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| Waste Disposal – Critical Bulk Loads 7 days per week
|  Our client is a manufacturer located in Maryland. One of the by-products of their production process is waste cutting oil slurry consisting of 40% oil and 60% suspended solids. The client required a removal and disposal option for this waste. AEG Environmental developed a disposal plan and constructed a waste processing plant capable of managing this waste at our facility in Westminster, Maryland. AEG was contracted to remove waste oil-slurry for disposal on a daily basis. AEG retained this contract until the process generating the waste was replaced with an alternate system that does not generate waste slurry. In accordance with the contract, AEG was required to remove approximately 1,200 to 2,000 gallons of slurry 7 days per week, 365 days per year. Over the life of this contract, AEG removed and disposed over 1,500,000 gallons of this waste stream. Due to the limited waste storage capacity at the client facility, it was critical that this waste be removed at approximately the same time every day. Missing a pick-up by as little as 6 hours could cause the production facility to be shut down. In over 3 years the only day that AEG was not able to meet the time critical requirements was February 16, 2003. On this day, Maryland was in midst of the largest recorded snowstorm in history. The State Governor instituted a state of emergency for the entire state making it illegal for any non-essential vehicles to use state highways. Other than on this day, AEG performed over 1,100 pick-ups on time. There was never a production shut down due to our contract.
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| Waste Disposal in Support of the Anthrax Decontamination at the USPS Facility
| In October 2001 the United States of America was attacked by a biological terrorist using the agent Bacillus anthracis (Anthrax) as a weapon. The delivery method of the attack was the US Mail. One of the results of this attack was the contamination of the US Postal Service Brentwood Bulk Mail Facility located Washington, DC. The decontamination of this facility was a project of immense proportion requiring technologies and methods to be developed on an on-going basis. One of the by-products of the final decontamination process was a wastewater stream containing several dissolved contaminants. AEG Environmental was contracted to develop and implement a disposal plan for this waste stream. Working with a disposal facility in Ohio, AEG successfully developed a plan to manage the wastewater. Throughout the 13-week testing and final decontamination process AEG removed and disposed of over 600,000 gallons of wastewater from this facility. All waste was transported in tanker trucks from Washington DC, to Vickery Ohio. Due to the rapid rate of generation, limited storage capacity at the site, and below-freezing temperatures during most of the project it was critical that a strict time schedule be adhered to regarding the removal of this waste. AEG performed over 150 waste pick-ups without a single incident. During the 5-day final decontamination process, over 30 loads were removed and delivered on time by AEG. For its part in the project, the US Postal Service commended AEG Environmental. The Senior Project Manager John Bridges, who was voted the Registered Environmental Manager of the Year 2002, personally thanked AEG for our commitment and dedication to the project.
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| Emergency Response – Jet Fuel Spill at an Air Force Base
|  AEG Environmental received a call from our client reporting that they had a release of approximately 500 gallons of JP-8 Jet Fuel. The client informed AEG Environmental that fuel had been released into an area between an active runway and an active taxiway. AEG dispatched a team to the site and began characterizing the spill area. A fuel hydrant located on the flight line malfunctioned and released fuel directly into the soils. The soil make-up in the area was loose and sandy. This allowed the fuel to migrate deep into the ground in a very short period of time. AEG developed a Work Plan and a Site Specific Health and Safety Plan (HASP). Over a 6-day period, AEG excavated and transported off-site 2,045 tons of contaminated soil. The excavation was approximately 60,000 square feet in size; the average depth was over 5 feet deep. The transportation of contaminated soils out of the spill area, as well as the transportation of clean fill material into the area was very tedious. Each vehicle required complete cleaning and a Foreign Object Damage (FOD) check, as well as radio permission from the Flight Command Tower in order to cross the active taxiway. Over 200 dump trucks and other vehicles entered and exited the spill site throughout the clean-up project. The excavation and removal of contaminated soils was completed with little disruption to the operation of the flight line. AEG restored the spill site to original condition after all contamination had been remediated.
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| Emergency Spill Response – Traffic Paint Spill on a Busy Highway
|  AEG received a call from our client at 12:25 PM on Friday, July 1, 2004. The client described that a truck transporting 2,500 gallons of traffic paint had overturned and released its entire payload onto the highway and an adjacent museum property. AEG dispatched a response team and arrived on-site within 45 minutes. Upon receiving a briefing from the client, State Highway Administration and the State Department of the Environment, AEG established a Work Plan and completed a Site Specific Health and Safety Plan (HASP). This spill occurred on a two lane state highway that is a major route to Gettysburg, PA. Due to the extreme volume of traffic expected to utilize this highway into Gettysburg for the July 4th weekend, it was imperative that the highway be re-opened as soon as possible. AEG employed defensive measures to prevent the spilled paint from entering a nearby stream, removed all free liquids utilizing a vacuum tanker, and cleaned the road surface to a condition that allowed the highway to be re-opened. All contaminated soils were excavated; contaminated vegetation and debris were collected and containerized. All contaminated materials were loaded into roll-off containers and shipped for disposal.
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| Anthrax Decontamination
|  In October 2001 the United States of America was attacked by a biological terrorist using the agent Bacillus anthracis (Anthrax) as a weapon. The delivery method of the attack was the US Mail. One of the results of this attack was the contamination of building mailrooms in and around Washington, DC. Several buildings owned and occupied by the General Services Administration (GSA) were found to test positive for the presence of Anthrax spores. AEG was awarded a sole-source contract by GSA to decontaminate 4 mailrooms located at the GSA Headquarters and Regional Office Buildings located in downtown Washington, DC. The contract was later expanded to include the decontamination of the Department of Justice building in Landover, Maryland. AEG self performed the physical decontamination of over 15,000 square feet of contaminated building space over a 3-month period. All spaces were tested and found to be completely clean after the first cleaning by AEG. Because no civilian facilities had ever been heavily contaminated with anthrax, there was very little available information regarding the procedures and health and safety requirements of such a project. AEG was successful in developing a decontamination work plan that achieved the project objectives. AEG also developed and implemented a health and safety plan that resulted in no on-site exposures or injuries throughout the entire project.
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| PCB Extraction and Cleaning
|  General Services Administration (GSA), the owner and operator of most federal government facilities, had several buildings in Washington, DC in which electrical transformers containing polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) oil had been used. All of the PCB oil had been replaced, however due to historical spills the concrete floors in the transformer vaults were contaminated with PCBs. During the oil replacement process, the PCB-contaminated concrete floors were cleaned using a solvent wash protocol. After the cleaning, the floors were painted with epoxy paint. After several years of use, it was noticed that some of the paint was separating from the floor and flaking off. Further investigation indicated that PCB-contaminated transformer oil was leaching to the surface of the concrete causing the paint flake off. Additionally, this action re-contaminated the transformer vault with PCB-laden oil. AEG was contracted to survey the vaults, review a GSA-commissioned environmental assessment of the spaces and develop a work plan to remediate these vault floors with a non-destructive process. Our process included development of a site specific Health and Safety Plan (HASP), isolating the work area to prevent migration of contaminants, mechanical removal of the existing epoxy paint, chemical extraction of the remaining PCB-contaminated transformer oil from the concrete, and repainting of the floors with low-odor, high durability paint. GSA contracted with a third party consultant to collect numerous core samples from the concrete floor in each of the vaults. The sampling was performed after AEG completed the oil extraction process, but prior to repainting. The government required PCB levels of less than 25 ppm in order to be considered clean. All vaults remediated by AEG met this standard and the floors were repainted. AEG self-preformed all remediation activities while the buildings remained open and occupied. All work was performed without incident and finished as scheduled and within budget.
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Toll Free: 1-877-876-1100
Fax: 410-876-5641
Email: info@aegenviro.com
www.aegenviro.com
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