On-Site Soil Treatments
Since beginning operations in 1982, GoodEarth Environmental, Inc. has successfully remediated soils from more than 2,500 locations throughout the Southeast. We have handled projects ranging in size from 2,000 to 20,000 tons of material, and can process up to 1,000 tons per day. We use innovative yet proven technologies to remediate a variety of soil contaminants ranging from petroleum hydrocarbons to heavy metals. We do this through:
Bioremediation
The backbone of the GoodEarth Environmental, Inc. success story, this time-tested and widely accepted natural alternative involves the direct application and mechanical mixing of very specific live microbial (non-pathogenic) and nutrient solutions. Using our exclusive process, GoodEarth can safely and cost-effectively end your liability from petroleum-impacted soils. Our innovative technology allows us to treat your contaminated dirt onsite, eliminating the costs associated with offsite disposal, not to mention purchasing and hauling of backfill. Cheaper and more environmentally beneficial than incineration or landfilling, our end product exceeds "clean fill" regulation standards and is suitable for reuse as fill or top soil. Once we've given your soil a clean bill of health, you're left with an asset where once you had a liability. And with times for our highly effective treatment calculated in weeks or even days rather than the usual months, we can offer a much more rapid turnaround than other processes could hope to achieve.
Chemical Oxidation
Chemical oxidation incorporates several of the most innovative soil treatment technologies available today. Our system employs advanced mechanical mixing techniques in the application of a targeted selection of oxidizing agents and suitable soil amendments. This proven remediation process allows GoodEarth Environmental, Inc. to effectively eliminate contaminant concentrations in a wide range of soils, enabling you to achieve target clean-up levels rapidly and economically.
Natural Attenuation
Natural attenuation simply involves allowing exposure to the elements to degrade soil contaminants naturally. Our role is merely to accelerate that process through turning and monitoring. This process can be used for similar types of contaminants to the ones that could otherwise require bioremediation or oxidation; it just depends on the starting levels and the specific chemical interactions of contaminants with the soil. When appropriate, this can be a lower-cost treatment option.
Stabilization
Stabilization involves similar mechanical mixing techniques to our other methods, but relies on the use of dirt, cement, and other amendments to render such heavy metal contaminants as lead and cadmium unleachable. As advanced as our microbial cultures are, there are some elemental contaminants that simply can't be broken down by any chemical process, natural or otherwise.
Depending on the type and levels of contamination present, as well as the intended future use of the site, it may often be impossible or impractical to bioremediate or oxidize these pollutants out of a soil. It can take years and expensive retrofits to run a full-scale phytoremediation operation, and any leaching that occurs during that time would still be your liability. Our stabilization techniques are tailor-made for brownfields and CERCLA sites, or any other situation where quickly rendering hazardous contaminants chemically nonreactive is of primary importance. When all else fails, our process can keep heavy metals out of the water table, out of the food chain - and out of your hair.
Soil Disposal
Whether you're planning to treat it onsite, incinerate it or landfill it, we can get your soil out of the ground for you. Our 47,000-lb. CAT 320 CL Excavator, along with its cousin the CAT 420 D Rubber Tire Backhoe / Loader, make a formidable tag-team from which no soil is safe. In addition, we have the expertise to use any other equipment a larger job might typically call for, and the extensive industry contacts to ensure that those tools can be onsite as soon as we can. Our Ford LT-9000 dump truck can hold up to 20 tons of soil, meaning we can perform source removal on contaminated sites with ease. We also subcontract with numerous trucking companies to provide additional material handling as needed. Should you choose to take your dirt offsite, we'll be there to haul it and dispose of it, and haul in high-quality backfill to replace it. We maintain an extensive network of transportation resources throughout the Southeast, so your material will never be stranded.