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Release Investigation, Ashton ARSR Equipment Garage

Client: Federal Aviation Administration

Location: Island Park, Idaho

Value: $71,023

Completion Year: 2017

Scope of Work:

  • Drilling
  • Test pitting
  • Site restoration
  • Sampling and analysis

Brice performed a $71K release investigation (RI) for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) at the Air Route Surveillance Radar (ARSR) Equipment Garage located in Island Park, Idaho. The purpose of the RI was to investigate the condition of and potential contamination associated with up to three sumps that were plumbed to potential underground injection control (UIC) wells located in the garage.

Our field data collection, including analytical results for VOCs, SVOCs, and RCRA metals indicated that the potential UIC wells did not impact surrounding soil and groundwater. Brice recommended no further action and provided design criteria for the sumps to be upgraded to an intrinsic oil water separator system. These conclusions and recommendations were accepted by both the FAA and Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (IDEQ) with no comment.

Upon completion of the defensible RI including video imaging, drilling and test pitting, we restored the site to operational condition. Brice prepared a final report summarizing the field activities and our recommendations.

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Performance Highlights

  • Commended for our performance by Aemon Wetmore, FAA COR: The project was well planned and well executed. Field staff possessed a high level of technical proficiency as well as communication and interpersonal skills, which I find are often equally as important to the success of a project. The high quality field work performed by Brice combined with an excellent post project report allowed the regulators to close all three of the sites without the need for any remedial action; a result I would not have believed possible from the field observations.
  • Successfully met complex and diverse challenges of taking inventory, characterizing and disposing potentially hazardous materials associated with sumps in shop floors, UICs, and traditional site investigation of multi-media receptors
  • Completed the project on time and on budget and with zero safety incidents
  • Integrity
  • Honesty
  • Fairness