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Brownfields Assessment and CleanupGeolocation: 37.1512, -88.732

The shell of the former Laidlaw facility, a former industrial supplier to the dry cleaning industry, is highly visible from the main route through downtown Metropolis. A cluster of decaying, abandoned buildings behind a chain-link and barbed wire fence, the site detracted from the beauty of the adjoining Fort Massac State Park and impacts the quality of life for the low-income, multi-family housing across the street. Since 2005, Terracon has helped the city obtain funding to address the site, and is currently completing an innovative cleanup of soil and groundwater contaminated with…

I-64/Highway 40 ProjectGeolocation: 38.647, -90.225

Concerns along I-64 and I-170 related to neighborhood impacts, safety and security, air quality and noise, resulted in the recommendations to reconstruct I-64, along with proposed means of improving specific interchanges along the route. In July 2005, the new I-64 project received funding of $535 million and Terracon was selected to provide geotechnical design services for the project. Due to the large-scale nature of this project, challenges included performing field exploration work at night to minimize disruption to existing traffic patterns, numerous existing underground utilities,…

Pike County Wind ProjectGeolocation: 39.5662, -90.8294

Affinity Wind, LLC, developed a 30-36 MW initial phase utility scale generation facility in Pike County, Ill. Terracon provided expedited consultation services relating to acoustic monitoring and mist netting of bat species and avian point count surveys on the approximate 2,000-acre Pike County Wind project. Construction included wind-powered generators, tubular supporting towers, foundations, crane pads, access roads, underground and overhead electric collection systems, a collector substation, operations and maintenance building, and an electrical interconnection substation.