Engineering

---

Successful remediation projects are the result of careful planning and execution. Superior combines background information collection and interpretation with the application of appropriate engineering principles. Theoretical knowledge as well as hands-on experience ensures that our staff is familiar with each technology’s capabilities and potential interactions. In addition, understanding and incorporating economic and regulatory factors plays a role. Superior’s engineering staff is involved through every step of a project.

Superior provides engineering and remedial design with a full range of capabilities, including:

• Engineering design
  • Soil and groundwater remediation systems
  • Liquid and/or vapor treatment systems
  • System controls including programmable logic controllers and telemetry
  • Aboveground or underground piping systems (extraction, injection, liquids, and vapors)
  • Mobile and fixed-base systems
  • Incorporation of various power sources (AC, DC, hard-wired, battery, solar)
  • Sub-slab depressurization systems
  • As-built drawings
• Groundwater modeling
• Contaminant fate and transport modeling
• Plans and specifications
• Bid package preparation
• Bid process management and contactor selection

To complement their expertise in remediation system design, our employees have experience in oil and gas exploration, mineral exploration, water and sanitation systems, chemical engineering, wastewater treatment, and hazardous material management.

Superior’s operation and maintenance (O&M) staff works closely with our engineering design and construction management teams.  The electrical and mechanical technicians in the O&M group are well versed in troubleshooting any problem encountered with the O&M of liquid and vapor treatment systems.  The O&M staff is also responsible for making sure all compliance regulations and permitting requirements are met.  O&M personnel are licensed as Certified Wastewater Treatment Operators in various categories, including carbon adsorption, air stripping, and biological treatment programs.

Superior’s operation and maintenance services include:

• Routine system inspections and maintenance
• Oversight and documentation of filter media changes or other maintenance requiring subcontractors or manufacturers’ representatives
• Sample collection, proper handling, and documentation
• Alarm response with non-routine maintenance and troubleshooting

Superior has the technical skills and experience to help meet current and future wastewater challenges.  Our engineers and chemists have the expertise to evaluate wastewater handling and treatment needs and to arrive at a cost-effective plan to address these needs.

Superior’s wastewater management services include:

• Planning and design of collection and treatment facilities
• Industrial pretreatment design
• Surface water management
• Municipal sewer and air permit applications
• Residuals management coordination

Superior’s certified treatment plant operators can operate, maintain, and monitor wastewater treatment facilities.

Superior has design and operational experience with many types of remediation systems in a variety of applications.  We are able to analyze and interpret physical and chemical environmental conditions as well as the capabilities of many types of equipment (such as blowers, pumps, air strippers, oil/water separators, and granular activated carbon [GAC] systems) to evaluate a system’s efficiency.  If indicated, Superior will provide recommendations and modifications to the system, prepare plans and specifications for modifications, and follow through by completing the modifications using in-house resources or by overseeing subcontractors on the client’s behalf.

Superior’s remedial system optimization services include:

• Review and analysis of past and current site conditions
• Review and analysis of past and current system operating parameters
• Evaluate overall component conditions and efficiencies
• Recommend system or operation changes to increase efficiency and/or cost effectiveness

Superior provides permitting services for a variety of media types including air, groundwater, storm water, and surface water through environmental regulations promulgated at the federal, state, and local government levels. Example permit types include, the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits for industrial or commercial process water or mixed process & storm water discharged to “waters of the State”, storm water only discharges at industrial and commercial facilities, discharges into aquifer media for in-situ remediation sites, and air permit-to-install permits required for atmospheric discharges at a variety of environmental cleanup sites.

Superior has experience obtaining, and maintaining these environmental permits in many States within the EPA Region 5 area, including, but not limited to, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio. Many of these regulations are federally promulgated, but are implemented at the state level through primacy. Superior, has on-staff certified operators for NPDES required roles ranging from storm water inspection and management to industrial waste water operations, and experienced staff for air permit roles including new permit applications and renewals, compliance reviews, discharge stack monitoring and sampling, and annual emissions reporting to state & federal agencies.