Two separate Environmental Works, Inc. field services teams recently wrapped up international projects in two vastly different locales. A crew of five field services project managers, supervisors and technicians from EWI’s Springfield, Missouri, and Springdale, Arkansas, offices toughed out the dusty, dry, high desert weather in Chihuahua, Mexico, while a team of five field services …
Management of Complex Sites
Environmental remediation and compliance technologies are constantly improving. However, the industry still faces challenges – namely, complicated sites with conditions that make full remediation a difficult task. Known as “complex sites,” these areas – contaminated former laundromats, for example – can present both technical and nontechnical issues. At Environmental Works, we’re committed to helping our …
EWI Uses Advanced Geotube® Technology to Compost Waste
Environmental Works currently has eight Geotube® containers baking in the scorching summer sun at Springfield, Missouri’s Southwest Treatment Plant. The massive synthetic tubes, which could be mistaken for those inflatable water catapult “blobs,” favorites of summer camps everywhere, are actually filled with solid waste, not air. Once the Geotube® containers are done dewatering, the waste …
EWI Can Clean Your Combustible Dust Before it Becomes Dangerous
Sure, dust is annoying, but it can also be dangerous and combustible, especially when produced on an industrial scale.
The BUILD Act and the EPA’s Brownfields Program
At EWI, we deal extensively with brownfields, which are properties compromised by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) manages these properties closely through multiple programs: the general Brownfields Program and a more recent addition, the Brownfields Utilization, Investment and Local Development (BUILD) Act. The latter initiative is …
Brownfields Site Shows Off Efficiency of EWI Remediation Team
The efficiency and effectiveness of Environmental Works’ remediation team was recently on full display at a Brownfields project site in southwest Missouri.
Introducing Our Expanded Industrial Cleaning Services
When you need industrial cleaning or emergency response services, there’s no time to waste. And to ensure environmental compliance, you must have access to reliable industrial service providers. Fortunately, Environmental Works employs industrial service teams that are professionally trained, flexible, reliable, and available throughout the Midwest and beyond. We know firsthand that having a service provider …
EWI’s Entrepreneurial Spirit Soars with Geoprobe® Sonic 8150LS
To complete primarily environmental, geothermal and cathodic drilling, EWI’s Springfield office started with two Geoprobe® 6620s. As business grew, they added a 7822DT. “The 7822DT has 25 percent more power, yet it still fits into our gas station sites and goes under canopies without issues,” Yoakum said. “The oscillating mast is great for uneven surfaces and …
The EPA’s Pending Regulations on PFAS
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a group of man-made chemicals that have been used in a variety of industries around the globe. Unfortunately, scientists have found that PFAS pose a variety of risks to human health. For that reason, on February 14, 2019, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its PFAS Action Plan, which …
New Sonic Drilling Rig Goes to Work
Cherokee Pass, MO – It was a cool, breezy morning in mid-March. Environmental Works Inc.’s brand new GeoProbe sonic drilling rig was in place and the drill positioned to break ground on a well site that had been giving our drilling team issues for years. They had been to the site at least once a …