PROJECT
PROFILES:
RT - Innovator in Tank
and Remediation Projects
The solution-oriented engineering
approach used by RT Environmental Services, Inc. (RT) and its
commitment to high quality service require that it be an
innovator in the use of new remediation technologies. RT leads
the way in knowing if, when, and how to use these new
technologies.
RT has completed hundreds of tank
and petroleum pipeline groundwater investigation projects.
These include tank management programs for companies with 100+
tanks and major petroleum company multi-site
investigation/remediation projects.
In one project for a major car
rental company in the Atlantic City area, gas vapors were
detected while putting in sewers in a city street. When
another consultant was unable to rectify the problem and the
company was facing penalties from the Department of
Environmental Protection, RT was called.
RT avoided penalties by locating
the problem, identifying a solution, and designing a system
that accounted for the company's location on a barrier island
near the ocean. RT installed a groundwater recovery system of
modular design using Calgon carbon pretreatment units. A
special sensor was needed to detect salt water entering the
system because salt water will foul the carbon and negatively
affect the pretreatment system. On detection of salt water,
the autodialer system calls RT and shuts the system down until
the problem is corrected.
Other technologies employed on
the site included pulse-pumping and continuous monitoring of
the effluent.
The remedial cleanup project was
completed in 18 months and now requires monitoring
only.
In the New Jersey/Pennsylvania
area alone, RT has completed over 100 projects using one or
more of the investigation and remediation techniques described
below.
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