Soil and Groundwater

Boston Environmental & Engineering Associates, Inc. is a full service environmental engineering and consulting company located in the Greater Boston area. We can conduct a soil and ground water survey on your property as part of a Site Assessment or as a stand alone survey to determine if soil and/or groundwater contamination is present. Boston Environmental and Engineering Associates offers our New England clients the most economical and technically sound methods for resolving your soil and groundwater problems.

Boston Environmental has extensive experience in evaluation and remedial strategies to address a broad array of soil and groundwater contaminants. From petroleum or other volatile organic compounds (VOCs), Semi VOCs, Perchloroethylene (Perc) insecticides, pesticides, metals etc. Boston Environmental can identify and remediate the problem.

Boston Environmental has extensive experience in evaluating and remedial strategies to address a broad array of soil and groundwater contaminants. From highly toxic, recalcitrant organic chemicals, such as dioxins/furans and PCBs, to inorganic trace metals, such as arsenic, lead, and cadmium - Boston Environmental can identify and remediate the problem.

Boston Environmental has the  resources to meet any contingency that your soil and/or groundwater problem may require. Our associates include:

Chemists
Construction Technicians
Geologists
HVAC Technicians
Licensed Site Professionals
Mechanical Engineers
Plumbing & Piping Technicians
Radiation Scientists
Radon Testing Technicians
Registered Professional Chemical Engineers
Registered Professional Civil Engineers
Registered Professional Structural Engineers
Tank Removal Specialist

When contaminated soil or contaminated groundwater is suspected, sampling and analysis must be conducted to confirm the presence or absence of the suspected contaminants. Boston Environmental makes every effort to minimize costs, damage to property and disruption of business or home usage through the use of the latest drilling and sampling equipment available. Accurate sampling methods are important as well as sampling points decisions. Utilizing state-of-the-art sampling equipment and decontamination techniques, Boston Environmental can precisely detect and quantify contamination, defining the vertical and lateral extent of the plume as required by state regulations.

Once contamination is confirmed and defined, Boston Environmental will represent the client with the Department of Environmental Protection, and local government agencies, and file on behalf of the client, necessary documentation and reports, describing remediation measures, including: state regulated Immediate Response Actions (IRAs) Plans, Response Action Measures (RAM) plans, Tier Classifications (if required) and Response Action Outcomes (RAOs) to close the site when remediation is completed. If remediation is required, Boston Environmental will offer remediation options and propose the most economic and timely technology consistent with the requirements of the problem and state regulations. These include among others, Excavation, Steam Enhanced Vapor Extraction, Air Sparging, Bioremediation, treatment with Hydrogen Peroxide or other oxygen generating compounds, or any combination of these. Boston Environmental will draw on the resources of other remediation specialists for specific services as required as in the case of thermal remediation where we partner with Continental Remediation for Thermal/Chemical remediation.

In many instances, sites can be closed by Method 3 Risk Assessment, whereby the consultants presents evidence on behalf of the client showing that the short and long term health of the occupants of the property and abutters will not be put at risk by the level of contamination present at the site. This approach requires a separate Activities and Use Limitation (AUL) be attached to the property deed limiting the uses of the site and requiring that any excavations work on the site must be conducted under the oversight of an Licensed Site Professional (LSP).

Boston Environmental & Engineering of Waltham Massachusetts can send a consultant to conduct a site assessment for soil and groundwater contamination for your residential, commercial, or industrial property.

Boston Environmental & Engineering
184 Riverview Avenue
Waltham, Massachusetts 02453
T: 781-891-0801
E: interest@BostonEnvironmental.com