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Decontamination & Demolition ECI offers its customers complete, turnkey expertise for facility closures. We specialize in complex and difficult decontamination and demolition ( D & D ) projects. ECI provides full service asbestos and lead abatement capabilities to compliment its facility closure offering. ECl's full time, professionally trained personnel have experience working with all types of projects including vinyl floor tiling, spray-on acoustical ceilings, boiler blankets, fireproofing, pipe insulation, fire doors, and oven bricks. Plant Closures Decommissioning Asbestos and Lead Abatement ECI has the capability to provide full service asbestos management. In order to provide turnkey project performance through ECI, asbestos services continue to be enhanced with full time trained professionals and technicians. ECI has the resources to complete both large abatements and small spot abatement activities. Abatement experience extends to all types of asbestos contaminated material and coverings. ECI owns and maintains all removal equipment, including negative air machines, personal protective equipment, and air monitoring equipment Waste Management On-Site Services ECI provides onsite facility maintenance programs for numerous manufacturing and production facilities. We utilize a dedicated and experienced staff of environmental professionals and skilled field personnel to become an integrated part of each customer's environmental organization and function as an extension of that group. The ECI crew will provide onsite daily services in conjunction with in - house environmental staff, or they may be scheduled on an as needed basis. Services may include drum labeling, spill clean up, lab packing, or a full-scale waste management plan. As part of the turn-key waste management program, ECI conducts on-going chemical packaging services, including miscellaneous acids, alkaline chemicals, poisons, cyanides, flammables, oxidizers, beryllium, and other laboratory chemicals. Field chemists are given special training to perform lab-packing operations. With the implementation of standardized waste packaging procedures and a proprietary ECI waste management computer tracking system, waste is packaged & shipped off-site for disposal. Drums are properly labeled in DOT shipping containers, and profiled for disposal. ECl's field chemists will complete any hazardous waste documentation for proper authorization from the client. ECI will then schedule for transportation services to the proper Treatment Storage Disposal Facility (TSDF). Above-ground Storage Tank (AST) Underground Storage Tank (UST) Each project, small or large, has its unique specifications that requires new ideas to be implemented to cost effectively manage the project. ECl's talented project managers and field technicians provide the needed experience to perform all UST removal and service projects safely and efficiently. Procedures are implemented in accordance with all rules and regulations, including American Petroleum Institute (API) and OSHA requirements. ECl's services include permitting, removal, remediation, and regulatory closure. ECI has established itself with the expertise and confidence to manage your UST removal needs. Remediation Services ECI has experience managing in-situ as well as ex-situ remediation projects. ECl's resume includes stabilization /fixation of contaminated soil, bioremediation,mobile thermal desorption, soil washing, excavation and transportation. It is ECl's diversity that allows our customers to benefit from utilizing ECI to manage their remedial projects. Fixation/stabilization experience includes: Converting semi - solid or sludge wastes to a solid form having good structural integrity and reduced permeability for landfill disposal. Reducing the potential for release of toxic or highly hazardous materials during storage or handling through elimination of free liquid. Improving the physical strength characteristics of soils to enable construction or remediation activities. Bioremediation experience includes the installation of treatment systems and the completion of pilot tests. ECI is capable of installing both ex-situ and in-situ systems, and maintains a full contingent of experts for supporting the projects where bioremediation offers the most cost- effective benefit. ECI has developed relationships with selected thermal desorption companies to provide effective onsite, as well as offsite, thermal treatment capabilities. This includes both low and high temperature operations. ECI has utilized these relationships to remediate a wide variety of contaminated sites. ECI has experience and expertise in using soil-washing processes to reduce volumes of contaminated material by treating the material to acceptable levels. Virtually every remediation project involves some form of excavation or earth moving. ECI generates an excavation plan to ensure worker safety, containment of pollutants, and compliance with applicable regulations. Earth moving is often an element of larger actions, such as, containing and controlling releases, stabilization, slurry trenching, stream diversion, and source removal.The experts at ECI provide the most responsible and cost-effective site remediation services in the industry with complete understanding of all state and federal regulations. ECI manages a variety of contaminated sites, including PCBs, dioxins, furans, pesticides, and many types of organic and inorganic chemicals. Industrial Cleaning Services ECI maintains a dedicated staff and equipment to perform an array of industrial services including tank cleaning, steam cleaning, hydroblasting, pressure washing, separator cleaning, dewatering and dry vacuum loaders (supersuckers). This group performs tasks in the petroleum production facilities, chemical manufacturing plants, and other types of production facilities. ECI employees have experience with cleaning storage tanks containing materials such as: petroleum oil, sodium hydroxide, sulfuric acid, hydrofluoric acid, methylene chloride, styrene, and numerous other hazardous materials. Often, the industrial cleaning services coincide with other ECI offerings to allow clients to utilize turnkey services, thus benefiting the customer with one point of contact and only one invoice. A single point of contact allows for a more efficient environmental and maintenance program. ECI enables its customers to minimize waste at their sites. This is accomplished by utilizing our trained personnel to formulate strategies, evaluate cost effectiveness, ensure safety, and reduce risks. Dewatering, utilized to treat waste at a facility, minimizes a generator's costs. ECI has the capabilities and the expertise to perform any dewatering project. Our systems are set to remove trace organics, suppress sulfide oxidation, destroy amines, neutralize acids/bases, remove metals, and solidify sludges. ECI also performs liquid/solid separation services utilizing plate and frame filtration, belt and filter presses, and oil / water separation systems. EMERGENCY RESPONSE Immediate and comprehensive response to a hazardous material emergency can minimize adverse health effects, environmental damage and financial liability. The focal points for providing emergency response services for ECI are the Torrance, California Facility and the Richmond, California Facility. These facilities staff and maintain a 24-hour emergency hotline and dispatching service. This allows ECI to react instantly to all types of emergencies with properly trained personnel and state of the art equipment. All incoming call are documented through ECl's dispatch center, which is equipped with personnel rosters and paging systems to allow the dispatcher to deploy the individuals with the most experience working with certain spills and the employee that can respond in the shortest period of time.. In depth knowledge regarding hazardous materials and the ability to apply this knowledge during emergencies is essential for the successful management of the release. ECl's response teams consist of experienced technicians who have endured extensive training,including classroom and demonstration. Field exercises are performed to develop expertise in safety, equipment operation, hazard recognition and evaluation. Regardless of the emergency - train derailment, chemical spill on land or water, production facility leak, or industrial accident, ECI has the resources to control, remove and dispose of hazardous materials. ECI offers clients complete response, 24 hours per day, with proven capabilities. 24 hour dispatch 800-236-7324 Transportation and Temporary Storage Tanks ECI owns and operates one of the largest and most complete fleets of waste transportation vehicles in California as well as portable storage tanks for a multitude of products. Vehicles and equipment are both Department of Transportation (DOT) and California Highway Patrol (CHP) certified and fully insured. ECI has developed a reputation for high quality and consistent service that extends to all industries, including refineries, aerospace, chemical, remediation, and manufacturing. Considering the size of ECl's operation, the number of terminals, the maintenance program, the drivers, and our intense desire to provide timely response, it is easy to see why clients consider our services second to none. ECI operates terminals in Torrance, Fontana, Ventura, and Richmond, California, as well as in Phoenix, Arizona. From these terminals, ECI provides its clients with bulk solid, bulk liquid, and drum transportation services. ECI offers roll-off bins, end dump trailers, vacuum trucks, super suckers, van and stakebed trucks to assist its customers with transportation needs to anywhere in the United States. ECl's portable storage tanks meet unique on-site storage demands and are perfect to supplement existing onsite tank capacity. Class A, Easy Clean Crown Tanks, and Polyethylene Tanks may be deployed from all ECI terminals, providing immediate storage services for our customers. Tank Processing / Reclamation ECI owns and operates two permitted tank decontamination facilities in California. Northern California is serviced from our Richmond Facility and Southern California is serviced from our Fontana Facility. Each of these facilities is structured and equipped to manage various size tanks. ECl's facilities keep up with the latest federal, state, and local guidelines to assure you that your project will be completed within the regulatory requirements. Trained technicians handle the details of your tank removal from the time we begin to manage it at your site through the decontamination processing at our permitted facilities. The program includes: Thorough decontamination of the tank(s) and disposal of the removed material to eliminate your liability. Geo Science Services The geosciences group at ECI has extensive capabilities in soil and groundwater investigations and remediation. The regulatory compliance and remediation experience of ECl's staff of registered geologists and environmental engineers has resulted in successful closure at hundreds of client sites throughout California. Remedial technologies and methods used to negotiate site closure include : · Geoprobe Services At ECI we believe in achieving cost-effective closure, using the appropriate technology for each site, by evaluating the individual site characteristics, including the contaminant(s)of concern, geology, hydrogeology, regulatory agency interactions, and current regulatory guidelines. Our first priority is achieving regulatory closure as rapidly as possible with superior technical specialists and the highest quality services. |