For a summary listing of services, see Services Overview.pdf. For details on many of our Services, see below or by selecting one of the items in the box above.

Air Quality Management

EMS Environmental provides comprehensive air quality management services to help our clients plan operational strategies that will achieve compliance with air pollution regulations at a minimal cost and maximum operational flexibility.

Services include regulatory compliance and permitting, inventory of emissions, air pollutant emission monitoring, air dispersion modeling, pollutant toxicity assessment, and fugitive emission studies. A thorough knowledge of control technologies coupled with expertise in production practices are the keys to EMS Environmental's air quality management capabilities.

• Air quality regulatory compliance
  
• Title V operating permits
  
• Emission inventories
  
• Ambient air monitoring and point source emissions testing
  
• Dispersion modeling
  
• Pollutant toxicity assessments
  
• Fugitive emission studies
  
• Air pollution control strategies and engineering
  
• Regulatory assistance
  

Energy Consumption Analysis

The most important step in reducing your energy cost is to understand where that energy is being consumed. With an e-Use™ Analysis from EMS Environmental, you can get the information to direct where your investments and business practice changes would have the most impact and begin to improve your energy efficiency and reduce your energy waste.

• Energy usage breakdown reconciled to utility bills
  
• Framework for longer-term feasibility/design and procurement specifications
  
• Industry comparisons
  
• Priority breakdown of energy saving opportunities, impacts and costs
  
• Energy usage improvement implementation
  
• Monitoring of energy usage performance
  
• Third-party assessment of energy usage recommendations and/or implementation

e-Use Analysis.pdf

Your company is focused on delivering the best products and service to your customers. Rather than staff for the many potential environmental circumstances, sometimes it is better to have a full-service environmental firm to turn to for regular audits, risk assessment, permitting and/or remediation. EMS Environmental offers services appropriate to your needs with available resources to address a broad scope of issues and resource requirements.

• Company overall compliance management
  
• Supplement in-house capabilities and/or capacity

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Environmental Site Assessment and Investigation

The potential for soil and groundwater contamination due to past land use practices and the possible presence of hazardous waste or materials on a property is a major concern during the purchase or sale of commercial and industrial properties. Buyers, sellers, developers, insurers and lending agencies are faced with a multitude of environmental regulations and on-going changes to cleanup standards and environmental programs. Routine environmental site assessments (ESAs) may be conducted to evaluate these concerns and to minimize the risk to buyers, sellers, and financial institutions. Some states and many lenders are requiring environmental site assessments prior to the transfer, sale, or foreclosure of industrial and commercial properties.

• Phase I and II site assessments
• Brownfields
• Cleanup cost estimates
• Operational audits of current conditions
• Soil and groundwater testing
• Geophysical survey for buried structures or materials
• GeoProbe services

Environmental Site Compliance and Permitting

To ensure a site's compliance with regulations, EMS Environmental provides environmental compliance reviews and audits for operating facilities or properties being acquired in order to minimize potential environmental risks. Our Compliance reviews establish a baseline of information that will enable clients to focus their efforts, and allocate resources to address specific regulatory compliance issues.

• Air pollution emissions sources
• Compliance reviews and audits for operating facilities or acquisition properties
  
• Emergency planning and community right-to know
• Hazard communication
• Hazardous substances release reporting
• Industrial wastewater discharge
• Solid and hazardous waste management
• Spill prevention control and countermeasures
• Storage tank management
• Stormwater discharge
• Toxic substances control
  

Geology and Hydrogeology

EMS Environmental offers clients geologic and hydrogeologic services in a wide range of environmental applications. Our experienced geologists and hydrogeologists perform groundwater qualitative analysis and assessments; determine aquifer hydrogeologic characteristics through aquifer test data collection, evaluation, reduction, and analysis. In addition, EMS Environmental offers geophysical studies design and evaluation, and subsurface geotechnical investigations.

• Aquifer testing and hydrogeologic analysis
• Geophysical studies, design and evaluation
• Groundwater modeling
• Groundwater qualitative analysis and assessments
• Sinkhole investigation/remediation
• Subsurface geotechnical investigations
  

GeoProbe

EMS Environmentall offers GeoProbe services to obtain core samples for site assessment as a standalone service or combined with additional environmental services.

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Green Services

EMS Environmental offers clients a wide range of green services that build on nearly twenty years of environmental engineering and manufacturing analysis experience typically not combined in one firm.

• Carbon offset analysis
• Closed-loop manufacturing analysis
• Energy efficiency analysis
• Environmental footprint analysis
• Green business assessment
• Packaging environmental analysis
• Recycling, re-use, re-constitution analysis
• Renewable energy feasibility and implementation
• Resource-use analysis
• Supply-chain environmental analysis
• Waste-stream analysis
• Water conservation and recycling

Indoor Air Quality

EMS Environmental's multi-disciplined staff offers a broad range of services to investigate and remediate indoor air quality issues related to biological or chemical agents. EMS Environmental's investigations of bioaerosol-related hazards describe what biological or other agents may be present, the environmental conditions that may contribute to their presence, how the agents may affect building occupants, the means by which bioaerosols may reach humans and what can be done to prevent exposure. When our staff conducts remediation of buildings contaminated with bioaerosol related hazards, we select procedures based upon the type of organism or chemical, the types of building materials impacted, and the extent of contamination. EMS Environmental personnel are experienced with minimal to full-containment remedial procedures.

• Mold, fungus, and microbiological hazards assessment
• Sick building syndrome
• Identification and control of sources
• Prevention and control of microbiological contamination
• Removal or remediation of microbiological contamination

Litigation Support and Expert Witness

EMS Environmental personnel have provided a wide variety of support to attorneys and their clients. EMS Environmental has provided litigation support which has included strategic planning, deposition support and review, witness preparation, review and interpretation of technical information, review of expert testimony, cross-examination support, presentations, and testimony at public meetings and negotiations.

• Expert witness
• Interpretation of technical information
• Strategic planning
• Third-party review

Remediation Feasibility Studies

EMS Environmental's understanding of the various remedial alternatives along with hands-on implementation experience enables us to prepare accurate feasibility studies and evaluations for a multitude of remedial scenarios. The technical expertise of EMS Environmental's engineers, scientists, and construction managers is used to identify and apply the most reliable and cost effective remediation alternative. Treatability studies may be implemented as part of a feasibility evaluation of innovative technologies.

• Most reliable solutions
• Cost effective Alternatives
• Treatability testing

Remediation Engineering

EMS Environmental utilizes information obtained during the environmental site assessment or remediation investigation to develop comprehensive remediation action plans designed to meet the objectives of our clients. Our services range from innovative technologies and strategies to traditional solutions depending upon client needs and regulatory requirements.

• Complete Remediation System Design
• Remediation System Installation

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Remediation System Installation, Operation and Maintenance

Above and beyond the development, design, and application of the remediation system, EMS Environmental uses its own experienced staff and technicians to provide start to finish management and environmental oversight of environmental remediation projects. Following installation of the remediation system, EMS Environmental's trained technicians perform regular maintenance, mechanical and electrical troubleshooting and repairs as well as required sampling procedures. The remediation process is therefore expedited by maintaining proper operation of the remediation system. EMS Environmental's experienced field staff maintains all systems installed and designed by EMS Environmental as well as existing systems. EMS Environmental can also provide and maintain temporary rental systems for its clients.

• Turnkey installation
• Mechanical and electrical troubleshooting
• Mobile treatment systems
• Operation and maintenance

Renewable Energy

As energy costs increase at an increasing rate, the option for local generation from renewable energy sources such as solar and wind becomes more and more enticing. It is important to make that renewable energy investment with a full assessment of the benefit, risks and costs. The e-New™ Renewable Energy Feasibility Analysis determines the technical and economic advantages and disadvantages of specific local renewable energy generation technology options based on your specific business' or institution's processes and facility attributes.

EMS Environmental maintains a cutting-edge view of a wide range of renewable energy generation opportunities for various types of businesses and institutions, from manufacturing to distribution to retail to campus. EMS Environmental staff also closely tracks the Federal and various States' incentives for renewable energy generation.

• Rnewable energy options based on building, process and use characteristics
• Budgetary feasibility information for recommended options
• Bid package for renewable energy acquisition
• Renewable energy system design
• Renewable energy system installation and commissioning
• Renewable energy system performance monitoring
• Third-party assessment of renewable energy analysis or of system operation

e-New.pdf

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Resource Use Analysis

Your company relies on a steady stream of resources to support your operations, including water, fuel, solvents, and process gases. The cost of these resources goes up every year and that rate has been increasing as these resources are subjected to more regulations, lessening supplies and increased worldwide demand. Resource Use Analysis provides the first step in developing a strategy for minimizing or eliminating the use of some of these resources to reduce your exposure to the cost and regulatory requirements for these resources. EMS Environmental has experience with the supply, handling and disposal regulations related to the resources you routinely use in your business.

• Resource analysis of sources and requirements for your operations
• Recommendations based on process, consumption rates and post-process requirements
• Implementation of resource-use recommendations
• Monitoring of resource-use
• Third-party assessment of resource-use analysis or of system operation

e-Source.pdf

Storage Tank Assessment and Remediation

Since its founding, EMS Environmental has assisted clients with comprehensive storage tank consulting and contracting services. EMS Environmental has provided major oil companies, small businesses, independent owners, and industrial clients with support in storage tank assessment and management, tank removals and remedial designs as well as with operation and maintenance support for remedial systems associated with environmental impacts from leaking tanks.

EMS Environmental's staff is knowledgeable with various States' cleanup reimbursement programs and has aided clients in applying, receiving and maintaining insurance reimbursements.

• Consulting, assessment and management
• Environmental assessment
• Site remediation design
• Site remediation installation, operation and maintenance
• Tank monitoring programs
• Tank removal
• UST cleanup reimbursement programs

Waste Stream Analysis

Your company is liable for whatever it delivers to a landfill. A waste stream analysis, can help you manage that risk and identify cost saving opportunities with waste reduction, re-use and recycling. EMS Environmental's experience with disposal regulations, recycling opportunities and waste analysis enables you to make informed business decisions.

• Identify waste sources and output rates for your operations
• Prepare recommendations based on the type of waste, waste volumes and where it is going
• Prepare and present report of findings

e-Stream Analysis.pdf