwater remediation for possible property redevelopment.
Shield’s quick action and common sense approach to resolving outstanding remediation inadequacies enabled the project to meet the state's deadlines, helping to reestablishing credibility between the client and state regulatory agency, while ultimately saving the client money.
