The Gowanus Canal Superfund Site is undergoing extensive remediation that is expected to take 10 years. Remediation includes dredging, in situ stabilization (ISS), capping, bulkhead replacement, and more.
Geosyntec was retained by an oil corporation to permit the replacement of the electrical system powering a corporate retreat located on an island retreat in Lake Ontario, New York. The replacement of the electrical system included submerged electric transmission cable originating from the mainland to the island and submerged cables within the island.
The Cortese Landfill NPL Site is an unlined landfill that received municipal and industrial wastes. Previous consultants completed the RI/FS, as well as design and construction of drum removal actions and landfill closure systems called for in a 1994 Record of Decision (ROD).
Geosyntec is a member of the multidisciplinary Ralph Wilson Park (RWP) design team led by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Incorporated. The park is a key part of the revitalization of the City of Buffalo.
The Gowanus Canal Superfund Site is a large sediment mega-site in Brooklyn, approximately two miles long with construction dating to the 1860s.
Newtown Creek in Brooklyn and Queens, New York, a large sediment megasite, is almost four miles long and was one of the busiest hubs of industrial activity in the area in the mid-1800s.
As part of the mixed used redevelopment of a 40,000-square-foot former cutlery manufacturing building in upstate New York, the property's developer was required to mitigate the potential for vapor intrusion.
Plattsburgh Air Force Base is a former U.S. Air Force base in upstate New York on the shore of Lake Champlain.
The closed Fresh Kills Landfill site on Staten Island is the largest remaining open space within New York City's five boroughs. The 2,200-acre site, active for more than 50 years, includes four waste disposal mounds ranging in height from 90 to 200 feet and is the final resting place of World Trade Center debris. The City has elected to retain ownership of the site and develop it as a world-class urban recreation destination, creating the Fresh Kills Lifescape Parkland.
Prior waste disposal practices and stormwater runoff into Onondaga Lake, a 4.6 square-mile lake just northwest of Syracuse in central New York State, impacted water quality and sediments throughout the water body. As a result, stakeholders including U.S. EPA, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, and industries with past operations in the vicinity of the lake began the process of negotiating a Consent Decree that would result in the restoration of lake water quality and ensuring that impacted sediments posed no undue threat to future human health or the ecology of the lake.
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