Why ECS for PFAS assessment and monitoring program assistance services
ECS’ industry expertise qualifies us to provide PFAS assessment and monitoring consulting services that support clients addressing due-diligence challenges in this rapidly changing and emerging contaminant environment. We stay current on updates by participating as an Industry Affiliate Partner with the Interstate Technology Regulatory Council (ITRC).
We’ve developed a strong track record of providing a variety of PFAS services to clients. Past projects include:
- Camp Lejeune and MCAS New River PFAS sampling
- Former Cone Mills due diligence and brownfields-program liability protection
- Willimon industrial park PFAS assessment
- SGWASA PFAS monitoring program assistance
- USCG Multi-Complex Academic PFAS assessment and waste characterization
- Oak Ridge illegal dumping PFAS assessment and subject matter expert
- Delaware mobile PFAS treatment
- MCAS Cherry Point TCLP/PFAS runway water and bulk-waste sampling
Our holistic approach to PFAS
The ECS staff includes engineers, geologists, environmental scientists and technicians with decades of cumulative experience in environmental site assessment. We deploy experienced PFAS site practitioners to our projects for the following services:
Understanding the EPA’s PFAS guidelines
Property and facility owners/authorities and builders must be aware of the potential presence of PFAS. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) designated two PFAS compounds known as PFOA and PFOS as well as their salts and structural isomers to be hazardous substances under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), i.e. Superfund. This designation requires releases of PFAS to be reported and holds PFAS polluters accountable for corrective action.
Superfund prioritizes enforcement at sites presenting unreasonable risk to human health and the environment and is accompanied by a PFAS-enforcement discretion policy. The discretion prioritizes enforcement on significant contributors without intent to enforce certain parties such as farmers, municipal landfills, municipal airports and water utilities.
The EPA also finalized a national drinking water maximum contaminant level (MCL) of four parts per trillion (4 ppt) for PFOS and PFOA. The finalized MCL includes a hazard-index calculation that sums four additional PFAS compounds including PFNA, PFHxS, PFBS and HFPO-DA, also known as GenX.
Compliance with the hazard index MCL is set by a running annual average. If the calculated running annual average Hazard Index of two or more of the four compounds is greater than one ppt, it would constitute a violation of the Hazard Index MCL. Public-operated treatment works have three years to conduct initial PFAS monitoring and five overall years to comply with the PFAS MCLs in their drinking water.
EPA-targeted industries for PFAS contamination
The following industries have been identified by the EPA as deserving of intensive scrutiny to monitor and manage PFAS contamination due to manufacturing practices:
- Metal finishing and plating
- Industrial surfactants
- Paper products and packaging
- Cable and wiring
- Semiconductor/photolithography
- Textiles, leather, apparel, carpet and furniture manufacturing
Major potential sources of PFAS:
- Primary chemical manufacturing facilities
- Manufacturing facilities that use PFAS
- Military installations
- Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF) for firefighting training or use sites
- Wastewater treatment plants
- Landfills, biosolids and spray irrigation sites
Why ECS for PFAS assessment and monitoring program assistance services
ECS’ industry expertise qualifies us to provide PFAS assessment and monitoring consulting services that support clients addressing due-diligence challenges in this rapidly changing and emerging contaminant environment. We stay current on updates by participating as an Industry Affiliate Partner with the Interstate Technology Regulatory Council (ITRC).
We’ve developed a strong track record of providing a variety of PFAS services to clients. Past projects include:
- Camp Lejeune and MCAS New River PFAS sampling
- Former Cone Mills due diligence and brownfields-program liability protection
- Willimon industrial park PFAS assessment
- SGWASA PFAS monitoring program assistance
- USCG Multi-Complex Academic PFAS assessment and waste characterization
- Oak Ridge illegal dumping PFAS assessment and subject matter expert
- Delaware mobile PFAS treatment
- MCAS Cherry Point TCLP/PFAS runway water and bulk-waste sampling
Our holistic approach to PFAS
The ECS staff includes engineers, geologists, environmental scientists and technicians with decades of cumulative experience in environmental site assessment. We deploy experienced PFAS site practitioners to our projects for the following services:
Understanding the EPA’s PFAS guidelines
Property and facility owners/authorities and builders must be aware of the potential presence of PFAS. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) designated two PFAS compounds known as PFOA and PFOS as well as their salts and structural isomers to be hazardous substances under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), i.e. Superfund. This designation requires releases of PFAS to be reported and holds PFAS polluters accountable for corrective action.
Superfund prioritizes enforcement at sites presenting unreasonable risk to human health and the environment and is accompanied by a PFAS-enforcement discretion policy. The discretion prioritizes enforcement on significant contributors without intent to enforce certain parties such as farmers, municipal landfills, municipal airports and water utilities.
The EPA also finalized a national drinking water maximum contaminant level (MCL) of four parts per trillion (4 ppt) for PFOS and PFOA. The finalized MCL includes a hazard-index calculation that sums four additional PFAS compounds including PFNA, PFHxS, PFBS and HFPO-DA, also known as GenX.
Compliance with the hazard index MCL is set by a running annual average. If the calculated running annual average Hazard Index of two or more of the four compounds is greater than one ppt, it would constitute a violation of the Hazard Index MCL. Public-operated treatment works have three years to conduct initial PFAS monitoring and five overall years to comply with the PFAS MCLs in their drinking water.
EPA-targeted industries for PFAS contamination
The following industries have been identified by the EPA as deserving of intensive scrutiny to monitor and manage PFAS contamination due to manufacturing practices:
- Metal finishing and plating
- Industrial surfactants
- Paper products and packaging
- Cable and wiring
- Semiconductor/photolithography
- Textiles, leather, apparel, carpet and furniture manufacturing
Major potential sources of PFAS:
- Primary chemical manufacturing facilities
- Manufacturing facilities that use PFAS
- Military installations
- Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF) for firefighting training or use sites
- Wastewater treatment plants
- Landfills, biosolids and spray irrigation sites
