Wetland Evaluations

Modern Geosciences provides wetland evaluations to assess a project's potential physical, chemical, and biological impact in accordance with any associated federal, state or municipal regulatory or permitting requirements. (more…)

Vapor Intrusion (VI) Inspection and Mitigation

Modern Geosciences provides expert vapor intrusion (VI) inspection and mitigation services designed to confirm, identify and locate the source of potential contamination and to mitigate the health risks posed to associated indoor environments. (more…)

Threatened and Endangered Species Evaluation

Modern Geosciences provides threatened and endangered species evaluation services to identify, confirm and locate potentially impacted species in their natural habitat and mitigate any risk as part of a comprehensive due diligence process. (more…)

Technical Review and Comment

Modern Geosciences provides expert technical review and comment services for clients to assess and identify any significant environmental impacts that may result from projects, to offer fact-based issue resolution methodologies and process outlines, and to prepare any necessary environmental planning documents that may be required for the project. (more…)

Tank Removal and Closure

Modern Geosciences is experienced at producing the regulatory confirmation documentation required to obtain underground and above ground storage tank removal and closure. (more…)

Tank Inspections and Investigations

Modern Geosciences provides tank inspections and investigations to confirm that tank operations meet regulatory compliance and to mitigate any potential financial or environmental impact. (more…)

Surface Water Assessment

The Modern Geosciences team of qualified environmental professionals is experienced in providing surface water assessment, planning, engineering, monitoring, analysis and permitting services for numerous state agencies, municipalities, developers and industrial clients. (more…)

Storm Water System Inspections

As part of our infrastructure management services, Modern Geosciences performs storm water system inspections and ongoing system monitoring on miles of municipal water system components. (more…)

Statistical Site Evaluations

Modern Geosciences' statistical site evaluations process employs a variety of modeling and risk calculation methods to determine appropriate cleanup values for varying site situations. (more…)

Soil and Groundwater Remediation

The Modern Geosciences team is experienced in the development of customized soil and groundwater remediation plans, implementation strategies and ongoing compliance solution programs for recalcitrant pollutants found in soil and groundwater. (more…)

Site Reuse Design

Modern Geosciences is experienced in site reuse design in an effort to bring sites where environmental concerns are present back into productive use through processes protective of both human health and the environment. (more…)

Site Investigation Design and Sampling

Modern Geosciences' team of environmental experts develops site investigation design and sampling programs for the collection and laboratory analysis of soil and groundwater samples in an effort to establish a complete understanding of the environmental risks associated with a site. (more…)

Site Inspections

Modern Geosciences collects and reviews available information about a known or suspected hazardous waste site or release as part of our preliminary assessment and site inspection (PA/SI) process. (more…)

Remedial Planning

Modern Geoscience provides safe, compliant and affordable environmental remedial planning services to clients in the industrial, commercial, retail and government sectors. (more…)

Remedial Design and Remedial Action (RD/RA)

Modern Geosciences has extensive remedial design and remedial action (RD/RA) experience, having addressed environmental concerns from past industrial operations, landfills and other commercial businesses. (more…)

Regulatory Compliance Audits

Modern Geosciences provides customized, client-focused regulatory compliance audits to identify and assess potential environmental liabilities and compliance concerns for any given site or organization, including gas stations, oil and gas facilities, industrial manufacturing plants or other commercial or industrial operation (more…)

Regulatory Closure Strategy and Completion

Modern Geosciences produces innovative Regulatory Closure Strategy and Completion for commercial properties negatively impacted by past uses. (more…)

Process Inspections

When potential process or operational concerns are warranted, Modern Geosciences in providing thorough and effective Process Inspections that identify key environmental changes, mitigate potential impact and drive strategic remediation solutions. (more…)

Pipeline Inspection and Investigation

Modern Geosciences provides Pipeline Inspection and Investigation services to assess pipeline integrity and regulatory concerns and mitigate business, property and environmental risk. (more…)

Phase II Site Investigations

Modern Geosciences has extensive experience designing and implementing on-site Phase II site investigations to confirm, locate and identify recognized environmental conditions (RECs) or concerns. (more…)

Phase I ESA

The Phase I ESA standard represents the most common tool for environmental due diligence. However, no two sites are the same. While many firms offer this service, Modern Geosciences has a highly trained staff that is often called on for the most complex and challenging properties (more…)

Perimeter Monitoring

If you work in an industry where you may contribute to air quality concerns, you need to understand not only your contribution but also the context of perimeter levels coming and going from your site. This can be accomplished with perimeter monitoring services. (more…)

Municipal Setting Designations (MSDs)

Municipal setting designations (MSDs) are an institutional control to prevent the use of shallow groundwater within a targeted footprint. In doing so, several cleanup criteria can be adjusted to better reflect actual site conditions, often making site closure costs more manageable. (more…)

Media-Specific Risk Calculation

As with any data, context matters. We can help you determine where your actual risk and project costs are as well as what regulatory strategies will best work for the specific concerns at your site. (more…)

Leak Detection and Repair (LDAR)

As industrial operations become more common within urban settings, leak detection and repair (LDAR) approaches need to be updated to account for increased public and regulatory scrutiny. Modern Geosciences is a leading innovator in the LDAR community and can help you find and address issues before larger concerns occur. (more…)

Landfill Evaluations

We understand that routine maintenance and monitoring is a constant concern for landfill operators. Routine landfill evaluations can help operators mitigate their environmental risks. (more…)

Institutional and Engineering Controls

Modern Geosciences can help evaluate which institutional and engineering controls may be right for you project to prevent and minimize on-site environmental risks. (more…)

Incremental Sampling Design

For larger projects where individual sampling of discrete points can lead to diminishing returns and exhaustive costs, Modern Geosciencs has worked with ways to represent large areas or volumes using incremental sampling design methods to ensure you understand site conditions. These efforts are often employed when real-time field decisions are needed to help keep a project schedule as short as possible. (more…)

Impacted Soil and Groundwater Management

Without proper planning you can often find yourself inadvertently exposing construction staff to situations they are not trained for or worse, spreading contamination to other properties where you now become an additional responsible party. Working with properties requiring impacted soil and groundwater management requires thinking beyond the closure process to ensure long term liability is minimized. (more…)

Health and Safety Planning and Monitoring

Whether you have a general construction project or environmental investigation underway to collect representative data, with health and safety planning and monitoring, you can ensure all possible risks are anticipated and your staff is well trained to address them. (more…)

Geodatabase Development

As we encounter more and more data, it is important we develop the tools to effective use and share this information. Geodatabases serve as the basic collection tools to build GIS-referenced datasets. With this, you can generate relevant maps and databases for your project. (more…)

Fact Witness

We're often called upon to support legal clients who need to confirm industry practices and procedures were carried out or whether the other side's depiction of events stands up to scrutiny. (more…)

Expert Witness

Attorneys often call on us for our professional litigation support and expert witness services to help judges and juries clearly understand the scientific data that often accompanies environmental cases. (more…)

Expedited Lead Assessment

Lead is a common contaminant found in everything from paint to large-scale soil impacts resulting from historic smelter operations that can affect hundreds of acres. (more…)

Cultural Resource Evaluations

Cultural resource management involves inventorying sites, evaluating them, and sometimes mitigating the adverse effects of development projects and construction. (more…)

Business Environmental Risk Assessment

Business environmental risk assessments characterize the nature and magnitude of risk to humans and ecology from chemical contaminants and other stressors, that may be present in the environment, so that the information can be used to determine how best to enact protections from those contaminants. (more…)

Asbestos Surveys

Modern Geosciences regularly coordinates the evaluation of asbestos-containing material at properties during the performance of our other services. (more…)

Ambient Air Program Management

Modern Geosciences currently assists our clients with everything from site-specific inspections to large-scale ambient air quality monitoring programs. (more…)