ETG PROJECTS

Site Renovation: College Point, Queens, N.Y.
Retained to manage a NYSDEC Voluntary Cleanup program for a site in the College Point under a NYSDEC Voluntary Agreement.This work involved the preparation of a Site Investigation Report (including soil and groundwaqter), a Remediation Work Plan, cleanup of the site, preparation of a Final Engineering Report, and a Site Management Plan.

Incorporated Village of Bayville, N.Y.
The firm has been the environmental consultant to this North Shore Long Island Village for the last nine years. ETG has been involved in a wide range of engineering, waterfront planning and environmental issues with Bayville during this time. ETG prepared a Floodplain Management Plan, a Local Waterfront Revitalization Plan, an Emergency Management Plan, a Non-Point Pollution Control Study (on the adjacent Mill Neck Creek), and designed and implemented a Recreational Trails project (for a forever-wild area). ETG prepared grant applications to various New York State agencies, which were successful in obtaining funding for the above work. In addition, ETG is the Consultant to the Village concerning the Community Rating System (CRS), which resulted in reduction of insurance rates to Village residents.
 

Environmental Compliance: University of Puerto Rico/ PREPA (Puerto Rico Power Authority)
Retained as a team member with the University of Puerto Rico as the Environmental Review Contractor to monitor compliance and progress of a USEPA/PREPA Consent Decree for 4 major  electric generating plants. The Decree required compliance with all air pollution, wastewater, and hazardous waste regulations. This was a five-year program, funded by a one million dollar PREPA program.

 

Wastewater System: Branch Brook School District, Smithtown, NY.

Retained to design and supervise the construction of a new wastewater system to replace a failed system.

Storm Water Problems
Retained as consultant on problems that caused damage due to flooding by storm water resulting from heavy rainfalls, as well as sewage backups, for locations in Lake Success, Atlantic Beach, Old Brookville, Great Neck, Hartsdale, and Glen Cove, NY,

 

Multi-Hazardous Mitigation Plans

Prepared Floodplain Management and Hazard Mitigation Plans for the Villages of Manorhaven, Patchogue, Bayville, and Pelham, NY. These plans include dealing with problems of flooding, power failures, fires, hurricanes, winter storms, and other natural and man-made hazards.

 

Groundwater Consulting: Rockaway Boulevard, Queens, NY.
Retained to review compliance plans and conduct soil and groundwater investigations for a Rockaway Boulevard site in Queens, NY (a former gas station), with the aim of developing a remedial compliance program that can be approved by the NYSDEC.

 

Fresh Kills and Richmond Landfills: Staten Island, N.Y.
Expert services for the NYC Law Department concerning the Fresh Kills and Richmond Landfills. ETG members have extensive experience with these landfills and a broad understanding of the issues concerning the impact of these facilities on the environment, on closure and capping, and the fulfillment of environmental compliance and permitting requirements.

Landfill Closure: New York City Department of Sanitation
Expert services in connection with the closure of the Fresh Kills landfill facility in Staten Island, NY. 

Groundwater Consulting: PPL Global L.L.C.
The firm served as the consultant on groundwater issues for the Kings Park Energy site in Smithtown N.Y., and has conducted studies to determine the impact of backup fuel oil storage on deep groundwater aquifers for this part of Long Island.

Environmental Compliance and Renovation: Shirley, NY.
Environmental compliance and renovation of a Long Island Home Depot site. This work included the management of environmental cleanup activities in preparation for the final development of the site, and construction of store facilities.

Waste Minimization: Pollution Prevention Studies: Slovakia.
Retained under a USAID sponsored grant to review waste minimization/ pollution prevention options for three industrial facilities in Slovakia.

Solid Waste Management Project: Biskupija, Croatia.
Retained to conduct a solid waste management project for a municipality in the Knin region of Croatia along the Bosnian border. This USAID sponsored and funded project was done in collaboration with a local engineering and planning firm from Zagreb, and the municipal government in Biskupija.

Energy and Water Savings: Food Processing Waste Management Studies: Egypt
Members of the firm were involved in a USAID sponsored project to conserve water and energy in vegetable dehydration plants in Cairo and Alexandria, as well as a follow-up study to determine how Solar Energy could be used to save energy in those facilities.

 

Training Program: Venezuela, South America
Carried out a training program on Advanced Wastewater Treatment and Air Pollution Control for oil company engineers in Maracaibo, Venezuela.

PCB cleanup: Great Neck N.Y.
Retained to respond to a PCB transformer explosion in this residential community.

Metuchen, NJ Trash Train
The firm was retained to evaluate the environmental impact of a New Jersey railroad linking a Linden NJ transfer station with disposal sites outside of the state.

 

Westinghouse Corporation
Assisted in the preparation of a proposal by Westinghouse Corporation to take over the entire management of the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, NY. This work included the environmental cleanup contracting, which was a major aspect of the management contract

Publications
McGraw Hill Handbooks Series. Co-editors of a comprehensive, 2001, Handbook of Complex Environmental Remediation Problems. This is a 12 chapter, 900 plus page handbook on environmental remediation problem solving.;

Preparation of a USEPA Handbook for elected officials: “ The Plain Language Guide to Sanitary Sewer Overflows: A Brief Introduction to the Basics of SSOs and What You Can Do to Eliminate Them.”