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ENVIRONMENTAL
CONSULTING & CONTRACTING
Industry: Metal Finishers
“Metals Industries”, when taken as a whole, are one of the largest user groups of toxic chemicals in the world. California has been one of the largest centers of metals based industries in the world supplying the defense, automobile and special products industries. Some of the materials used in metal finishing are solvents and surfactants for cleaning, acids and bases for etching, and solutions of metal salts for plating the finish onto the substrate.
The Reynolds Group (TRG) has been providing assistance to this industry for twenty years, beginning in the 1980’s, when small metal plating operations were scrutinized for contributions to U.S. EPA Superfund programs until today, when business and property transactions involving metal finishers routinely require environmental due diligence.
TRG uses the results from metals investigations to provide relevant information regarding potential contamination for use in property transfers, liability valuation, litigation support, remedial action planning, regulatory negotiation, source identification, and waste minimization. Our two decades of assessment and remediation experience, with wide ranges of organic and inorganic chemicals, provide our clients with the breadth of knowledge to tackle any assignment. TRG also provides a full range of risk analysis, expert consulting, and remediation services.
The Reynolds Group (TRG) has been providing assistance to this industry for twenty years, beginning in the 1980’s, when small metal plating operations were scrutinized for contributions to U.S. EPA Superfund programs until today, when business and property transactions involving metal finishers routinely require environmental due diligence.
TRG uses the results from metals investigations to provide relevant information regarding potential contamination for use in property transfers, liability valuation, litigation support, remedial action planning, regulatory negotiation, source identification, and waste minimization. Our two decades of assessment and remediation experience, with wide ranges of organic and inorganic chemicals, provide our clients with the breadth of knowledge to tackle any assignment. TRG also provides a full range of risk analysis, expert consulting, and remediation services.
HEXAVALENT CHROMIUM (TRG# 6687)
| Client: | CHROMAL PLATING & GRINDING | ||
| Proj Mgr: | Gwen Tellegen |
Completed: | On-Going |
| Industry: | Metal Finishers Manufacturers Business Owners |
Service: | Hexavalent Chromium Clean-up Brownfields/redevelopment Phase 2 Subsurface Investigations Soil Remediation Regulatory Response & Negotiation |
| The Los Angeles Regional Water Board (LARWQCB) began searching in the early 2000’s for sources of chromium that had impacted key beneficial drinking water supplies in the Los Angeles area. One of TRG’s clients, a plating company, was asked to look into its past practices and assess the subsurface because another Fortune 500 company downgradient had detected highly elevated concentrations of chromium and believed it to originate from TRG’s client. Working with the law firm of Franklin, Bevins, Walsworth & McCall, TRG was able to advance work enough to demonstrate that the problem at the Fortune 500 company was more likely its own problem than TRG’s clients. By creating a compilation, surveyed regional issues report, TRG was able to graphically demonstrate that its client’s chromium issue was "de minimus". In this case, TRG worked through its clients insurer, Zurich Insurance North America. | |||