SWAPE conducts nationwide assessments of environmental impacts associated with former commercial, industrial, and agricultural sites. SWAPE primarily conducts these assessments for projects involving human health risk, toxic torts, and property transactions involving litigation. Where necessary we can mobilize field personnel to perform field investigations of soil, soil gas, and groundwater contamination.

The assessment of an environmentally impaired site and contamination typically involves the identification of former land uses and chemical uses, source identification, identification of responsible parties, evaluation of the fate and transport of contaminants in soil and groundwater, delineation of extent of contamination, evaluation of human health and ecological risks, evaluation of property damage, and evaluation of natural resource damage. These tasks may involve a variety of phases of investigation, often under oversight by a regulatory agency.

SWAPE provides technical program management for a full range of site characterization services. We utilize crews from any of several affiliated consulting firms to perform various field activities to accomplish the acquisition of subsurface data, install monitoring wells, and perform other on-site activities requiring general field labor.

As program managers we generally subcontract the following field activities:

• Phase I and II due diligence assessments
• Site investigations
• Pilot/Treatability studies
• Remedial design and engineering
• Construction management
• Remediation O&M