Location: Kelowna, BC

QMLP was retained to complete a remediation program at a rail siding historic fertilizer production facility.

The scope of work included the following:

• Installation of an excavation dewatering system to lower the groundwater table prior to and during excavation works;
• Treatments of hydrocarbon and metal contaminated groundwater prior to discharge to City of Kelowna sanitary sewer system;
• Excavation of approximately 10,000T of soil contaminated with a mixture of hydrocarbons and heavy metals;
• Completion of slot cutting excavation techniques to maintain a vertical excavation slope adjacent to a bank of operating buried utilities (fibre optic telephone lines, primary power, cable TV and tow natural gas lines;
• Treatment and disposal of hydrocarbon and metal contaminated soil at Envirogreen Technologies Ltd.’s thermal desorption facility in Princeton, BC;
• On-site stabilization, and transport and disposal of metal contaminated soil at a permitted landfill in Alberta; and
• Placement and compaction of 10,000T of imported backfill.

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