Our operation/maintenance services are the final component of our full-service remedial engineering capabilities. Roux Associates will perform the final inspection, field startup/testing, trouble-shooting and fine-tuning of a remediation system, as well as training of the client’s operations personnel. Once a system has been tested and is up and running, Roux Associates can prepare detailed operation/maintenance plans and operate and maintain a wide variety of remediation systems, regardless of whether or not the system was designed by our engineering teams. System operation and maintenance may be performed on a full- or part-time basis by an engineer or a technician under the direction of an in-house engineer.
Examples of remedial systems that are operated and maintained by Roux Associates include the following:
- Groundwater extraction and treatment systems;
- Passive product recovery-only systems;
- High vacuum extraction recovery systems;
- Air sparging/soil vapor extraction systems;
- Enhanced reductive dechlorination injection systems;
- Oxygen injection bioremediation systems; and
- Sub-slab depressurization systems.
Roux Associates applies a comprehensive approach to system operation and maintenance. Operation/maintenance plans are carefully prepared by the engineering design team with critical performance requirements and reference information, startup procedures, operating set points, operational data forms and routine maintenance requirements. Technicians are assigned to each system based on system size complexity and may include teams of several full-time technicians or one part-time technician. Each system is assigned a project engineer and principal to provide regular communications with the operations personnel, schedule performance monitoring and prepare reports. The Project team reviews all operating and performance data to verify compliance with permit requirements. All project engineers are trained to vigorously review operating information to identify areas of operational performance improvement and identify when remedial goals have been achieved.
