Environmental Projects
Typical Environmental Projects
- Nordstrom Redevelopment of Fredrick & Nelson Department Store- Seattle, Washington:
Cornerstone development project in revitalization of downtown Seattle core shopping district. Adapt’s scope of work included preparing a feasibility study of the viability of the project in relation to possible environmental and geotechnical concerns. Estimates of potential liabilities and costs associated with asbestos, lead-based paint, and underground storage tanks within the structure and associated parking garage were provided for budgeting purposes during project financing phase. Adapt provided presentations and liaison services between owners, Nordstrom Store Planning, architects, city government and contractors, as well as oversight and documentation of remediation and abatement activities during demolition and construction phases of project.
- Frederickson Site, Frederickson, Washington:
Adapt conducted forensics studies to determine the source, fate and transport and remediation alternatives for a chlorinated solvent plume affecting the private drinking water wells of Frederickson, Washington. Source property had been sold to a major airplane manufacturer by a lending institution that had foreclosed on the property in the 1980s. The lending institution was subsequently targeted as a responsible party by State regulators. Adapt’s scope of work for the lending institution included testing of drinking water supplies, providing peer review on previous work, evaluation of existing subsurface data to delineate contaminated plume fate and transport characteristics, evaluation of most likely potentially liable parties based upon historical evidence, and advising on remedial alternatives. Adapt provided presentations and liaison services between involved parties. The remediation liability was successfully transferred to chemical companies originally involved in use of solvents on the site in the 1940s and 1950s.
- Skykomish Environmental Coalition, Skykomish Washington:
Decades long fueling activities at a major railroad maintenance yard contributed to a free and dissolved petroleum product plume, as well as heavy metal and PCB contamination affecting the majority of properties in the City of Skykomish, WA. RI/FS activities were initiated by the responsible party. By way of a funding grant from State regulators, the Skykomish Environmental Coalition, school board and city government collectively retained Adapt personnel to provide technical review, advice and public education/presentations regarding ongoing remediation activities. Starting 12th year of involvement
- Bellefield Office Park, Bellevue, Washington:
A fifty-six acre construction debris landfill, surrounded by surface waters and developed with piling-supported twenty year old office park structures, that was previously given No Further Action status by the EPA and Washington State Department of Ecology was re-characterized during the due diligence phase of a 20 million dollar property transfer. Heavy metals, PAHs, PCBs, pesticides, petroleum hydrocarbons and solvents were encountered in soil and groundwater samples collected from eighteen monitoring wells on the property creating liability concerns for the potential purchasers. Adapt personnel were retained by the site owner, a California lending institution, to provide technical review and advice, and to provide liaison services between the prospective purchaser and regulators. Adapt personnel demonstrated contaminants were immobile, that no dissolved phase contaminants were present in nearby surface waters, and secured a favorable review and closure with regulators.