Long Project Complete

For the past 18 months I have been working on a remediation project in Waukegan, Illinois. It has been long hours and a lot of time away from home, but it is now complete! I am looking forward to taking some time off and spending a lot more time with Diana and Cassie!

The site before construction. Pretty desolate, but it was below ground in the soil where there was the worst contamination.

Overview of the site along Lake Michigan.

Another view of the site. Lots of equipment working together to get the job done.

Some of the early mornings had nice sun rises.

There were also many late nights.

Over 5,500 overlapping soil-mixed columns were constructed to solidify the contaminated soil in place.

Hundreds of samples were collected to ensure the construction was properly completed. That's me in the bottom corner.

We also had to work through the third coldest and snowiest winter on record. 

In the end, everything was successfully completed and the 300,000 cubic yards of soil on 9 acres of land is now cleaned.

The crew from all over the country that got the work done. Some interesting characters.