LITIGATION SUPPORT
Expert Opinions and Technical Support
With an average of over 18 years environmental engineering experience, our principal engineers have extensive technical knowledge, practical and management expertise in:
| Site investigations and environmental data
collection and interpretation. | |
| Remediation of contaminated soil, sediment,
groundwater, surface water, air. | |
| Decontamination and demolition of structures. | |
| Environmental facility permitting, design,
construction and operation. | |
| Aqueous waste treatment. | |
| Solid and hazardous waste management. | |
| Construction quality control/assurance. | |
| Construction and hazardous waste operations safety. |

At this Buffalo neighborhood where residents were concerned over potential health impacts from historical industrial activities on their properties, Benchmark and TurnKey principals provided expert opinions and consultation to the attorneys representing the former industrial property owners regarding: soil and ambient air sampling and analytical methodology; environmental data adequacy and interpretation; human health risks; remediation and residential relocation costs.
Professional services offered to support litigation attorneys include:
| Expert technical evaluations, opinions, and
testimony. | |
| Collection and interpretation of environmental
data. | |
| Environmental fate and transport of contaminants. | |
| Remediation alternatives and adequacy (i.e., How
clean is clean?). | |
| Human health and ecological risk assessment. | |
| Environmental impact analysis and mitigation. | |
| Consent/administrative orders and enforcement
defense. | |
| Construction claims resolution. | |
| Public presentations, project visualization and community outreach. |