Sustainable Practices

Because KEMRON’s commitment to protecting the environment is the cornerstone of our business, we’ve practiced sustainable environmental remediation for more than 30 years.  With the continued proliferation of environmental rules and regulations, KEMRON has developed solutions that mitigate environmental risk, reuse and recycle resources and eliminate environmental hazards.

These practices include reclaiming contaminated properties for productive use, developing treatment technologies that detoxify chemical wastes, using naturally occurring resources like biological and natural attenuation processes to facilitate remediation and identifying alternative uses for waste material to avoid traditional disposal methods.  Through our treatability laboratory, we have researched hundreds of environmental remedies including the use of plant life to remove toxins from the environment – a process known as phytoremediation.

We support our clients with professional consulting services to identify and implement sustainable environmental practices, minimizing the carbon footprint of remedial activities and reducing the risks associated with contaminated properties.  Through energy management, waste reduction, recycling and continuous improvement, we help clients reach their sustainability goals.

  • Examples of Practices

    Canon Road Site. At this site, KEMRON discovered several thousand CO2 canisters. KEMRON designed and constructed an intrinsically safe device to allow depressurization and destruction of the canisters which then allowed the canisters to be recycled. Also, KEMRON researched and found a university to take radioactive material found on site; the EPA transferred ownership to the university, eliminating any T&D costs.

    Crozet Arsenic Cleanup. For this residential cleanup, the residents expressed concern about the removal of mature trees at the site. To avoid this, KEMRON conducted phytoremediation through the installation of ferns. KEMRON conducted the LTM at the site, planting ferns in the spring and removing and disposing of the ferns in the fall. This innovative approach showed significant success with the removed ferns measuring up to 50,000 ppm of arsenic during the confirmation sampling conducted during removal and disposal.

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