FDEP Restoration Program

We serve as a contractor for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection Florida's Petroleum Restoration Program. This Program encompasses nearly 12,000 open discharges of petroleum or petroleum products from stationary petroleum storage systems at approximately 10,000 confirmed contaminated sites that are eligible or otherwise approved for cleanup funding assistance form the Inland Protection Trust Fund (IPTF). The annual appropriation for direct cleanup related expenditures is currently $125 million. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has procured HCR to perform petroleum contamination services to the DEP for the Program. These services cover a broad range of activities in the general categories of site assessment, remedial options and design, remedial action implementation, site closure and reporting. We are responsible for all phases of assessment and cleanup, as well as liability of damage suffered by the State for non-performance. We are, periodically, given task assignments for sites at which some assessment or remedial activities have already occured. 

Site Assessment

We perform all aspects of the site assessment in accordance with applicable rules and guidance of the DEP and other government entities, including general coordination and communication during the project, researching site history and background, identifying potential receptors and health risks, determining the chemicals of concern present, their concentrations and the vertical and horizontal extent of the contaminant plume in all affected media, determining the lithologic and hydrogeologic parameters that affect the migration of contaminants, identifying off-site contamination and affected parties, evaluating site closure options and preperation of associated reports.

Remedial Options and Design

We perform all aspects of evaluation and design for remedial action options in accordance with applicable rules and guidance of the DEP and other government entities. We identify appropriate cost-effective remedial options raning from conditional closure to natural attentuation monitoring, source removal, chemical injection, bioremediation, in-situ and ex-situ treatment, post remediation monitoring and site closure. We conduct feasability/pilot tests, utilize fate and transport modeling for contaminants, evaluate available risk management options and prepare remedial action plans and designs, with analysis of potential treatment options, objectives, cleanup strategies, implementation feasability, cost estimates, cleanup milestones, and cleanup logistics, schedules and timeframes.

Remedial Action Implementation

We perform all aspects of the remedial action implementation in accordance with applicable rules and guidance of the DEP and other government entities, and in accordance to the approved Natural Attenuation Monitoring Plan or Remedial Action Plan (RAP); including general coordination and communication during the project, research, evaluation and logistics regarding groundwater monitoring, free product recovery, soil source removal and/or performance of system operation and maintenance, monitoring of the effectiveness of system and necessity for RAP modification, evaluation of site closure options, post remediation monitoring and preperation of associated reports.

Site Closure

We perform all aspects of site closure in accordance with applicable rules and guidance of the DEP and other government entities. HCR makes professional recommendations for a No Further Action closure according to the applicable criteria for Risk Management Options Level I, II, and III in Chapter 62-7800, F.A.C. HCR also provides technical details and professional recommendations to support proposed institutional and/or engineering controls. Lastly, we facilitate the grouting and abandonment of all borings and wells, draining and capping of all subsurface system conduits, removal of equipment and equipment compounds and other acitivities associated with returning the site as near as practicable to the conditions that preceded remedial action.