Agricultural Chemical Assessments
Agricultural chemical transport, storage, and handling practices
are increasingly identified with impacts to soil, surface water,
and groundwater resources. Today's challenges are to minimize
existing environmental impacts by identifying and removing sources
of potential contamination before groundwater or surface water
resources are significantly impacted and to remediate sites where
contamination has already occurred.
Capabilities
Summit provides the following agricultural chemical services:
- Consulting services regarding the reporting of chemical release
incidents and necessary actions to minimize risk to public health
and the environment;
- Coordination of site investigations with federal and state
agencies, including rules pertaining to state reimbursement
programs, and completion of remedial investigations to assess
the magnitude and extent of a chemical release;
- Design and implementation of accepted corrective action plans
to remediate contamination; and
- Completing site assessments for property transfers and potential
environmental liability.
Summit continues to be an industry leader in the application
of site assessment technologies to agricultural chemical cleanup
projects. Because the current "acceptable" levels of
pesticide and fertilizer residues in soil and groundwater are
relatively low, it is of utmost importance that site assessment
and cleanup techniques provide accurate assessment of a site’s
physical characteristics and chemical distribution. Summit accomplishes
these objectives using innovative technologies such as Rotasonic
drilling, Geoprobe sampling and analytical methods, field analytical
probes, and advanced visualization software. Our excellent working
relationship with the agricultural chemical regulatory and reimbursement
programs has been critical to the successful closure of spill
release sites.
Summit has helped pave the way for use of new remedial techniques
such as vegetative cover. This promising and relatively cost effective
method is well suited for the remediation of pesticides and fertilizers
that are not easily removed by excavation. Current project sites
have been planted with trees to remediate large areas containing
fertilizers, pesticides, and petroleum hydrocarbons. Contact a
member of Summit’s Agricultural Chemical Assessment and
Remediation Team for more information regarding our capabilities
and resources.
