Project Details

Location: Acheson, AB

Time Frame: September 2020 – January 2021

Project Value: $2,700,000

Contract Type: Lump Sum

Services Rendered: Environmental & Demolition

Project Summary

This project involved the remedial excavation and disposal of contaminated soil from a former tank farm/oil loading facility in a community area.

Project Scope

• Site area preparation including stripping gravel, topsoil and brush clearing

• Identification and removal of underground utilities (two pipeline segments and seventeen groundwater monitoring wells)

  • Including asbestos abatement of pipeline coating.

• Construction of three temporary soil storage cells with impermeable liners

• Remedial excavation of 51,000 metric tons of soil that have been contaminated

  • Transported 41,000 tons to a landfill approved for hazardous waste, and 10,000 tons of marginally impacted soils stockpiled and then put into treatment cells

• Created a large area where water can soak into the ground (infiltration gallery) that's 2800 square meters

• Completed project by hauling and backfill, site grading, and fencing

• Over 4000 loads of material were transported from the site to the Class 2 (hazardous waste) landfill through the community area without incident or complaint