Contaminated Land Assessment and Remediation

M&A provides comprehensive consulting services for contaminated land assessment, follow-up subsurface investigation, negotiations and site cleanup remedy design and implementation. We focus on identifying implementing practical solutions that help our clients achieve regulatory compliance and meet business objectives. M&A's services are individually tailored to meet specific client needs.

Environmental Site Assessment
  • Pre-acquisition/pre-lease "due diligence" audits, environmental site desk studies and focused subsurface investigations
  • Regulatory compliance pathway identification and evaluation
  • Rapid adaptive site characterisation
  • Contaminant delineation in various environmental media
  • Clean-up cost estimation in support of purchase and sales agreements, lease terms, and escrow accounts
  • Groundwater evaluation and modelling
  • Risk characterisation and management strategies
 Contaminated Land Redevelopment Services
  • Environmental assessment and analysis
  • Environmental compliance pathway identification and evaluation
  • Site redevelopment, premium identification and cost estimation
  • Design, bidding, and construction-phase services
  • Risk management strategies
  • Public outreach
 Contaminated Land Remediation Services
  • Multi-media contaminant fate, transport, and remediation modelling
  • Soil/groundwater remediation system design and implementation
  • Remediation system design, construction, start-up, operation, and maintenance
 Legal Counsel Services
  • Regulatory liaison and negotiation support
  • Practical technical/regulatory insights into real-world solutions to complex regulatory matters
  • Independent peer reviews of third-party environmental assessments and cleanups
  • Site clean-up cost estimation and assignment
  • Litigation support including expert witness testimony
 Underground Storage Tank (UST) Management
  • UST inventory surveys
  • Regulatory applicability and interpretation
  • UST in-place closures, removals, upgrades/replacements, and cleanups
 Field Support Services
  • Manage comprehensive design, tender and construction phases to affect environmental cost control
  • Deliver fast-tracked environmental site assessments tailored to meet client objectives, obligations and schedules
  • Resolve environmental compliance challenges to achieve regulatory closure and successful outcomes
  • Tailor contaminated land redevelopment programmes to meet client needs and overcome site constraints
  • Design and implement practical contaminated land remediation strategies
  • Support legal counsel with technical/regulatory insights and common-sense solutions
  • Provide independent environmental consultant peer reviews to guide clients through complex technical/regulatory issues
  • Deliver effective underground storage tank management solutions
  • Deliver comprehensive field support services
 Environmental Contractor Coordination
  • Contract document design and bidding phase services
  • Construction-phase observational services
  • Risk management strategies
  • Project close-out services

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