by Tait Russell Continuing our previous blog discussions regarding area-wide contamination, this blog will cover the Yakima Railroad Area (YRRA) where industrial activities have caused wide-spread groundwater contamination. The YRRA is approximately six square miles, including parts of Yakima and Union Gap which are contaminated with perchloroethylene (PCE). PCE is…
by Collin McCracken There is a saying in construction: “It has to get worse before it gets better.” While building your project, you may run into several roadblocks that require a lot of effort to work around. One common obstacle we encounter during construction in Western Washington is an…
by David Baumgarten Very early in my consulting career, the firm I was working for had an in-house workshop for the new staff. One of the firm’s principals posed the question to the group “What do we do?” Answers included, we do geotechnical engineering studies, hydrogeology studies, environmental assessments, slope…
