Site Investigation and Remediation

Early detection and investigation of a UST release is crucial to maintaining compliance and mitigating risk to the environment and receptors. ENCORE® can provide rapid investigation services when receptors are at risk. Ultimately, this helps minimize environmental risk.

ENCORE® has investigated hundreds of releases in the southwest. We have a comprehensive understanding of diverse hydrogeological conditions, required drilling methods, and sampling techniques. Our team gathers and interprets all the necessary data with the goal of completing site characterization quickly and as cost-efficiently as possible. ENCORE® also conducts Phase I and Phase II Environmental Site Assessments to identify and mitigate environmental risks in property transactions, insurance, and refinancing. Being thoroughly trained on the latest ASTM standard, our scientists and engineers perform targeted subsurface investigations to minimize liabilities, ensuring informed decisions and supporting negotiations.

ENCORE® implements cost-effective and efficient remediation programs. Testing and design is the crucial first step. We do this to prepare our clients and their sites for timely and cost-efficient remediation, and it’s how we’ve successfully remediated an extensive portfolio of soil and groundwater sites. And it doesn’t stop there, as we consider remediation a dynamic process that requires us to constantly challenge the program to perform at its best by using quantitative and qualitative data and observations. This also means that we’re able to pivot if we need to, instead of forcing a solution to fit the scenario.

Risk-based closure can be a very complex process within the energy industry. ENCORE® has years of experience conducting risk assessments when the governing agency allows, or when further remediation is not feasible. Our understanding of contaminant fate and transport, hydrogeological conditions, natural attenuation, and potential receptors allow us to navigate the risk assessment process in a way that eliminates future liabilities.