Compliance and Solid Waste

  • Regulatory Reporting
  • Landfill Gas Management
  • Landfill Gas to Energy
  • Leachate Management
  • Beneficial Re-Use of Landfills
  • Solid Waste Management Plans
  • Wastewater Treatment Design
  • RCRA Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facilities (TSDFs) Permitting
  • Post-Closure Monitoring
  • Post-Closure Operation & Maintenance
  • Air Quality
  • Spill Prevention Planning
  • Environmental Health and Safety
  • Non-Sanity Wastewater
  • ISO 14001 Compliance Assistance
  • Homeland Security Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards

Compliance Services

Altamont provides comprehensive permitting and compliance monitoring services related to air quality, stormwater quality, spill prevention, and erosion control. These specific services dovetail nicely with our other service lines such as assessment and remediation and environmental engineering.

Spill Prevention Planning and Permitting

Compliance assessments
Spill prevention, control, and countermeasures plans
Secondary containment design
Spill response training
Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans and Compliance Monitoring

Plan preparation
Permit applications
Compliance sampling
Reporting
Stormwater pollution prevention training
Erosion and Sediment Control

Grading plans
Erosion and sediment control plans
Permit applications
Construction observation
ISO 14001 Compliance Assistance

Internal Audits
Regulatory Updates
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act

Emergency Planning and Notification
Tier II Inventory Reporting
Toxic Release Inventory Reporting
Homealand Security Chemical Facility Ant-Terrorism Standards
RCRA TSDF Permitting

Initial Site Permitting
Permit Renewal Applications
Air Quality

Permit applicability determinations
Air quality discharge permit applications
NESHAP compliance assistance
Risk management plans

Solid Waste Services

This includes engineering, hydrogeology, remediation, and other specialized services for municipal and industrial landfills. Our experience base includes older, closed facilities, as well as active industrial, construction and demolition debris, and Subtitle D landfills. Altamont currently monitors groundwater, surface water, and/or landfill gas at 27 privately and publicly owned landfills and monitors and maintains 10 landfill cap systems. Our understanding of the business aspects of solid waste management, along with our technical expertise, allows us to reduce our clients’ costs related to the management of solid waste. Altamont’s comprehensive solid waste management consulting services include

  • Regulatory compliance planning and response
  • Groundwater sampling, analysis, and reporting
  • Landfill gas monitoring
  • Leachate monitoring
  • Design and permitting
  • Technical analyses and permit applications
  • Erosion and sediment control measures
  • Stormwater run-on and run-off control
  • Landfill closure design and construction administration
  • Operations and planning
  • Groundwater and landfill gas remediation system operation and maintenance
  • Operation plans
  • Solid waste planning (e.g. Ten-Year Plans)
  • Construction management
  • Contract negotiation and bid administration
  • Financial analysis and budget administration
  • Recycling and waste minimization
  • Compliance monitoring and reporting

Compliance and Solid Waste Example Projects

  • Beneficial Reuse of Closed Landfills
  • Solid Waste Management, Planning, and Environmental Monitoring
  • Landfill Groundwater and Surface Water Monitoring and Reporting
  • Waste-to-Energy and Beneficial Use of Landfill Gas
  • Notice of Violation Response for Damaged Slopes