Our client owns a power plant in Ohio that generates electricity from two 1,300-MW coal-fired units. In anticipation of upcoming federal coal combustion residuals (CCRs) regulations, they decided to initiate closure design for a 300-acre fly ash pond, recognizing the many years it would take to design, permit, and close the pond.
The owner of a power plant in Ohio that generates electricity from two 1,300-MW coal-fired units required an additional 47 million cubic yards of disposal capacity for coal combustion residuals (CCR).
The project site is a 410-acre fly ash disposal basin (permitted as a Type III landfill in the long term) for a coal-fired electricity generating facility in Michigan. The fly ash disposal basin is enclosed by a 3.5-mile-long, up to 44-foot-high, compacted clay embankment.
The 80-year old R. Paul Smith coal-fired electricity generating plant in Maryland produces approximately 90 megawatts of power, however its ash disposal landfill is located on the opposite shore of the Potomac River in West Virginia.
Coal combustion residuals (CCR), are typically managed in impoundments or in landfills. With several high profile failures of impoundments around the country and our client's own experience with small-scale releases from their landfills, Geosyntec was tasked to develop Emergency Response Plans (ERPs) for 12 landfills at 11 sites on the East Coast.
Over the past 20 years, Geosyntec has provided health and safety and industrial hygiene services for 14 General Dynamics Ordnance & Tactical Systems facilities across the United States and Canada.
Industrial hygiene (IH) assessments are conducted to accurately evaluate worker exposures to chemical, physical and biological agents in the workplace and to provide recommendations for their reduction or elimination.
This grocery chain operates six facilities that use ammonia refrigeration processes to provide cooling and freezing to large perishable storage and food manufacturing areas. These processes contain more than 10,000 pounds (lbs) of anhydrous ammonia.
The client, who operates three bulk liquid terminals in the Western United States, has a very structured Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) management system and performs internal audits in a three-year cycle following the Chemical Distribution Industry – Terminal (CDI-T) and Responsible Care management system protocol.
A citrus processor operates two ammonia refrigeration systems to provide cooling to perishable storage and manufacturing areas. These processes contain more than 10,000 pounds (lbs) of anhydrous ammonia which is an effective refrigerant.
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