Fuel Spill: NYC School Clean Up
MES Emergency Spill Response team remediates groundwater and soil in elementary school courtyard.
Services Provided:
- Spill Response / Clean Up
- Tank Testing
- Soil Sampling / Air Sampling
- Tank Abandonment
Metro Environmental Services (MES) was recently contacted in regards to a suspected spill. Evidence of a leak was discovered in a boiler room located inside the school. Adjacent to the boiler room is the school’s courtyard which has a 5,000-gallon UST that was installed in 1930.
Services Provided:
- Spill Response / Clean Up
- Tank Testing
- Soil Sampling / Air Sampling
- Tank Abandonment
Metro Environmental Services (MES) was recently contacted in regards to a suspected spill. Evidence of a leak was discovered in a boiler room located inside the school. Adjacent to the boiler room is the school’s courtyard which has a 5,000-gallon UST that was installed in 1930.
Challenges
MES responded quickly, reporting to the job site to clean up the spill and prevent further contamination and/or vapors from reaching the school. We then performed a tank test which, as expected, failed. The tank test failure confirmed the suspicion that the tank was the source of the spill.
Various MES personnel from both the construction and service departments were brought in to facilitate the project.
Process
After coordinating with the NYSDEC, our construction team quickly dispatched crews to pump out and abandon the existing UST and install three 275-gallon temporary ASTs in its place.
Subsequently, the service department came in to take soil samples and air samples. The air and three soil samples came up clean. It is presumed that any additional contamination was quickly washed away due to the area’s high-water table.
MES technicians continued to perform site visits 2x per week to monitor the air in the classrooms and other school facilities, ensuring the school was safe for the children and staff.
Challenges
MES responded quickly, reporting to the job site to clean up the spill and prevent further contamination and/or vapors from reaching the school. We then performed a tank test which, as expected, failed. The tank test failure confirmed the suspicion that the tank was the source of the spill.
Various MES personnel from both the construction and service departments were brought in to facilitate the project.
Process
After coordinating with the NYSDEC, our construction team quickly dispatched crews to pump out and abandon the existing UST and install three 275-gallon temporary ASTs in its place.
Subsequently, the service department came in to take soil samples and air samples. The air and three soil samples came up clean. It is presumed that any additional contamination was quickly washed away due to the area’s high-water table.
MES technicians continued to perform site visits 2x per week to monitor the air in the classrooms and other school facilities, ensuring the school was safe for the children and staff.
Solution
Once the required permits are received, MES teams will be dispatched to install a new 2,000-gallon AST in the boiler room, closing out a successful project that involved a highly collaborative team effort.
MES has decades of experience in the environmental remediation field. We provide testing, maintenance, and remediation in the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut area and are backed by an industry-leading team of professionals.
Solution
Once the required permits are received, MES teams will be dispatched to install a new 2,000-gallon AST in the boiler room, closing out a successful project that involved a highly collaborative team effort.
MES has decades of experience in the environmental remediation field. We provide testing, maintenance, and remediation in the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut area and are backed by an industry-leading team of professionals.
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