West Central Environmental Consultants, Inc. (WCEC) services

WCEC’s experience at petroleum release sites is extensive and comprehensive. Projects successfully completed by WCEC include but are not limited to overseeing the removal of underground storage tanks (USTs) at retail petroleum stations, providing emergency response, site investigation and corrective action implementation services at train derailments and petroleum pipeline sites involving large-scale release of hydrocarbons, completion of high resolution site characterization using direct sensing technologies, and preparation of 3D integrated site visualizations as part of our development of comprehensive site conceptual models.

WCEC assists clients with a variety of environmental and regulatory compliance issues under Federal, state, and local regulatory programs, including the following: Facility Response Plans (FRP). Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) Plans. National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits. Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plans (SWPPP). Other Regulatory Compliance Issues.

WCEC has over 24 years of experience in agricultural chemical investigations and remediation at over 200 sites. In addition, WCEC’s locations in rural and metropolitan areas of the midwestern United States facilitates our ability to stay well-informed regarding current agricultural operations and practices.

WCEC assists clients in understanding potentially significant environmental risks and liabilities associated with property, and our highly responsive team of investigators understands that with property transactions and refinancing, timely and thorough due diligence is essential. Our multidisciplinary team completes hundreds of projects for the private, commercial, industrial, and government sectors.

As first responders to hazardous chemical spills by the transportation industry, including railroads, trucking firms, fuel delivery companies and airlines, WCEC’s highly trained emergency response staff are supported by our professional scientists and engineers to ensure that a safe and comprehensive mitigation of the spill and associated hazards is achieved. Our emergency response group also specializes in supporting public and private clients at natural disaster and hazardous environment locations such as vapor intrusion mitigation where threats to human health and the environment are identified. Whether you’re facing a 10 gallon industrial chemical spill or a 10,000 bbl crude oil spill, WCEC will provide highly trained personnel that are equipped to safely manage the incident through closure.

WCEC`s emergency response services are available to all of our private and governmental clients. When a hazardous spill or an environmental accident happens, WCEC provides effective solutions and dependable remediation. Experienced in petroleum, chemical, fertilizer and hazardous materials, we coordinate and implement resources to provide a quick response to any environmental emergency 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Emergency Response, Environmental, Full Service Contract. WCEC is pleased to provide services to Minnesota state agencies through the Minnesota Department of Administration, Materials Management Division`s Emergency Response, Environmental, Full Service Contract. This contract was renewed for another 5 year term in January 2015.

WCEC`s petroleum treatment facility located in Fridley, Minnesota has greater than 200,000 gallons of storage capacity and the capacity to treat several types of petroleum-based industrial waste products. WCEC provides waste treatment to a variety of industrial customers including major oil companies, pipelines, Class I Railroads, utility companies, government agencies and other industries that generate waste petroleum materials.