Remediation – Preventing Plume Migration

Earth Systems designed and implemented one of the most successful wood preserving site cleanup actions in Florida at a former wood treatment facility in Lake City, Florida. At project inception, up to 8 feet of free product (pentachlorophenal dissolved into diesel fuel) was present above the water table. This free product was seeping into a creek that discharges to Alligator Lake, which supplies drinking water in the Lake City area.

Earth Systems designed a free product recovery program as an interim remedial measure and immediately controlled discharge to the creek. The firm engineered a soil bioremediation system for the site and trained onsite personnel to implement the system at great savings to the responsible party. Free product was reduced to a sheen. To date, over 200,000 cubic yards of soil have been remediated to Florida’s Soil Cleanup Target Levels.