Environmental Consulting Services

CORE Environmental Services, Inc. provides professional environmental consulting services to provide solutions for your environmental business needs:

  • Site characterization & site remediation
  • Compliance auditing
  • Due diligence
  • Phase I Environmental Site Assessments
  • Environmental permitting
  • Data management
  • Mobile remediation services

CORE’s unique expertise allows us to effectively navigate projects from initial site investigation, through assessment and site characterization activities to final closure or release of liability.

Site Characterization & Remediation services:

  • Full service project management capabilities for compliance with the Pennsylvania Land Recycling Act, Storage Tank Corrective Action process and the West Virginia Voluntary Remediation Program
  • Pilot testing to evaluate feasibility and to select design parameters using our mobile remediation unit
    (see our Mobile Remediation page for more details)
  • Underground storage tank (UST) closures
  • Development of defensible site-specific standards
  • Remedial Action Plan preparation and implementation
  • Computer groundwater modeling
  • Remediation system design and installation including liquid petroleum hydrocarbon (LPH) removal and dual phase extraction systems
  • Aquifer biostimulation and monitored natural attenuation
  • Utilizing telemetry to enable remote monitoring and adjustment of remedial system performance

Compliance Management & Due Diligence services:
  • Full regulatory compliance auditing
  • Phase I Environmental Site Assessments (ASTM standard E-1527)
  • Phase II Environmental Site Assessments
  • Hazardous material identification
  • Spill prevention & response planning including SPCC and PPC plan development
  • Environmental permitting for air, stormwater, wastewater (NPDES, Title V, Form R's, SARA Title III, Discharge Monitoring Reports - DMRs)
  • "In-Plant" compliance management support - see our Why Choose CORE? page for details
Field Services:
  • Monitoring well installations using rotary drilling and Geoprobe techniques
  • Soil sampling (to include appropriate equipment for EPA method 5035 and Land Recycling Act 75/10x grid sampling)
  • Ground water sampling (to include low-flow natural attenuation sampling and associated field analyses)
  • Oversight for soil boring advancement
  • Remediation system installation
  • Operation and maintenance of remediation systems
  • Oversight of soil excavation activities
  • Oversight and data acquisition for pilot test trailer and field remediation pilot tests
  • Health and safety field oversight
Engineering services:
  • Spill Prevention Control & Countermeasure (SPCC) Plan preparation and certification
  • Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan preparation and certification
  • Part B RCRA Permit development and preparation
  • RCRA Post-Closure Permit and permit renewal development and preparation
  • Engineering assessments and professional engineering certification
  • Remedial Action Plan development and preparation
  • Aboveground Storage Tank professional engineering certification

CORE has partnered with the Pennsylvania Underground Storage Tank Indemnification Board to provide Pay for Performance services. These services are performed under a contract which includes:
  • a firm fixed price
  • a fixed time limit for achieving the desired environmental goals
  • cleanup goals specified in terms of contamination levels and product thickness
  • criteria for system start-up and contamination reduction milestone payments

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