Environmental Remediation

Challenge:

• The site was formerly occupied by a refinery that operated from 1936 to 1984 on about 130 acres
• Site had been abandoned for over twenty years
• Former Superfund Site
• Site specific safety and health requirements
• Overgrown vegetation, dilapidated site conditions and abandoned product in pipelines, tanks and drums

Results:

• LWR provided turn-key decommissioning and remediation services at an abandoned refinery
• Performed tree and overgrown vegetation removal (site clearing) and installation of 12,100-lf of chain-link security fencing
• Improved site drainage components and upgraded impoundment containment berms to prevent off-site migration of material
• Inspected, sampled, transported and recycled or disposed of tanks and recycled the tank contents as fuel
• Tapped and drained site pipeline contents and coordinated with asbestos sub on abatement activities and recycled pipe materials
• Abatement and demolition of above ground structures included process units, buildings, storage tanks, piping and foundations
• Identified and managed 14 separate waste management units and processed the waste to disposal facilities off-site
• Installation of 1,200-tons of rip rap to armor line the system drainage swale
• 700 drums of waste material was discovered, sampled, profiled and sent off-site for appropriate disposal

Benefits:             

• LWR able to send a majority of the decommissioned tanks and piping for recycling and not waste disposal
• Recovered liquids were recycled as fuel and did not create additional waste and liability for the client
• All concrete was crushed and recycled for use on-site
• LWR was able to complete the project with no safety or security incidents