Detailed Documentation

Our documentation is detailed, thorough and stands up to scrutiny.

It is a common thought that if you have a pollutant spilled into the environment all you are required to do is have an emergency response team, attend the site to contain it, clean it and walk away.

Although this sounds sufficient - it is not.

A significant initiative many people forget to do is to file a remediation report with the proper authorities. This report is the backbone of the remedial work. Without this report the regulatory authorities really have no reason to believe that a clean-up has been completed to proper standards. Sure they may know that a response team was on site working but has the site been proven clean scientifically? If it is scientifically sound it means there has been proper samples obtained from the completed remedial work to prove that the impacted material has been sufficiently removed.

Without this scientific report proving that the pollutant that was spilled into the environment, there is no paper trail proving it was cleaned. The scientific reporting ensures that the regulatory agency, MOE in Ontario, knows exactly what was done at the site to prevent, eliminate and ameliorate the adverse effect and to restore the natural environment. This report also states the concentrations remaining at the loss location. The concentrations are determined by the confirmatory samples retrieved and submitted to an independent laboratory. Basically this report tells the story from start to finish explaining exactly what remedial measures were taken and what the results of the remedial work were.

By ensuring that proper remedial work has been completed at the loss location and the regulatory agency has had the remediation report filed with them many consequences can be eliminated.