The staff at Alpha have experience in the implementation and protocol for analytical programs including USEPA CLP, USEPA RCRA (SW 846), New York ASP (CLP AND RCRA), New Jersey DEP (ISRA), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, NYSDEC Part 360, and Pennsylvania DER. Alpha provides expert technical support and opinions for a variety of clients that include commercial and industrial companies, consultants, utilities, and governmental entities regarding issues concerning surface and ground water quality, soil and sediment quality, permitted discharges, petroleum cleanups, hazardous materials, solid waste disposal, and environmental impacts. Alpha personnel provide environmental chemistry services including:

• Preparing Data Validation and Data Usability Summary Reports.
• Performing and Documenting Sampling of Soil, Sediment, and Ground Water for Laboratory Analyses.
• Field-Screening of Volatile Organic Compounds Using Portable Gas Chromatography.
• Preparing Quality Assurance Project Plans.
• Performing Audits of Fixed-Base and Mobile (Field) Laboratories.
• Evaluating Analytical Laboratory Methods for Application to Various Environmental Media and Chemicals.
• Reviewing Laboratory-Generated Data to Evaluate the Level of Analytical Confidence.
• Recommending Analytical Methodologies and Modifications to Achieve Specific Reporting Requirements and Project Goals.
• Providing coordination and communication between laboratory analytical professionals and environmental scientists.
• Providing Expert Opinion Regarding Field and Laboratory Methods and Interpreting Analytical Results.
• Evaluating the Environmental Fate and Transport of Chemicals.

Alpha Geoscience provides third party data validation for a variety of clients that include industry, municipalities, utilities, universities, attorneys, engineers, consultants, and analytical laboratories. Alpha has reviewed organic and inorganic data that include PCBs, volatiles, semi-volatiles, pesticides, herbicides, dioxins and furans, metals, radioactive materials, and classical chemistries. The work has been conducted under various state and federal regulatory programs throughout the U.S. Some examples of Alpha’s significant projects are summarized below.

• Reviewed and validated analytiacal data for volatiles, semi-volatiles, pesticides, herbicides, PCBs, metals, and leachate indicators for facilities in New York, in support of NYSDEC Part 360 Solid Waste Regulations.
• Validated analytical data generated for a major university in upstate New York, for surface and ground water samples collected at a chemical disposal site, a radioactive disposal site, and a waste water treatment facility, in accordance with post-closure monitoring requirements.
• Performed data validation and prepared data usability summary reports in support of NYSDEC’s Analytical Services Protocol program for clients in New York. Chemicals of concern included PCBs, volatiles, semi-volatiles, classical chemistries, and metals. Site owners included municipalities and petrochemical industries.
• Reviewed and validated analytical data for soil, sediment, and ground water investigations and remediation projects for former manufactured gas plants for utility companies in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
• Performed data validation for an investigation and monitoring at several former manufacturing or disposal sites in New Jersey. The project required using client-specific, standard operating procedures for validating the data.
• Validated data for CERCLA sites in New Jersey and New York, and RCRA sites in New Jersey, Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, in EPA Region II. The sites included manufacturing facility landfills, a municipal landfill and a industrial waste disposal facility.
• Performed data validation for 12 commercial and industrial sites in support of New Jersey’s Industrial Site Recovery Act (ISRA) regulations. Site owners included petrochemical and telecommunication facilities throughout New Jersey.
• Reviewed and validated analytical data generated for RCRA remedial investigations and corrective action sites in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, EPA Region III. The sites consisted of industrial waste landfills.