Specialists Applying GIS to Environmental Engineering Projects

Destiny specializes in providing GIS, mapping, analysis, 3D modeling, and data services to environmental characterization, remediation, and design/development risk and impact assessment.

We’ve utilized GIS in support of soil, water, groundwater, and air investigations. This includes problems originating from petroleum hydrocarbons and additives (MTBE, BTEX, TPH, DROs, TEL, TML…); polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs); chlorinated solvents (TCE, TCA, DCE, PCE…); PCBs; pesticides and agricultural chemicals; heavy metals (copper, chromium, arsenic, lead, mercury…); radio nuclides (plutonium, uranium, americium…); dioxins and furans, VOCs, asbestos, etc.

We’ve also utilize GIS to present complex technical information to stakeholders and to the public, and in support of regulatory compliance, settlement negotiations, litigation, and courtroom presentation.

Using a range of GIS and modeling tools, Destiny conducts studies to:

• Evaluate historic and background environmental and ecological conditions
• Examine potential solutions, risks, impacts, and concern areas
• Evaluate risks to human health, water supplies, and sensitive environments
• Examine and relate potential point sources and responsible parties
• Relate claimed damages and risks to sources
• Balance development and natural environments
• Develop detailed cost models
• Illustrate project complexities and historic relationships

Examples include:

• Examining non-aqueous phase liquids (NAPLs), including separate phase NAPLs and dissolved phase contaminants, above and below the water table, and relating findings to varying site histories and conditions, business risks, and concern areas

• Examining perchlorates, NDMA, DIMP, chemicals, and degradation by-products in the context of a broader environmental damage scenario

• Examining claimed damages in a vapor intrustion scenario resulting from the storage of handled oil, gasoline, diesel, and chlorinated solvents

• Developing predictive if-then scenarios incorporating a range of processes and conditions, for example: contaminated soil erosion modeling with consideration for severe weather patterns, multiple weather events, risk and impact assessment, and emergency response

• Examining methane gas in water supplies and relating contaminant distribution to potential point sources, including natural occurrences, and comparing sources to claimed damages, damage distribution, and potential responsible parties

Environmental Engineering Project Descriptions