You Shouldn’t Have to Cross Your Fingers

It is not unusual to see sites like the one above. The community around it is growing, and the property with remediation issues is stuck. Surely, this is not its highest and best use. While I don’t know the particulars, I’d be willing to bet that the “uncertainty” related to remediation costs versus potential returns has the owner stimied.

When a property is contaminated, it’s not resolved by a technical fix like replacing a broken part. In fact, the repetitive process of collecting sufficient characterization data to support remedy selection can discourage even the most tolerant responsible party. We’ve all been there when someone says, “Quit looking at it and do something.”

Review the files of older contaminated sites, and you’ll notice a pattern: incomplete site characterization followed by a “cross your fingers” remedy. A pattern of guesswork and rework that’s frustrating, costly, and demoralizing for everyone, especially if you’re footing the bill.

We empathize with your struggle. Since RPI’s founding, we’ve made it our mission to break the guesswork cycle. That’s why we offer free analytical services to help you truly understand your site. More soil and groundwater samples. No extra cost. Full support through closure.

Once your site is ready for remedy, RPI products are designed to provide peace of mind from start to finish. By adsorption, CAT and BOS products immediately eliminate potential risk pathways while destroying halogenated compounds or petroleum contamination. Our environmentally benign products don’t need maintenance or power, and work quietly in the background, day, night, weekends, and holidays. They do not damage the infrastructure or require removal when the work is complete.

The RPI approach is simple: we minimize uncertainty, reduce complexity, and plan with the site closure in mind. By offering free analytical support, we invest alongside you. And with available flexible, performance-based contracts, we make achieving closure financially manageable.

With RPI, you don’t have to cross your fingers anymore.

See our case study this month. Kevin French from VEI Contracting, Ontario, Canada. Kevin delivers a cost-effective clean-up on a challenging chlorinated solvent site, converting a liability into a valuable asset.

                                Edward Winner

                                Vice President, RPI

Webinar

May 1st, 12:00 EST

AST will be presenting with Aestus on May 1st at noon EDT to discuss the Remedial Design Characterization (RDC) and quantitative High-Resolution Site Characterization (qHRSC) processes and how these methodologies can be optimized using Electrical Resistivity Imaging (ERI). Information on Aestus and a synopsis of their presentation can be found below:

Aestus was founded in 2001 to make subsurface investigations more effective and cost-efficient via scanning the subsurface with improved ERI technology. After 24 years, Aestus has an extensive portfolio of projects demonstrating the effectiveness of their scanning technique in combination with confirmatory drilling and sampling. Together, the data yields far better conceptual site models than the industry standard, enabling clients to manage projects more effectively. This talk will discuss how Aestus’ scanning technology can be applied to monitor subsurface changes across continuous 2D planes and how high-resolution imagery in 3D provides a roadmap for remediation via two case studies.

Case Study: Cost-effective Clean-up on a Challenging Chlorinated Solvent Site, from Liability to Asset