| Lisa K. Phillips, CGWP, CP 84757 28th Street | Lawton, MI 49065 | Phone: 269-624-4211 | Fax: 269-624-1285 |
We are an environmental consulting firm located in southwest Michigan, providing service to a wide range of industries throughout the west Michigan area.
Phillips Environmental Consulting Services, Inc. has completed a diverse number of Phase I and II Environmental Site Assessments, conducted according to the ASTM Standard and brownfield redevelopment services, on behalf of developers and for numerous municipalities.
Additional services and areas of expertise provided by Phillips Environmental Consulting Services, Inc. include:
- Hydrogeologic investigations
- Risk-based corrective action evaluations
- Feasibility analyses
- Remedial action plans
- Operation and maintenance of remedial systems
- Site closure documentation
- Third party quality assurance/quality control project audits
- Environmental Site Assessments
- Environmental liability defense with regard to all appropriate inquiry and appropriate care requirements (including Baseline Environmental Assessments and Section 7a Compliance Analyses in the State of Michigan)
- Brownfield redevelopment support services
- Environmental regulatory compliance
- Expert witness testimony
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| Lisa K. Phillips, CGWP, CP 84757 28th Street | Lawton, MI 49065 | Phone: 269-624-4211 | Fax: 269-624-1285 |
Contaminant hydrogeology, hydrogeologic investigations, feasibility studies, remedial action plans, site closure documentation, UST closures and assessments, well installation and monitoring, water quality sampling, environmental site assessments, baseline environmental assessments, due care plans, brownfield redevelopment, remedial system design, operation and maintenance, risk-based corrective action procedures, environmental regulatory compliance, environmental program management, third-party quality control audits, expert testimony, environmental record reviews, and technical writing.
Extensive experience in Hydrogeologic/Remedial Investigations, Feasibility Studies, and Corrective Actions for industrial, commercial and municipal clients under various state and Federal regulations, including Michigan’s Part’s 201 and 213 of the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act, RCRA, and CERCLA, among others.
Sanitary landfill investigations, including management of groundwater monitoring programs, remedial investigations and the preparation and
implementation of remedial action plans.
Extensive experience in leaking underground storage tank investigations and remedial activities, including risk-based corrective action procedures and site-specific closures.
Design, maintenance and operation of groundwater, in-situ soil remediation and free product recovery systems, including the development and use of innovative technologies and the monitoring and documentation for associated site closures.
Extensive experience in real estate transactional support services such as ASTM environmental site assessments and transaction screen processes, baseline environmental assessments, and due care plans, including management of state and US EPA brownfield grant projects.
Experience in environmental regulatory compliance and in the development and assistance with client environmental management programs.
Experience in third-party quality assurance/quality control reviews of site investigation and remediation projects. Experienced in providing innovative and cost effective solutions to achieve site closures and other project objectives.
Experience in managing technical operations and in the development and implementation of technical protocol.
Extensive experience in project management and negotiations with regulatory agencies.
Experience as an expert witness.
Phillips Environmental
Lawton, Michigan
Hydrogeologist/President
Western Michigan University
Instructor, Department of Geosciences
Remediation Field Course
American Hydrogeology Corporation
Portage, Michigan
Senior Project Manager/Technical Quality Control Manager
Wilkins & Wheaton Environmental Services, Inc.
Kalamazoo, Michigan
Hydrogeologist/Project Manager
Berrien County Health Department
Benton Harbor, Michigan
Consultant
Western Michigan University
M.S., Earth Science
Western Michigan University
B.S., Earth Science and Environmental Studies
Magna Cum Laude
| Lisa K. Phillips, CGWP, CP 84757 28th Street | Lawton, MI 49065 | Phone: 269-624-4211 | Fax: 269-624-1285 |
Hydrogeologic InvestigationsWith over 24 years of experience in conducting hydrogeologic investigations at hundreds of sites, project management expertise has been attained at leaking underground storage tank sites, industrial-manufacturing facilities, and at landfills under a variety of State and Federal laws. As a Qualified Underground Storage Tank Consultant (QUSTC No. Z0366), Phillips Environmental Consulting Services Inc. is authorized to work on leaking underground storage tank projects in Michigan. State of the art and regulatory agency approved techniques are used to obtain reliable data for the evaluation of soil and groundwater quality, aquifer characteristics, contaminant migration, and the identification of potential risks and liabilities. These data can then be used to undertake action necessary to help minimize client liability.
Training has been completed through the American Society for Testing Material (ASTM) and Michigan-specific standards for the completion of risk-based corrective action evaluations. These evaluations are completed to identify the potential exposures that could result from a release. The information provided by such an assessment allows for a cost-effective and site-specific corrective action plan that targets the elimination of the potential exposure hazard(s). Numerous such assessments have been completed that have resulted in regulatory site closures.
Phillips Environmental Consulting Services, Inc. personnel are certified by the State of Michigan to operate treatment systems that use carbon adsorption, air stripping technologies, and wetlands, among others. In addition, experience is extensive in the operation and maintenance of soil vapor extraction systems, air sparge systems, dual-phase (liquid, vapor, and/or free product) extraction systems, and various types of free product recovery systems. Such experience has included the preparation of numerous permits and permit-exemption request for discharges of groundwater (treated or untreated) to surface water or for reinjection, and for air discharges to the atmosphere (controlled or uncontrolled). Successful operation of these treatment systems has resulted in the closure of numerous sites.
Experience in the aforementioned areas has resulted in the regulatory closure of many sites. Some closures have been the result of minor releases. Others have followed significant environmental remediation, including free product recovery. Still others have relied on innovative risk-based evaluations, calculation of site-specific cleanup criteria, and reliance upon institutional controls and alternate mechanisms approved by the State to eliminate potential hazards. Experience in various types of closure options gives the client assurance that the most feasible remedial option for the site will be selected and effectively carried out.
Phillips Environmental Consulting Services, Inc. has extensive experience in conducting third party QA/QC audits of environmental projects for industrial and municipal clients, legal professionals, other consultants, and the insurance industry. Common audit objectives include: the identification of project efficiencies to save in overall project costs and/or to reduce project timelines; the identification of potential liabilities so that they may be addressed before a problem occurs or a funding mechanism is no longer available; or to lend support in anticipation of litigation. Such audits can save significantly on project costs by identifying inefficiencies or by reducing potential liabilities.
Environmental real estate support services began at the industry level in the mid-1980’s with the inception of the federal “innocent landowner defense” to joint and several liability with respect to contaminated properties. Active in the environmental business at that time, a need arose to meet a client’s needs for such services in the evaluation of site assessment requirements and the assimilation of related information was attained.
Phillips Environmental Consulting Services, Inc. has the qualifications and experience to satisfy the requirements for conducting Phase I and II Environmental Site Assessments in accordance with the newest ASTM Standard Practice E 1527-05. Also included are Baseline Environmental Assessments (BEAs) and related Section 7a Compliance Analyses, as required by Part 201 of Michigan’s Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act (NREPA) as a defense against liability.
Brownfield consulting services address the resolution of impediments which affect the successful redevelopment of brownfield properties. Technical support services are provided to assist a developer or local unit of government with negotiations related to the purchase agreement, development agreement and other related matters; feasibility and risk assessments, which addresses potential incremental site preparation costs, funding solutions and projections based on potential environmental risks; procurement of MDNRE funding and/or Brownfield Redevelopment Grants; procure Brownfield Redevelopment Authority funding; procure Michigan Business Tax Credit Preauthorization; and related project management and clerical support for such projects. Phillips Environmental Consulting Services has expertise in all of these areas and has provided the technical support services necessary to complete many successful redevelopment projects for various developers and municipalities within the State of Michigan.
Phillips Environmental Consulting Services, Inc. has assisted many clients in understanding and complying with a wide variety of environmental compliance issues under State and Federal programs. Regulatory compliance consultations include solid and hazardous waste generation, transportation, treatment, storage and disposal; underground and aboveground storage tanks; wastewater and stormwater discharges; landfill monitoring, closure, and corrective action programs; record keeping; and environmental permitting.
The technical expertise of an environmental professional can benefit clients and other consultants when disputes or litigation present the need for an expert opinion or technical advocate. I have served as an expert witness in several such instances.
| Lisa K. Phillips, CGWP, CP 84757 28th Street | Lawton, MI 49065 | Phone: 269-624-4211 | Fax: 269-624-1285 |
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