Environmental Consulting
Waste Management
As waste management consultants, we help you take a solid-waste project from concept to completion — site selection, landfill engineering and design, permitting, and construction. We offer complete environmental and civil engineering, geologic services, environmental consulting, and construction management under one roof.
Solid waste services
Complete solid-waste consulting
Our solid waste management consultant services include:
- Landfill location & assessment studies
- Local planning & zoning assistance and solid waste planning
- Professional land surveying and airspace / life-of-landfill calculations
- Waste recycling support services
- Construction quality assurance
- Air quality permitting
- Leachate management, treatment, and permitting
- Groundwater monitoring
- Expansion cells & landfill phasing
- Closure plans & cost estimates
Landfill design & permitting Landfill design & permitting
Designed to expand as you grow
We design Class 1 and Class 2 rubbish sites and Subtitle D municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills. Our engineers and geologists optimize your design to balance initial operating costs against future expansion — with modular designs that allow cost-effective vertical or horizontal expansion.
Selecting a site with the right balance of size, zoning, accessibility, and environmental suitability reduces future costs and problems, and we guide clients through zoning changes and special-use exceptions when local rules haven't anticipated a solid-waste facility.
Compliance & monitoring Compliance & monitoring
Air, leachate, and groundwater — handled
Title V air permitting now applies to many MSW landfills, and greenhouse-gas rules are being added to the mix — we help you sort out what's required and secure it. Our team evaluates leachate treatment and discharge options, even for hard-to-treat constituents like soluble metals, salts, and ammonia.
With experienced hydrogeologists on staff, we design groundwater monitoring systems, handle the sampling, and produce the reports regulators require. We also prepare the closure plans, cost estimates, and financial-assurance mechanisms for nonhazardous and hazardous (RCRA) waste landfills.
Planning a landfill or waste facility?
From siting and permitting to construction and closure, EMS can take it end to end.