Responsibility Matters

Responsibility and innovation distinguish the work of BB&A Environmental. Finding timely and affordable solutions to complex environmental problems is the foremost responsibility of the professional engineers and geologists of BB&A Environmental. To this end, BB&A Environmental has successfully applied innovative approaches to our client’s best interest.

Since January of 1989, BB&A Environmental has provided innovative and responsible environmental consulting and engineering services to municipal, industrial, commercial, and private concerns throughout the Pacific Northwest. Professional services provided by BB&A Environmental include a broad spectrum of site investigation and assessment, field monitoring, and, when required, site remediation.

As a division of BB&A Environmental, the company provides both environmental and geotechnical drilling and probing services.

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Industry News

New NPDES Industrial Stormwater Permits

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has issued revisions to the National Pollution Elimination System (NPDES) Industrial Stormwater Permits 1200-Z (effective July 1, 2012—June 30, 2017), 1200-ZN (new facility not previously permitted; effective October 1, 2011—September 30, 2016), and 1200-COLS (Columbia Slough; effective October 1, 2011—September 30, 2016). For some parameters, statewide benchmarks and reference concentrations for impairment pollutants have become significantly more stringent.

Stormwater UIC System Requirements

The federal Underground Injection Control (UIC) program, enacted in 1974 under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), is administered by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and is intended to protect groundwater resources from contamination. Stormwater UIC systems are any man-made design or structure which allows discharge of stormwater below ground. Common UIC systems include, for example, dry wells, soakage trenches, and infiltration galleries.

Contaminant Vapor Intrusion Into Structures – Do You Know The Risks?

In 2010, the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) issued a standard (ASTM E-2600-10) for conducting a Vapor Encroachment Condition (VEC) on property involved in real estate transactions with respect to volatile contaminants (e.g., solvents, gasoline) that can migrate as vapors into existing or planned structures. Possible sources for volatile contaminants could include dry cleaners, leaking underground storage tanks, or old landfills to name a few.

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