Specific Services and Capabilities by SIN

SIN 899-1 ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING SERVICES AND DOCUMENTATION

A Proven Approach
Regulations placed on new development make it increasingly important for approvals and permits to be obtained in a timely manner. Furthermore, agency compliance with recent regulations in developing land management plans is necessary to ensure agency plans and land holdings meet regulatory requirements. Parametrix has successfully planned and obtained permits and determined compliance with regulations for the simplest to the most complex infrastructure, land management, and development projects. Our proven approach involves working with project planners, scientists, and engineers early in the development process to develop concepts that avoid, minimize, and/or mitigate environmental impacts and meet applicable laws and regulations. We are also able to select project options that are technically and economically feasible. Using this approach, we are able to expedite the environmental compliance and permitting processes, thus lowering project costs and minimizing schedule delays. Environmental laws and regulations that Parametrix routinely uses in evaluating project compliance include:

How It Works
Our permitting specialists apply lessons learned, combined with long standing agency relationships, to prepare resource management plans, EIS/EAs and permit documents and acquire permits efficiently, thoroughly and as quickly as possible. The key to our permitting success has been to communicate and keep projects moving forward. We have developed a communications strategy that integrates our clients with the permitting agencies to set attainable project completion goals. It is the experience and an established and consistent staff, that has built Parametrix' reputation for excellence in permitting and planning.

Permit Application Review
Parametrix has provided support to several federal agencies by reviewing permit applications. For example, for over 5 years Parametrix has assisted the City of Bellevue, WA in reviewing clear and grade permits in sensitive areas. Our experience includes obtaining permits from federal, state, and local governments, utilities, air quality authorities, and other permitting agencies. We are frequently involved in large municipal projects that require multiple permits. This requires extensive coordination to ensure that the project is not delayed due to permits getting stalled in the review process.

Planning and Documentation expertise includes:

SIN 899-4 WASTE MANAGEMENT SERVICES

Parametrix has a wide range of expertise in waste management services. Our professionals have conducted a wide number of studies focused on data collection and site characterization at hazardous waste sites with single contaminant sources and sites with multiple chemical sources (ongoing, historical). Often, an analysis of hazard and exposure potential is required to help establish the need for cleanup in engineering feasibility studies, and our risk science professionals fill this need. In some instances, Parametrix is asked to simply provide expertise on source reduction strategies to support site cleanup activities.

Parametrix is often called upon to conduct specialized investigations for the purpose of identifying, isolating, and reducing ongoing and historical sources of contamination. Whether it is a focused source investigation or a full service remedial investigation and feasibility study (RI/FS), our experts (many certified) in geology, hydrogeology, and chemical and environmental engineering at Parametrix will tailor solutions to fit our clients’ needs and to the scale of the problem at hand. Parametrix’s waste management professionals also frequently conduct environmental site assessments and preliminary assessments to support site development and linear and areawide planning projects. Our staff includes engineers, geologists, and hydrogeologists skilled in determining the presence or potential for release of hazardous substances into structures, groundwater, surface water, or soils. Our staff is familiar with technical guidelines and state and federal regulations governing investigations and analy sis. Parametrix maintains complete resources for hazardous waste research, analytical sampling, and testing.

With the increasing importance of sustainability to our clients and the general public, Parametrix prides itself on providing sustainable solutions to the cleanup of hazardous waste sites and to the streamlining of our clients’ ongoing operations by incorporating both recycling and reuse technologies whenever possible.

The waste management business continues to evolve. Recycling and composting facilities are playing an increasingly important role, as are transfer stations, collecting wastes for “long-haul” to larger, regional landfills. Communities and institutions are critically evaluating the cost-effectiveness and long-term liability of remaining in the collection and disposal business, versus negotiating contracts, often with lower cost private sector operators. Performance, value, and cost continue to be the key factors driving the solid waste business, including the criteria used to select solid waste engineering services. Parametrix understands these issues well and has over 30 years of experience serving clients in the waste management business.

Waste Management expertise Includes:

SIN 899-7 GIS SERVICES

Parametrix provides full-service GIS support to our clients, with services ranging from data creation and acquisition to analysis and mapping. We provide solutions to environmental analysis problems by creating GIS-based approaches for obtaining reliable and repeatable results and preparing effective map presentations. Our staff design and plan a database for each project. Planning and design involves working with clients and project staff to identify data sources, analyses, and maps necessary for completing a project. We identify and acquire existing data for project use to reduce costs for our clients.

Parametrix staff are also experienced in combining the acquired data sets into a single coordinate system for mapping and analysis. We have extensive experience creating and editing data sets from hardcopy maps, aerial photographs, AutoCAD data, and other sources. Our data creation and editing procedures include documentation and quality assurance / quality control (QA/QC) steps to ensure that our work is traceable and accurate.

Our project experience includes a wide range of analyses for a variety of project types, including planning, permitting, monitoring, and mitigation. To ensure that our analyses and results are traceable, repeatable, and documented, we program our analyses using macros. Parametrix has prepared check maps for QA/QC, working maps for field and office staff, document figures, and public display maps. We design maps to be clear and concise, and we easily incorporate customer - or project-specific documents and map/figure formats.

Parametrix uses digital images to provide a base for preparing maps, creating new data sets, or modifying existing data sets. We use several computer-based GIS programs and plotting devices to meet our clients' needs. Our systems are networked to share resources and data among project staff.

Parametrix's GIS system capabilities include:

GIS expertise Includes:

SIN 899-8 REMEDIATION SERVICES

The remediation of previous hazardous waste management practices continues to present a challenge to property owners, developers, and facility operators. Whether the issue is a simple property transfer, cleanup of onsite contamination, or participation in a broader cleanup action, the legal and economic hurdles can often be significant. Parametrix has been a leader in developing creative solutions to hazardous waste problems for many years.

We have been supporting clients for years on investigating, characterizing, and gaining closure on a wide variety of contaminated properties ranging from small and localized (such as aboveground or underground storage tanks) to large and complex. Remediation services we provide across a broad spectrum of hazardous waste site types include excavation, removal, treatment, and disposal. Recycling and reuse are also hallmarks of our work on sites where sustainable practices are important aspects in site remediation and redevelopment. We are also often called upon to provide long-term monitoring programs and long-term operations for closed waste sites because these programs provide an important feedback loop on the continued success of, and degree of success of, implemented remedial solutions. For our clients, this includes monitoring of air, landfill gas, groundwater quality, surface water and sediment quality, and contaminant loads in biological tissues.

Maintaining operations of ongoing remedial technologies is another hallmark of Parametrix’s success in providing remedial services to our clients, such as our work on the Midway Landfill near Seattle, Washington, where we have been monitoring landfill gas and overseeing the operation of the landfill gas collection system for nearly two decades. From Phase I environmental site assessments to multi-party Superfund cleanups, Parametrix scientists and engineers work to minimize client liability and cost, expedite cleanups, and develop creative, agency-approved, risk-based, technical solutions to hazardous waste management. Our staff thoroughly understands the regulations that drive and affect remediation and is experienced in groundwater, surface water, soil, sediment, and air remediation.

Parametrix remediation expertise Includes: