From the initial visit to your property to the final touches on restoration, we guide you through the entire process. We have the resources and the know how to make the process as simple and efficient as possible!

Soil Remediation
If a discharge of fuel, heating oil or any other hazardous material contaminates the soil to a degree that it exceeds a Soil Clean Up Criteria (SCC), the soil must be remediated or "cleaned up" to bring the site back into compliance with the applicable environmental standard.

The typical approach to remediating soil contamination is to remove the contaminated soil from the site and properly dispose of that material. In many cases, this approach is the most time and cost effective means of meeting regulatory requirements. Norcon Environmental has access to a network of excavating and transportation equipment to effectively perform a full range of projects from the smallest homeowner oil tank leak to large scale commercial and industrial remediation projects.

Groundwater Remediation
When groundwater is found to be contaminated above the applicable NJDEP Groundwater Quality Criteria, the groundwater must be remediated to bring the subject site back into compliance.

In cases where there is both soil and groundwater contamination, as in many residential oil tank cases, remediation of both media are usually performed at the same time. In those cases, we de-water the excavation via the use of one of our vacuum trucks, the installation of pumps or with a multi-point dewatering system. When a vaccum truck is utilized the wastewater is transported to a licensed recycling facility for disposal. In cases where the groundwater is contaminated , but the soil does not have to be remediated, we can remediate the ground water by several methods. In an effort to remediate a small plume of groundwater contamination, depending on the geology, one of the simplest methods is to install a monitoring well in the center of the plume and remove the contaminated groundwater and any floating product via Enhanced Fluid Recovery (EFR). This is performed with one of our vacuum trucks and can be quite effective in many cases. In other instances, a more intense remediation effort may require “In – Situ” remediation which may involve filtration, aeration, or bio remediation.

In-Situ Remediation
In-Situ remediation methods are commonly referred to as "Bio-Remediation", but bio-remediation is only one type of in-situ method. This common phrase comes from the earliest methods which introduced microbes that consumed certain pollutants. Today's methods are much more advanced and rely on several different means to get the job done, including the injection of compounds which release oxygen, promoting the breakdown of contaminants by micro-organisms which naturally exist in soil.

These approaches vary project to project and are very site specific. The geology and existing environmental conditions play a very important role in determining the best in-situ approach to take. These methods are meant to change the environmental setting to enhance the natural bio-degradation of the soil or groundwater or to cause a reaction that actually consumes the contaminant leaving behind harmless by-products. This is accomplished by introducing certain ingredients to the contaminated media, be it soil or groundwater to induce the necessary "reaction".

In regards to remediating home heating oil, for example, there are means of enhancing the bio-degredation potential of the soil or groundwater to help nature degrade the oil or by actually creating a chemical reaction that will consume the petroleum.

This technology is constantly evolving to remediate a greater number of contaminants in greater concentrations in differing environmental and geolocial settings. We perform and have access to all the latest proven technologies.