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Background The Ohio Creek Watershed includes two historic neighborhoods of Norfolk, VA – Chesterfield Heights and Grandy Village - which are especially vulnerable to flooding. During rain events and sometimes even during high tides, water from the Elizabeth River submerges and renders impassable one of the only two roadways connecting…

APTIM's scope of CCR work at the NRG Brandywine coal ash pond includes the final closure cap on 110 acres of coal ash storage cells. Services provided include: Tree clearing and processing through historic area Recycle material offsite Installation of Environmental & Sustainability (E&S) Controls Protect transmission assets Baseline survey…

APTIM became the coastal engineering consultant to Manatee County in 1989, and has continually provided engineering services for the County’s coastal program since that time. The initial Federally-authorized beach nourishment project was completed in early 1993, at which time approximately 2.32 million cubic yards of sand was placed over a…

APTIM performed a turnaround (TAR) on Marathon Ashland’s 120,000 BPSD FCCU in Garyville, Louisiana. APTIM was responsible for the following design and detailed engineering: Jigstands for the erection and assembly of the new reactor head and cyclones and for the support of the existing reactor head and cyclones. Lift plans…

APTIM's Laboratory Operations team provides quality assurance technical support (QATS) support to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation (OSRTI) Analytical Services Branch (ASB). This includes support to ASB in their management of the EPA Contract Laboratory Program (CLP) and support to the 10…

BACKGROUND Louisiana’s Strategic Adaptation for Future Environments (LA SAFE) is a community-focused resilience and adaptation policy framework focused on helping coastal communities develop a common vision to plan for and implement statewide, regional, and parish-specific long-term resilient and adaptive strategies around future flood risk and vulnerability, predicted land loss, population…

A History of Vulnerability to Rising Water Levels Over the past 20 years, coastal Louisiana has continuously lost protection provided by barrier islands and wetlands. Hurricanes Rita, Katrina, Gustav, Ike, and Isaac have had a marked impact on this reduction. As such, St. Mary Parish has become increasingly susceptible to…

Background Immediately following Hurricanes Irma and Maria, 1,100+ public schools in Puerto Rico required a health, safety, and environment assessment as part of disaster recovery to determine which schools could immediately be reopened or required minimal work to make them safe prior to reopening. The Puerto Rico Department of Education…

APTIM's PFAS specialists provide PFOA/PFOS drinking water compliance sampling support services to a Department of Defense (DOD) client in California. These support services began with one facility in 2013 with recent expansion to cover ten (10) different facilities with more than forty (40) different sampling locations. State regulatory protocols for sample…

APTIM's environmental solutions team completed removal of unacceptable C8 Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF) and replaced it with new MilSpec C6 AFFF at twenty DoD installations in the Southeast US. The work was funded under the US Army Corps of Engineers Huntsville MEGA Contract. The sites included a mix of…