Mundell personnel performed advanced one- and two-dimensional analytical and numerical modeling of the groundwater at a former wood treatment plant. The calculations and results based on these analyses provided our client with the technical basis to assess whether or not the releases from the wood treatment plant were sudden and accidental results crucial in setting pollution insurance claims……Read More »
Portfolio
Mundell & Associates is a small consulting company with large-company credentials and significant experience with some of the most challenging and diverse environmental concerns.
Our project portfolio (which includes case histories, publications, and presentations) covers the world and includes time sensitive investigations as well as long term remediation and monitoring. Clients benefit from a cross disciplinary approach to problem solving and depend on our abilities to communicate complex scientific and engineering principles.
Remediation of Chlorinated Solvents via CAP-18 Injection
Mundell effectively confirmed an on-site source at the Michigan Plaza site and fully delineated chemical impacts to soil and groundwater from past site operations. Injection of CAP-18, a soybean oil bioremediation product, was chosen as the best remedial option. Within three months of the injection events, reductive dechlorination responses were evident at monitoring wells immediately down gradient of the injection locations. Over time, this same response has been observed moving further downgradient across the site……Read More »
Soil Vapor Extraction and Air Sparging Removal Action on EPA CERCLA Site at Former Residential Dry Cleaner
In 2005, the EPA issued an order to remove PCE contamination from a former dry cleaners site as it presented a potential endangerment to the public health. Mundell was contracted to develop a plan to achieve unsaturated soils and groundwater cleanup goals while controlling PCE soil gas vapors that had intruded into the foundations of residences. In 2013, after 7 years of Mundell’s remediation system and techniques, the EPA approved completion of the soil removal action, indicating that on-site PCE soil source had been remediated. Approximately 1.65 tons of PCE had been removed by the system. Mundell continues to monitor groundwater to track progress of reductive de-chlorination in the residual off-site chlorinated groundwater plume……Read More »
Site Assessment at a Former Gasoline Station
Mundell used EM-61 metal detection in conjunction with localized ground penetrating radar to characterize metal objects beneath a former gas station site. In the end, a single, 3,000 gallon UST was located and determined to be the source of significant soil and groundwater impacts across the site. The use of geophysics on this project was crucial to its successful completion……Read More »
Human-Health Risk Assessment – U.S. Can Company
U.S. Can contracted with Mundell to perform a human-health risk assessment of existing residual soil and groundwater impacts at its facility in Burns Harbor, Indiana. As part of this work, Mundell completed an exposure assessment that modeled groundwater flow, contaminant transport and indoor air vapor intrusion, and predicted potential receptors of impacted groundwater moving offsite……Read More »