{"id":7707,"date":"2017-11-01T22:41:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T22:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eecenvironmental.com\/?post_type=project&#038;p=3266"},"modified":"2021-08-07T08:06:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T08:06:02","slug":"large-scale-soil-groundwater-river-water-soil-vapor-investigation","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/eecenvironmental.com\/project\/large-scale-soil-groundwater-river-water-soil-vapor-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Regional Petroleum Plume Beneath A New York City Borough &#8211; Evaluation of Soil, Groundwater, River Water, And Soil Vapor Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Project Highlights:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Performed an extensive assessment related to a 30 million gallon petroleum hydrocarbon plume beneath a New York City Borough of Greenpoint<\/li>\n<li>Installed and sampled\u00a0vapor monitoring wells, installing sub-slab vapor monitoring point in residential\u00a0homes and the collection of sub-slab vapor samples and indoor and outdoor ambient air samples<\/li>\n<li>Performed a river water investigation to evaluate if petroleum hydrocarbons beneath the site were impacted adjacent Newtown Creek<\/li>\n<li>Installed and sampled groundwater monitoring wells<\/li>\n<li>Researched source of chlorinated compounds discovered in groundwater<\/li>\n<li>Litigation support<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>EEC Environmental (EEC)\u00a0was retained by a major international litigation law firm to investigate soil, groundwater, river water, and soil vapor contamination to evaluate the impact of the large petroleum-free product plume on the residents and businesses in the neighborhood. The Greenpoint community is underlain by a plume of petroleum hydrocarbons released from whaling operations and petroleum refineries between the late 1800\u2019s to late 1990\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>It is estimated that between 17 and 30 million gallons of free phase petroleum product are pooled beneath this residential community.\u00a0 EEC is investigating property devaluation and human health effects caused by this petroleum plume and dissolved phase chlorinated hydrocarbons.\u00a0 Activities include the evaluation of the impact from the impacted soil, groundwater, and most importantly soil vapor intruding into residential homes and business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project Highlights: Performed an extensive assessment related to a 30 million gallon petroleum hydrocarbon plume beneath a New York City Borough of Greenpoint Installed and sampled\u00a0vapor monitoring wells, installing sub-slab vapor monitoring point in residential\u00a0homes and the collection of sub-slab vapor samples and indoor and outdoor ambient air samples Performed a river water investigation to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Evaluation of Soil, groundwater, River Water, &amp; Soil Vapor Investigation","_seopress_titles_desc":"EEC was retained by a client to investigate soil, groundwater, river water, and soil vapor contamination to evaluate the impact of the large product plume.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","protect_children":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"project_category":[305,320],"project_tag":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eecenvironmental.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/7707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eecenvironmental.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eecenvironmental.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eecenvironmental.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eecenvironmental.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eecenvironmental.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/7707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eecenvironmental.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eecenvironmental.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eecenvironmental.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_category?post=7707"},{"taxonomy":"project_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eecenvironmental.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_tag?post=7707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}