BBU Project Experience

The following are some samples of just a few projects that have been performed by BBU Environmental Services.

The spring of 2009 BBU demolished a 1.5 million gallon tank that had caught fire.  The project consisted of removing and filtering the lead contaminated water from the surrounding dike.  The remaining crude oil inside the tank was then vacuumed out with vac-trucks.  The final phase was to demolish the standing tank, and remove the concrete floor from the tank.

The summer of 2009 BBU responded to an emergency call at a rail yard.   An Oil Water Separator (OWS) on the location released an unknown amount of oil into a nearby stream.  The plume from the release stretched nearly 2 miles.  With the correlation of BBU, Ohio EPA and the Region V federal EPA the release was stopped before reaching the Scioto River.  The release was cleaned up with the implementation of siphon dams, and vacuum trucks at each location.  Total amount of material recovered was 63,000 gallons.

Following the windstorm from hurricane IKE fall of 2008 BBU responded to 56 spills in 2 weeks for electric utilities.   All 56 spills were cleaned up to PCB standards; remediation of all the sites took place the following week.

 The fall of 2007 BBU responded to an emergency call for a high school.  A fueling truck that was filling the boiler for the school released fuel oil in the crawl space of the school.  BBU used vacuum trucks to remove the fuel from the surface of the crawl space.  Then the crawl space was flooded by pumping water from vacuum trucks.  This process brought more fuel to the surface for removal.  The crawl space was then sampled and found that fuel remained in the soil of the crawl space.  A Bioremediation technique has been implemented utilizing micro-organisms (BUGS) and has dropped the levels of fuel in most areas of the school to a non-detectable level.