Brownfield and voluntary remediation projects protect human health and the environment while restoring beneficial use to properties. The benefits of environmental regulations often vastly outweigh the costs. Studies indicate that environmental regulation create business growth and job opportunities by requiring prevention efforts and pollution cleanup.

GeoTech understands the priorities of business owners and operators of active facilities who seek practical solutions to clean up commercial properties before marketing the real estate for new uses. Sophisticated business owners need to focus on identifying their business risk and liability that can cause pollution in their workplace and be educated on current environmental policies that can affect their bottom line. GeoTech guides businesses in understanding and implementing simple pollution prevention techniques so that they can deliver a safe work place for their human resources, be social benefactors, reduce insurance liabilities risk, increase competitiveness and profit.

If you are a lender, you hope that you were not responsible for recommending a loan on this contaminated property. The lender’s concern is existence of the cash flow to pay off the note, not confronting foreclosure, and protracted litigation concerns from regulators. GeoTech knows these environmental liabilities and the nightmare that brought the “Titanic” down and continues to lurk behind the building gates. Investors and Developers seek economic opportunity and GeoTech helps them to clean up commercial properties before marketing the real estate for new uses and enjoy substantial profits. GeoTech also works with government agencies to redevelop idle or contaminated properties and place them back into productive use.

Our teams of professionals accomplish these goals by providing the following services:

• Site Inspections, Phase II, and Phase III Investigations
• Remedial Design
• Monitoring and Reporting
• Environmental Earthwork and Soil Decontamination

GeoTech understands the regulatory landscape, has forged strong relationships and trust with regulators. We have taken on many complex challenges and successfully remediated many gas stations, auto repair facilities, dry cleaners, electroplating facilities, food & beverage companies, cardboard manufacturing firms and used oil processors and restored these sites for active and passive end-uses cost effectively.

Determining whether something is a “hazardous waste” can be challenging due to the myriad of regulations and guidance that have evolved over the decades under CERCLA and RCRA. GeoTech helps the regulated community comply with all phases of the law, from determining whether wastes are hazardous; initial screening/sampling, permitting, decontaminating and decommissioning of manufacturing and industrial facilities.  Such facilities utilize spent solvent wastes, electroplating and other metal finishing wastes, dioxin-bearing wastes, chlorinated aliphatic hydrocarbons production, and petroleum refinery wastewater treatment sludges.

Services provided by GeoTech include:

• Initial screening investigation
• Human health risk assessment
• Design or permitting of plating facilities
• Closure plans and corrective action for releases for electroplating & metal finishing facilities
• Design of used oil processing systems and used engine oil regeneration system
• Used oil management applications
• Permitting and engineering plans for processing facilities, public oil collection centers, used oil transporters, transfer stations, and facilities that store, process, or manage used oil.
• Preparation of certification documents; annual certifications, closure cost estimates, contingency plans, closure Plans, preparedness and prevention plans, spill prevention plans, training programs, unit management plans, used oil tracking plans, and waste analysis plans.

Besides looking at your cash register which is aboveground, how well do you know you underground fuel storage tank system? Do you have a storage tank management manual, pollution prevention plan, a site safety plan, employee training manual or know what fuel storage tank equipment is FDEP approved? GeoTech has performed hundreds of tank projects covering virtually every issue faced by tank owners and operators. Storage tank owners are faced with a complex series of Federal regulations, state regulations, design issues, registration, construction, operation, integrity testing, inventory control and monitoring, maintenance and upgrades, spill response, training, closure, and remediation. GeoTech’s experience includes underground storage tanks (USTs) and above-ground storage tanks (ASTs), petroleum tanks and hazardous materials (raw material and product) tanks. We are now focused on the new gas station with the digital future that will deal with self-driving autos, mobile apps that will communicate with the automobile so that you will not have to pump gasoline at the service station.

Tank services provided by GeoTech include:

• Design of new or replacement tank and dispensing facilities
• Tank inventory, risk assessment, and management planning
• Tank registration and permitting
• Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) Plans, and Facility Response Plans
• SPCC training
• Preparation and implementation of tank inspection and integrity testing plans
• Tank closure and/or engineering oversight
• Spill and release response, including site characterization, remediation, and regulatory agency negotiations
• Forensic evaluations – i.e., to determine the historic source(s) of petroleum and hazardous materials contamination in soil and groundwater
• Trust fund reimbursement