Engineering & Remediation
ICF International has helped clients develop and deploy innovative
site assessment, engineering, and remediation solutions to their environmental
problems. While maintaining the highest standards of quality and safety,
we work with clients to:
- Identify environmental liabilities
- Investigate contaminated properties
- Assess human health and ecological risks
- Evaluate treatment and redevelopment alternatives and costs
- Design, build, and optimize remediation systems
- Expedite the cleanup, transfer, and revitalization of properties
We help clients make informed decisions, balancing regulatory requirements,
engineering judgment, economics, and scientific knowledge to ensure that
environmental risk is appropriately identified and effectively managed. Using
this approach, ICF has achieved a record of success in building consensus
among industry, regulators, and the public in support of cost-effective,
fully protective solutions.
To ensure the best qualified team for each project, ICF maintains a cadre
of highly trained technical staff with diverse backgrounds and expertise
in aquatic, marine, terrestrial, and wetland environments, including environmental
scientists, technical experts, and licensed and certified professionals, all of whom stand ready to help clients address environmental challenges
at a wide variety of sites—commercial, industrial, brownfields, Superfund,
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and state-listed.
ICF Engineering & Remediation Services
- Phase I/II environmental due diligence and liability valuation
- Field investigations and sampling
- Remediation management
- Brownfields redevelopment
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Selected Engineering & Remediation Clients
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- U.S. Department of Defense
- U.S. Department of Energy
- City of Santa Monica, California
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- Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection
- Multinational private corporations
- Law firms
- Nonprofit organizations
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Selected Engineering & Remediation Projects
Targeted Brownfields Assessment
U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency
ICF supports the EPA Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization on this
nationwide contract by providing technical assistance to eligible municipalities,
state and local governments, Native American tribes, and nonprofit organizations
in conducting targeted brownfields assessments to characterize contamination
and assess risks associated with blighted properties. ICF completes Phase
I and Phase II site assessments in accordance with All Appropriate Inquiries
and ASTM standards, assesses potential human health risks, evaluates possible
cleanup options and costs, and supports community outreach efforts. Selected
projects under this contract include Phase I and Phase II environmental site
assessments at a former dry cleaner in Victorville, California; a former metal plating
operation in Bristol, Connecticut; and an abandoned jewelry manufacturing factory
in Providence, Rhode Island.
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Environmental and Hazardous, Toxic
and Radioactive Waste (HTRW) Support
U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers
Since the mid 1990s, ICF has supported the Army Corps of Engineers, New
England and Baltimore Districts, on a variety of environmental planning and
restoration tasks under the HTRW program. Tasks have included: completion
of an MEC investigation of explosive chemicals at a former ordnance disposal Formerly Used Defense Site (
FUDS); performing a bedrock DNAPL remedial design, a TCE indoor vapor
inhalation risk assessment, and long-term groundwater monitoring at a former
dye manufacturing Superfund site; performing a Potential Responsible Party (PRP) investigation at a 14,000-acre
former World War II-era TNT manufacturing facility; assisting with the remedial
design at a woolen mill Superfund site that involved the excavation and thermal
treatment of contaminated soil, demolition of buildings, and construction
of a new river channel; conducting a comprehensive ecological risk assessment
and engineering evaluation/cost analysis of remedial alternatives for mine
tailing piles and acid mine drainage at a 200-year-old iron and copper mine;
and designing and implementing a petroleum LNAPL recovery system at a former
Air Force base.
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Facility Support at National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)
U.S.
Department
of Energy
ICF manages the groundwater investigation program for NETL-Albany, Oregon, including
investigation, regular monitoring, risk assessment, and remediation planning.
ICF developed the sitewide Groundwater Monitoring Plan (GMP), conducted optimization
studies, and updates the GMP annually. ICF is conducting the investigation
and human health risk assessment of chlorinated solvents in the groundwater
and of DNAPL concentrations on-site and off-site under an elementary school
and in private drinking water wells.
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Air Quality Technical Support
Massachusetts Department of Environmental
Protection (MassDEP)
ICF is conducting an assessment of Massachusetts markets to determine the
primary diesel emission sources and recommend a suite of control options
to reduce diesel emissions from currently uncontrolled sources and/or those
diesel emission sources not slated for near-term replacement or upgrade at
the markets. The assessment will serve as a blueprint for MassDEP and the
Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs to address impacts of
diesel emissions from Massachusetts markets.
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Environmental Program Support
City of Santa Monica, California
For more than 10 years, ICF has provided a broad range of environmental services
to this southern California municipality, including numerous Phase I environmental
site assessments in support of property acquisitions, Phase II site investigations,
remediation management, and long-term operations and maintenance. ICF has conducted Phase I
and Phase II assessments in accordance with ASTM standards and state regulations
on a variety of properties, including a transportation maintenance property,
municipal airport, private and public office buildings, a former lumber yard,
retail centers, and a pedestrian and bike pathway. Our Phase II activities
have included extensive soil, groundwater, and soil gas investigations to
evaluate the presence and magnitude of contaminants, including petroleum-based
fuels and oxygenates (e.g., MTBE, DIPE, TBA), chlorinated solvents, metals,
SVOCs, pesticides, and PCBs. ICF has also designed, constructed, operated,
and optimized numerous soil and groundwater remediation systems that included
soil vapor extraction, dual-phase extraction, air and ozone sparging, groundwater
pump and treat, bioventing, and bioremediation systems.
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Contaminated Sediment Restoration
U.S.
Army Natick Soldier Systems Center
ICF conducted a Feasibility Study for cleaning up contaminated sediments
associated with the U.S. Army Soldier Systems Center on the South Pond of
Lake Cochituate in Natick, Massachusetts. Among other issues, ICF analyzed
compliance with chemical-, location-, and action-specific applicable or relevant
and appropriate requirements, including federal and state requirements and
guidance, as well as appropriate local ordinances that may pertain to the
Soldier Systems Center shoreline areas where sediment cleanup may be required.
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Liability and Geotechnical Assessment of Aluminum Reduction Plant
Ormet
Corporation
ICF was engaged by Ormet Corporation to conduct a facility-wide assessment
of potential environmental liabilities associated with its current and historic
operations. A team of ICF experts conducted interviews with current and past
facility managers and environmental directors, performed thorough facility
inspections, reviewed available environmental documents, and conducted interviews
with state and local environmental regulators. The information obtained was
compiled into an environmental liability matrix, which included identified
issues and costs to mitigate the issues. The liability assessment was used
by management in planning for future potential sale of the facility.
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Environmental Due Diligence of Costa Rican International Airport
Private
Client
ICF performed an environmental due diligence assessment for the San Jose
International Airport in San Jose, Costa Rica. The project was divided into
four tasks: document review, site visit and interviews, data integration
and liability assessment, and report preparation. ICF assessed the airport
with respect to site conditions; current operations; site history; adjoining
property usage; hazardous materials and waste management; soil and groundwater
contamination; wastewater/storm water discharge; fuel storage; solid waste
management; air and water pollution control systems; on-site and off-site
disposal practices; air emissions; spill prevention and control; PCBs; asbestos-containing
materials; and environmental health and safety management.
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