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ABB, Inc.
Closure and Redevelopment
of Inactive Manufacturing Facility (1993 – 2003)
To assist ABB, Inc. in redeveloping a former
instrument manufacturing facility in Rochester,
New York, MACTEC provided a full range of environmental
services during all project phases including initial
site assessment and investigation, remedy evaluations
and selections, interim remedial actions, pilot
testing, regulatory negotiations, remedial planning
and design, and remediation. The facility had a 90-year history of manufacturing
operations involving mercury, solvents, electroplating
chemicals, and other materials.
The project
won the Consulting Engineers of Tennessee Runner-up
Award in 1999 and is one of the largest and most
visible projects conducted under New York’s
Voluntary Cleanup Program.
MACTEC’s services included feasibility
studies, risk assessment, asbestos abatement,
storm sewer rehabilitation, underground storage
tank removal, facility demolition, and comprehensive
groundwater, soil, and waste characterization.
We also provided full-scale operation
and maintenance for a dual-phase vacuum
extraction remediation system for groundwater
that had been contaminated with volatile organic
compounds.
Project highlights included...
- A $4 million facility
demolition effort was completed on schedule
in 9 months and within 90% of the original budget
estimate.
- A $5 million remedial
effort for mercury-contaminated soil and trichloroethylene-contaminated
soil and groundwater was completed on schedule
in 9 months and within 90% of the budget estimate.
- MACTEC helped the client
save millions of dollars in waste handling and
disposal costs by working with environmental
attorneys to establish that the majority of
mercury-bearing demolition and excavation wastes
would be treated not as a listed hazardous waste,
but according to whether it exhibited hazardous
characteristics. Despite initial opposition
from the regulatory agency, the project team’s
technical arguments, based on RCRA interpretation
and case law precedent, were eventually accepted.
Nuclear Fuel Facility Decommissioning and Demolition (2001–05)
MACTEC performed D&D of the former nuclear fuel fabrication facilities in Windsor, Connecticut to obtain unrestricted release from the NRC and reduce ABB’s long-term liability. Work on the 600-acre site included characterization, radiological decontamination, asbestos and lead abatement, above- and below-grade demolition, site restoration, and waste management (radiological, hazardous, and mixed) including packaging, segregation, sizing, and shipping.
MACTEC’s activities included...
- D&D of 10 nuclear fuel fabrication facilities totaling approximately 200,000 square feet and encompassing 30 acres
- Characterization of land using MARSSIM-based survey
- Characterization of structures, soils, and groundwater
- Waste minimization including decontamination
- Hazardous materials removal
- Structural dismantlement and demolition
- Slab and underground utility removal
- Utility modifications and isolations
- Soil remediation
- Groundwater monitoring well installation, and sampling and analysis for chemical and radiological constituents
- Groundwater modeling, and fate and transport evaluation
- NRC license support (amendments, decommissioning plan, etc.)
- Final status survey for NRC approval
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