BRIDGEWATER GROUP OFFERS A BROAD RANGE OF SERVICES
- Siting and Permitting
- Environmental Compliance and Information Management
- Environmental Liability Management
- Site Characterization and Remediation
Bridgewater Group provides a broad range of technical
capabilities related to siting and permitting new facilities including
electrical generation (wind, gas, coal, hydro), transmission,
industrial, recreation, fisheries, and other types of facilities
requiring permits to construct or operate. This experience is
concentrated in the Northwest, but also extends into much of the
Western US.
Our goal is to meet the needs of the project while navigating regulatory requirements. Specific services include the following:
- Site assessment, constraints analysis and fatal flaw
reviews
- Multi-media permitting including air, storm water,
wastewater and hazardous waste
- Identification of project permitting needs and
establishment of permitting strategies and schedules
- Agency negotiations, planning, and coordination
We deliver comprehensive and cost-effective resource studies and surveys required for all types of projects. By putting together a local team of experts and subconsultants, we offer the complete range of services needed to support your project. We and our strategic partners have played a leading role for projects subject to many of the state environmental and energy siting certification processes such as Washington’s State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) and State Energy Facility Siting Evaluation Council (EFSEC), Oregon’s Energy Facility Siting Council (EFSC), California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), and Wyoming Industrial Siting Act (ISA). We have participated or had major roles in the analysis, resource studies, and overall permitting for major utility-scale wind, gas-fired generation, industrial facilities as well as smaller scale recreation, fisheries, or commercial facilities requiring conditional use or county permits.
Bridgewater and our subconsultant partners local experience
and solid relationship with the regulatory agencies eliminates the
learning curve on project area environmental conditions and give you
the comfort your permits will be obtained efficiently and within the
required timeframes.
ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
Bridgewater Group prides itself in its ability to
understand its client's business and identify opportunities to lower
the cost of environmental management. In this context, we have assisted
clients in the development of multi-year programs to re-engineer their
environmental function and business processes. We have conducted
studies to demonstrate the potential cost and revenue ramifications of
improved environmental decision-making processes. Specific services
include:
- Regulatory compliance audits, assessments, and
consulting
- Air quality impact evaluations and compliance strategy
development
- Federal, state, or local facility permitting for industrial
or energy facilities
- Environmental management system development and
implementation
Managing environmental compliance obligations in
an ever-changing business and regulatory climate is one of the top
challenges for today’s environmental managers. Most organizations
we work with are often faced staff reductions while their compliance
burdens continue to increase.
We work to tailor compliance programs to the needs and goals
of the organization; from “baseline” compliance evaluations to
ascertain systemic and programmatic deficiencies, single and
multi-facility compliance audits, compliance program development,
permit preparation and permitting strategy development, to day-to-day
onsite compliance assistance.
We are all engineers and regulatory program specialists. This
background provides a unique integration of industrial process
knowledge with the governing environmental regulations.
We carefully track anticipated and proposed rulemaking so that
we help you understand compliance today as well as what it will be in
the near future so that valuable resources will be extended to meet
future compliance needs.
ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY
MANAGEMENT
One of Bridgewater Group's specialties is the economic
evaluation of environmental liabilities in support of mergers &
acquisitions, insurance cost recovery actions, and reserve analysis. We
have a reputation for providing our clients with highly defensible and
reliable estimates including relatively complex environmental
liabilities such as sediment cleanup in harbors and waterways, cleanup
of sites with potential endocrine disruptors, natural resource damages,
and regional landfills.
Specific services include the following:
- Insurance cost recovery
- Third-party review of environmental liabilities
- Economic evaluation of liabilities
- Portfolio management strategies
SITE CHARACTERIZATION AND
REMEDIATION
We create value by developing and implementing
integrated technical, regulatory, project delivery, insurance,
financial, and administrative solutions that significantly reduce the
cost of site investigation and cleanup. We have a proven track record
of creating total cost savings ranging from 20 to 80 percent on
individual sites and portfolios of sites.
We also lower the cost of site cleanup through our hands-on approach to project management and our ability to access the resources required to complete larger projects on an as needed basis. As a firm of six senior experts, clients can be assured that the person who crafted the project strategy will direct its implementation. Clients can also be assured that during implementation, they will pay for resources only when they are needed. These two aspects of our business model have translated into 20 to 30 percent cost savings on site investigation and cleanup projects.
Our experience encompasses all phases of the site cleanup process, including project scoping, site investigation, risk evaluations, feasibility studies, and remedial action design and implementation. We have extensive experience in Federal Superfund and RCRA corrective action site cleanups, as well as experience with a number of state-level programs. Finally, Bridgewater Group has a broad base of experience in both upland and sediment cleanups involving PCBs, PAHs, VOCs, pesticides, and metals. Specific services include the following:
- Remedial investigations, risk evaluations, feasibility
studies, and remedial designs for contaminated soils, groundwater,
sediments, surface water, and wetlands
- Agency negotiations support
- Brownfield redevelopment
- Cost allocation
- NRDA strategy development and support