Client-Focused Problem Solving

Aquifer Solutions, Inc.

Specializes in Problem Solving!

Our mission is to assist in solving your site-specific problem, not to sell you any specific product or process. We understand that the needs of each project hinge on a wide range of non-technical issues as well as on the technical issues. For example, we have extensive international experience, where the key to bringing value to a project is to adapt your previous experience to a new situation, rather than impose a boilerplate approach.

While we are technical experts, we are also focused on non-technical aspects of projects. Our technical services are guided by our experience and expertise in the following service areas:

· Regulatory process management and negotiation

· Consensus / coordination of multiple parties

· Public presentations and public participation

· Litigation support and expert testimony

· International technology transfer

We have performed many unique projects, and have a wide range of experience that you can draw upon. Think of us as an outlet for environmental management support, as well as top-flight technical resources.

· A multi-party conflict existed for 10 years over the source of a contaminant plume, and was nearing litigation. We developed consensus among the parties on the investigation work scope to ensure acceptance of the results by all parties and the regulatory community. Geochemical fingerprinting was used to clearly delineated the source, and the conflict was resolved, allowing the project to proceed toward remediation.

· A US DOE weapons facility determined that all previously proven remediation approaches were infeasible for their contaminants and setting. We reviewed a range of innovative and emerging treatment technologies. We designed and performed lab and field treatability tests to demonstrate to stakeholders that these alternatives were possibly feasible. With our continued assistance, the facility is now moving forward and generating positive treatment results with these technologies that seven years ago were not even under consideration.

· A US DOD plant determined that it was unable to delineate the sources of groundwater contamination across a 120 acre open burning ground by the results of soil sample analyses. We designed and implemented a vadose zone characterization and monitoring program that delineated contaminant concentrations in pore water infiltrating to groundwater in areas that correlated to the groundwater plume. Coupled vadose zone and groundwater flow and transport modeling provided a basis to understand the source-groundwater interactions and evaluate remediation alternatives.

· An industrial PRP client hired Aquifer Solutions to design and implement in situ chemical oxidation as a means to control off site migration of chlorinated solvents. After a pilot-phase of in situ treatment, we recognized that a different technology would be more effective based on the site specific conditions. We then initiated the field application of in situ bioremediation at the site, which is more effectively controlling the groundwater plume.

· A family-trust owned industrial PRP without prior environmental management experience was faced with the difficult choice of selecting a remediation contractor to prepare their site for a transfer of ownership. Aquifer Solutions was selected to perform the project, because we developed an overall project strategy that defined the complete path to regulatory closure. By focusing first on the big-picture issue of site stategy, Aquifer Solutions was able to help the client understand and become more comfortable with the site cleanup process. As the project has progressed, our technology-independent remediation evaluation has resulted in a balanced and very cost-effective technical remediation approach that integrates several different treatment technologies, including monitoring of natural attenuation.