Munitions and Explosives of Concern (MEC)

Safeguarding Communities and the Environment from Explosive Hazards

For more than 20 years, Bay West has provided Military Munitions Response Program (MMRP), operational range support, and other munitions-related services. Our expert team specializes in addressing challenges within the MMRP, offering comprehensive response services designed to detect, identify, and safely remove or neutralize explosive hazards. With a focus on safety and quality, our teams work diligently to ensure that sites affected by munitions are restored for future use and environmental conservation, using accepted procedures and the latest technologies.

Bay West’s dedicated team of munitions response personnel are highly trained and motivated individuals with extensive field and operational experience in all areas of MMRP, unexploded ordnance (UXO) support, munitions and explosives of concern (MEC) remediation, and UXO safety. Bay West’s project managers, engineers, geologists, geophysicists, former military explosive ordnance disposal, civilian-trained UXO technicians, Senior UXO Supervisors, UXO Safety Officers, and UXO Quality Control Specialists are committed to delivering munitions response services utilizing the latest technology to ensure the safety of communities and the health of the environment. Bay West is safety- and quality-focused with diverse experience, background, and knowledge in conducting investigations on munitions response sites.

Our team has implemented innovative technologies for:

  • UXO anomaly avoidance and construction support
  • Geographic Information System data collection, analysis, and database management
  • Digital geophysical mapping data collection, analysis, and assessment
  • MEC removal
  • UXO surface and intrusive subsurface investigation and clearance
  • Comprehensive site evaluation Phase Is and IIs
  • Preliminary assessments/site investigations
  • Remedial investigations and feasibility studies
  • Proposed Plans and Record of Decisions
  • Remedial designs and remedial actions
  • Operational range assessments
  • Munitions constituents characterization, monitoring, and remediation
  • Open burn/open detonation assessment, investigation, and removal
  • Operational range maintenance and restoration—indoor and outdoor target maintenance, removal, and replacement
  • Training for identification of UXO, and UXO safety and reporting procedures
  • UXO venting and destruction operations
  • Inspection and disposition of material potentially presenting an explosive hazard
  • Inspection and certification of material documented as safe

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