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Case
Studies
Below please find a brief sampling of case studies pertaining
to Winefield & Associates projects. Numerous additional case
studies are available upon request.
Choose the link below for
the related case studies of interest:
(Boat Manufacturing Facility, Adelanto, California)
| Challenge: |
Client needs a fast, but comprehensive audit of a company’s
health and safety program as part of a pre-acquisition due
diligence. The purpose of the audit is to identify and evaluate
current and future risks. |
| Solution: |
W&A utilizes several senior staff members to review
the health and safety program documents and evaluate worker
compensation claims and expenditure records. The facility
is visited and the operational processes and employee work
practices are evaluated. Air samples, both area and personal,
are collected for styrene, the primary chemical used at the
facility. An air monitoring survey is also performed for
other chemicals used at the facility. The data is compiled,
evaluated, and recommendations for engineering controls to
reduce employee exposures are provided. |
| Result: |
Program deficiencies and potentially significant liabilities
are identified while negotiations are still underway. The
study results and engineering control cost data is used by
our client to re-evaluate the desirability of the acquisition. |
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(Powerine Oil Company, Santa Fe Springs, California)
| Challenge: |
Petroleum interest decides to sell its refining, terminalling,
and pipeline operations, and requires a systematic means
to present its environmental and safety liabilities to prospective
purchasers. |
| Solution: |
Matt Winefield develops due diligence summaries and becomes
lead interface for over twenty prospective purchasers. Sensitive
disclosures regarding multimedia environmental and safety
issues are presented to a bevy of candidates in a matter
that limits Powerine’s regulatory exposure while providing
sufficient information to prospective purchasers’ technical
teams. Topics of concern include, but are not limited to:
air quality violations; subsurface remediation; hazardous
waste storage violations; process safety compliance; and
worker safety. |
| Result: |
Powerine Oil Company is sold to CENCO Refining Company,
which eventually sells the company’s numerous assets
to separate parties. |
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(Confidential Spa Manufacturer, Inland Empire, California)
| Challenge: |
Major manufacturing client is concerned its operations
are not complying with toxics and hazardous waste rules,
and wants a confidential assessment and plan of action. |
| Solution: |
W&A builds a multi-disciplinary team to manage a comprehensive
site and operations assessment, including air quality, waste
water, storm water and hazardous waste analyses, and benchmarking
general safety and industrial hygiene components of operation.
Team designs an innovative toxics self-reporting program,
institutes new facility operating procedures that meet hazardous
waste reduction and storm water permitting rules, and launches
employee hazardous waste and industrial safety training. |
| Result: |
Eliminate $1-million in potential regulatory fines against
client and reduce hazardous waste liabilities and costs. |
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(Confidential Bakery, Southern California)
| Challenge: |
Client needs an effective, environmental management system
to audit environmental programs, facility permits, and equipment
permits that lessens compliance burden on facility personnel. |
| Solution: |
W&A customizes a program to identify environmental
regulations and laws governing bakery operations relative
to air quality, water quality, hazardous waste generation,
and hazardous material management. The team audits facility
activities permitted equipment, Air Toxics Hot Spots Program,
mobile source, refrigerant and oven emissions, and Proposition
65 disclosures. Water conveyances in the facility including
process water and storm water discharges are evaluated. Waste
generation processes, waste storage and handling practices,
waste manifests, program documents, and waste minimization
reports are also assessed.
The team creates a systematic,
objective environmental management system to evaluate the
effectiveness of the environmental program, status of compliance,
and status
of the facility’s permits. These innovative steps save valuable time. |
| Result: |
The management system provides operational personnel easy
access to information on required monitoring and submittals.
Client saves on potential regulatory fines, reduced compliance
man-hours, and direct costs. |
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(Confidential Aerospace Product Manufacturer, Cypress, California)
| Challenge: |
The Orange County Health Care Agency (OCHCA) cites the
facility for noncompliance with programs relating to: Permit-by-Rule
(PBR); biennial waste reporting; hazardous waste training;
and hazardous waste tank integrity certifications. |
| Solution: |
Winefield & Associates (W&A) completes expeditious
and focused hazardous waste services in order to comply with
the OCHCA order. The services require a thorough understanding
of the hazardous wastewater treatment facility as well as
the manufacturing processes for flexible heaters, temperature
sensors, and other aerospace components. W&A writes a
streamlined wastewater system operations manual and trains
the facility operators on its contents. Other PBR issues
such as the Notice of Intent and financial assessment are
also addressed. As part of the tank integrity assessment,
W&A also designs structural improvements for the hazardous
waste tank system. |
| Result: |
The client improves its hazardous waste management programs
and avoids any potential fines from the OCHCA. |
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(Confidential Food Manufacturer and Distributor, Compton, California)
| Challenge: |
The Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACFD) cites the
facility for noncompliance with the following programs: Spill
Prevention, Control and Countermeasures (SPCC); Hazardous
Waste Contingency Planning; and Hazardous Waste Generator
Inspections. |
| Solution: |
W&A revises or develops programs as necessary to meet
the requirements of the LACFD directive. The facility has
unique SPCC requirements; only after intense regulatory research
does it become clear that the client’s refrigerated
trailer fuel tanks require inspection procedures. The Contingency
Plan is updated to reflect major facility changes in recent
years and an inspection procedure is developed for the Hazardous
Waste Accumulation Area. |
| Result: |
The client improves its hazardous waste management programs
and avoids any potential fines from the LACFD. |
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(City of Lynwood Redevelopment Agency, Lynwood, CA)
| Challenge: |
City wants to redevelop 5 acres of blighted commercial
and residential properties for beneficial commercial use.
However, properties are owned by several parties. Two of
the properties have significant releases to the subsurface,
and multiple environmental consultants have been involved
in the assessments of the contamination plumes. City needs
consultant to bring all parties together, integrate all investigation,
determine a reasonable worst-case remediation estimate, and
then direct remediation as a single and coordinated effort. |
| Solution: |
W&A reviews all reports of investigations performed
at the two sites and produces a comprehensive assessment
of the then-known condition of the subsurface. W&A identifies
data gaps in the assessments, and is hired to oversee future
assessment and determine a cost-estimate for remedial work
on the project. W&A subcontracts one firm to assist with
additional assessment activities and perform field work.
W&A then assimilates all data and prepares and submits
a site conceptual model, a remedial action plan, a feasibility
study, and an estimate for the cost of the remediation. The
remedial action plan details a 6-step approach including:
high- and low-vacuum extraction in the vadose zone; air sparging
in the saturated zone; skimming free product from the saturated
zone; in-situ oxidation of chlorinated solvents in the groundwater;
and pump-and-treat of the groundwater. |
| Result: |
Due to W&A efforts to define environmental conditions
and remedies, the City is able to attract investors to the
site. Additionally, the City obtains signed leases for 90%
of the proposed future developments. |
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(Powerine Oil Company, Santa Fe Springs, California)
| Challenge: |
Client needs to swiftly transfer a 60-year old petroleum
terminal property to a new owner without jeopardizing its
other operations. |
| Solution: |
W&A personnel complete tasks of characterizing, remediating
and certifying the site. In parallel with the demolition,
W&A experts drill and excavate 5,000 cubic yards of soil
at the site, moving contaminated soils to a secure location
for later bioremediation. They create a full hydrogeologic
model and health risk assessment and integrate a groundwater
extraction plan into the development plans for the site.
These innovative steps save valuable time. |
| Result: |
Client is able to close terminal and fully transfer ownership
in four months. |
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(ABEX-Yeager, Pomona, California)
| Challenge: |
Industrial client faces multiple regulatory agencies, and
must quickly clean up a 4-acre site significantly contaminated
by lead slag from past manufacturing. |
| Solution: |
W&A customizes a program to completely oversee and
manage compliance with all regulatory rules and health and
safety requirements. Hazardous waste is treated on site via
cement fixation, using a portable plant, rather than transporting
and disposing of the lead. W&A’s team implements
soil sampling and reporting activities, industrial hygiene
monitoring, and safety training of workers treating the hazardous
waste. The team handles the plant’s mix design sampling
and reporting, modifies the site Closure Plan and provides
closure reporting, including all interactions with regulatory
agencies. |
| Result: |
Within five months W&A has resolved closure and treatment
issues while saving client more than $8 million with the
fixation technique when compared with the cost of landfill
disposal of the lead slag waste. |
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(Confidential Creamery, Southern California)
| Challenge: |
Analyze the facility wastewater systems to determine
methods to avoid payment of a new connection fee to the
Los Angeles
County Sanitation District (District) for exceeding 125%
of the Facility’s baseline wastewater discharge capacity
allotment.
A discharge surcharge is paid annually to the District that
is based upon the facility’s Base Line Capacity allocation,
total flow volume, peak flow rate, Chemical Oxygen Demand
(COD), and Suspended Solids (SS) quantities. Those companies
discharging greater than 25% of their allotted annual capacity
are also required to pay a substantial connection fee thereby
establishing a new baseline capacity. |
| Solution: |
W&A reviews an engineering evaluation that identifies
possible inaccuracies in the flow measurements due to incorrect
installation of the main effluent flow meter. W&A formulates
a method to verify the inaccuracies of the flow measurement
associated with the main effluent flow meter used to determine
surcharge and capacity values. Monthly monitoring is performed
to test the method. Reports of wastewater capacity and surcharge
costs estimates are prepared. The data collected shows an
exceptional correlation between both COD/SS and the flow
rate, and therefore, the determination of estimated surcharge
costs and capacity assessment charges. Recommendations are
made for the percentage allocation of capacity usage to the
Creamery, Deli/Kitchen, and Distribution operations within
the Facility.
The team recommends automatic, on-line tracking
of the wastewater with a turbidity meter, wastewater flow
meter, and the plant’s data information infrastructure.
A project implementation plan is prepared that outlines the steps necessary
to bring the automated equipment online, and to use the
equipment for tracking wastewater
surcharge cost reductions and capacity assessment cost avoidance at the Facility. |
| Result: |
The plan results in a reduction in both COD and SS, and
reduces the yearly capacity usage from over 400% to less
than 250% in a few months. Wastewater discharge from the
facility is maintained at the reduced level, resulting in
year-to-date capacity usage below 125% of the baseline eliminating
the requirement to pay substantial new connection fees. |
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(Los Angeles Freightliner, Inc., Whittier, California)
| Challenge: |
The truck servicing and transportation company has a
diesel fueling system including a 12,000 gallon UST. The
client has reduced trucking operations and cannot determine
whether to continue operating or remove the fueling system.
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| Solution: |
W&A provides client with a cost/benefit analysis of
keeping the fueling system in service for both short- and
long-term supply or removing it. Client opts to remove
the UST and system. W&A provides entire permitting,
construction management, and environmental engineering
to remove the fueling system. W&A also provides a logistics
plan so that truck traffic on the site is not disturbed
and all truck services at the site remain open.
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| Result: |
Within six weeks W&A has completed a cost/benefit
analysis, provided bids, and removed and closed the former
fueling system with the UST. |
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(JKL Manufacturing, Anaheim, California)
| Challenge: |
The industrial client wishes to decommission his plating
operation and close out his Permit-by-Rule (PBR) facility.
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| Solution: |
W&A reaches agreement with the CUPA for a dismantling
Closure Work Plan. W&A then performs remaining dismantling
of the facility, which includes removal of a concrete floor
from the former plating room and the removal of a 1,500
gallon clarifier. W&A then collects samples of concrete
and soil (from beneath clarifier and plating areas). W&A
also collects wipe samples from floor and walls of the
interior of the manufacturing areas. The concrete waste
is then classified, sorted, and disposed as non-hazardous
and hazardous wastes. W&A then prepares and submits
a final closure report to the local CUPA.
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| Result: |
The W&A efforts prompt the CUPA to close the plating
operation facility as well as the PBR treatment facility. |
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