Drilling & Probing

Project Description

The Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend complex is located on 181 acres along the McKenzie River in Springfield, Oregon, and opened in August 2008. Two (2) underground storage tanks (USTs), each having a nominal capacity of 40,000 gallons, were installed at the facility for storage of diesel fuel associated with an emergency electrical power supply system for the facility.

Project Description

The subject property is currently a vacant parcel that was acquired by the City of Silverton as part of the Oregon Garden site. The subject site was formerly utilized for vehicle repair and fuel storage using underground storage tanks (USTs). Previous investigations included Phase I and Phase II Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs). Project tasks included: UST decommissioning activities, petroleum contaminated soil (PCS) cleanup, and completion of a Remedial Investigation and Feasibility Study (RI/FS) including a human health and ecological risk assessment.

Project Description

On August 16, 2004, a truck and tanker trailer rounding a curve on Highway 99E ran onto the graveled shoulder and edge of an open stormwater drainage ditch. The tanker trailer struck a utility pole adjacent to the stormwater ditch, rolled onto its side, and came to rest on the west side of the highway near the entrance to a recreational motor vehicle assembly plant and retail automotive service station.

Project Description

On September 8, 2003, a fixed frame tanker and tanker trailer crashed on Oregon State Highway 38 near mile marker 19 within the community of Greenacres, Oregon. During the crash the tanker trailer overturned, ruptured, and spilled approximately 6,200 gallons of gasoline. Subsequent accidental ignition of the spill resulted in a fire that killed several trees, spread into the lawn of an adjacent residence, and further damaged the roadway.

Project Description

Operating under the Unified Command System (UCS), which included representatives from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), US Forest Service, Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT), Army Corps of Engineers, and the City of Salem, BB&A Environmental provided the technical lead in the environmental assessment and mitigation of an 11,000-gallon gasoline spill which occurred along Highway 22 adjacent to Detroit Reservoir east of Salem, Oregon.

Project Description

The nature of the business at the project site required storage of bulk motor oil, hydraulic oil, waste oil, antifreeze, batteries, and smaller quantities of hazardous materials. The subject property historically operated numerous underground storage tanks (USTs), production water wells, underground injection control (UIC) structures, and cesspools. Prior to operation as a trucking facility, the subject property was used to manufacture pipe and finished materials were shipped via an adjacent railroad spur.

Project Description

BB&A Environmental was retained by Sacred Heart Medical Center to perform a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) of the hospital campus which includes commercial properties in a multi-block area located in Eugene, Oregon.

Project Description

BB&A Environmental conducted a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) to assess current and future environmental liability associated with the subject property due to former on-site operations and/or potential environmental trespass from nearby light industrial and manufacturing facilities.

Project Description

Project management included design and installation of chemical oxidation (CO) and soil vapor extraction (SVE) systems to reduce soil and groundwater contaminants to concentrations below risk-based concentrations (RBCs) for applicable receptors and exposure pathways. The project is ongoing and has been implemented in two (2) phases. Phase I targeted remediation of gasoline-range total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) in soil and groundwater beneath, and adjacent to, the footprint of the on-site building.

Project Description

The project site is a retail service station facility located in Veneta, Oregon. Below-ground releases of gasoline at the subject property dating back to 1979 resulted in on-site and off-site soil and groundwater impact beneath a broad area.

In 1991, two (2) independently operated groundwater pump-and-treat systems were installed to process groundwater impacted by the release and control plume migration.