Bioremediation

Harnessing Nature’s Power for Environmental Restoration with Bioremediation

Pollution poses a significant threat to ecosystems and public health, but nature offers powerful solutions to address historic and incident-based contamination safely and effectively. Bay West routinely harnesses nature’s restorative processes for in situ remediation of soil, rock, soil vapor, groundwater, and surface waters. Bioremediation is the most sustainable, cost-effective technology to restore the environment, offering the smallest carbon footprint, minimal energy use, and highest compatibility with renewable energy sources. Our bioremediation services employ the natural processes of microorganisms and plants to break down pollutants, offering a green and sustainable path to decontaminate land and water. Bay West offers turn-key bioremediation services, from site assessment and project design to optimization and closure, tailored to provide solutions to your property’s unique attributes. Our approach not only removes harmful contaminants, but also restores the natural environment, maximizing the value of your property for beneficial reuse or redevelopment.

Our expertise encompasses:

Site Assessment: We determine the suitability of bioremediation for your property based on site operations and goals, contaminant type, concentration, and environmental conditions, we identify cost-effective and time-sensitive remediation solutions.
Customized Treatment Strategies: Every project is unique because the geology and site conditions are unique. From design to implementation, we tailor bioremediation plans that leverage in situ or ex situ strategies and employ microorganisms (bacteria, archaea, fungi, yeasts, or plants) specific to your pollutants, ensuring successful treatment.
Monitoring and Optimization: With our expertise in designing the process and solution, we continuously monitor our progress and performance and adjust our treatment strategies as needed to ensure optimal outcomes in a timely manner.
Compliance and Sustainability: Ensuring that our bioremediation efforts meet regulatory standards and contribute to long-term environmental sustainability, our bioremediation practices detoxify your contaminants into innocuous byproducts like water, carbon, and oxygen.
Typical Contaminants Treated: Our bioremediation services typically treat petroleum hydrocarbons (e.g., gasoline, jet fuel, and benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes), chlorinated solvents, ethanol, nitrates, fertilizers, pesticides, and wood preservatives.

Recent Remediation Experience

PFAS Destruction Using Supercritical Water Oxidation

In partnership with General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS), Bay West is exploring the viability and cost-efficiency of using supercritical water oxidation (SCWO) for treating per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Tests achieved a remarkable 99.94% reduction in PFAS highlighting SCWO’s potential for effective PFAS destruction.

Eglin AFB Munitions Investigation and Removal

Bay West conducts munitions investigation and removal at Eglin Air Force Base, allowing the site to be continuously utilized for training. Bay West collaborated with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and other state and federal agencies to provide military munitions support.

St. Louis River Area of Concern Remediation

The St. Louis River and Duluth/Superior Harbor have historically been polluted by industries like logging and papermaking. Bay West has been a key partner with local and state agencies in addressing comprehensive cleanup plan aimed at restoring the area.

Superior Plating Remediation and Oversight

The largest plating facility in the Midwest was closed due to soil and groundwater contamination. Bay West is pivotal in providing support and oversight for the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and its cleanup efforts.

Bioremediation

Harnessing Nature’s Power for Environmental Restoration with Bioremediation

Our expertise encompasses:

Recent Remediation Experience

PFAS Destruction Using Supercritical Water Oxidation

Eglin AFB Munitions Investigation and Removal

St. Louis River Area of Concern Remediation

Superior Plating Remediation and Oversight

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