Environmental Forensics
Environmental Forensics
Environmental forensics is a discipline for reconstructing contaminant discharge events in a scientifically defensible manner. Our forensic services are particularly useful for identifying unknown contaminants, estimating contaminant discharge ages, and source discrimination and often requested for litigation support and to determine insurance coverage applicability. Peak’s experts conduct forensic investigations using a variety of technical approaches, including:
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- Developing contaminant discharge age-dating and source determination methods.
- Applying specialized isotopic tools in the environmental industry to accomplish project goals.
- Establishing laboratory analytical procedures for environmental forensic cases.
- Interpreting the supporting laboratory data that is seldom reviewed – technical details that qualify data and provide a wealth of additional information to experts capable of deciphering it.
- Integrating forensic and expert testimony services.
Peak applies forensic tools, including those listed below, to characterize contaminants and provide data and information supporting the resolution of disputes associated with insurance claims, litigation, and regulatory compliance.
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- Chemical fingerprinting: Used for identifying petroleum and solvent types.
- Biomarkers: Used for identifying fuel types and discharge ages.
- Compound-Specific Isotope Analysis (CSIA): Used for age dating, contaminant source discrimination (e.g., commingled discharges of the same contaminant by different parties), groundwater flow dynamics, and plume origins.
- Fate and transport modeling, hydrogeological investigations, reconstruction of Site operational histories, source origin and discharge age estimates.
Peak’s technical staff includes experts in geochemistry, hydrogeology, isotope chemistry, and geology.
Projects
Redevelopment Project, Elizabeth, NJ
Peak Environmental, A Nova Group GBC company (Peak) was retained by a retail company to manage environmental aspects of the redevelopment of a former commercial and industrial property into a 525,000 square foot product distribution facility. The property comprises 35 acres and was...
Thermal Remediation Project, Maplewood, NJ
Peak has managed the characterization and remediation of CVOCs in soil and groundwater at a former razor blade manufacturing facility since 2013. Discharges during operations in the 1950s and 1960s caused contaminant concentrations in soil and groundwater greater than...
Rapid Response, Monmouth County, NJ
Rapid Response, Monmouth County, NJ A petroleum tanker truck was involved in an accident with another tanker truck at a major intersection in Monmouth County, New Jersey. Both tanker trucks lost product and the total released volume was approximately 3,500 gallons of...
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Peak Environmental, A Nova Group, GBC Company
732-326-1010
info@peak-environmental.com
26 Kennedy Blvd, Suite A
East Brunswick, NJ 08816
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