We are the premier service provider for contaminated site investigation and cleanup on the west coast. Since our founding in 1998 we have been engaged on over 1,500 separate sites to characterize and remediate hazardous substances in soil gas, soil, groundwater, surface water, and sediments.
Farallon’s experience on contaminated sites includes characterization, feasibility testing, and remediation of complex commercial and industrial sites, historical landfills, and petroleum releases.
Our team has successfully completed Remedial Investigations at numerous commercial, industrial, Brownfield, and agricultural properties to characterize the extent and magnitude of contamination to various media. These include impacts to...
Vapor intrusion is rapidly becoming a key issue of concern for owners and prospective buyers of commercial and industrial properties – especially those with historical dry cleaning operations. The effect of changing regulatory...
Regulatory agencies often require studies, which are a useful first step in the design process. We conduct Feasibility Studies to evaluate the comparative effectiveness, practicality, timeliness, and costs for potential remedial...
We produce scientifically defensible outputs to assist attorneys, insurance companies, and industrial and commercial clients in better understanding their potential liability with upland and water facilities.
To help our clients meet their project goals, we put our regulatory expertise to work to develop and implement practical, strategic solutions to a wide variety of local, state, and federal environmental regulatory issues. We are proud of...
We are among the leading firms in Washington State working with several parties to evaluate and ultimately remediate PFAS releases at multiple locations.
We have specialized expertise in designing sediment investigations where sediments have been impacted by a wide range of contaminants including metals, refined petroleum compounds, polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, pesticides, and...
Our Federal Aviation Administration-licensed pilots capture high-resolution aerial imagery, which we use to monitor environmental construction activities and streambed restoration work. By incorporating a drone into data collection, we...
Farallon has been very successful in helping our clients win large grants for investigation and cleanup, apply for over $2M in energy grants, and administer municipal water and wastewater grants throughout our west coast service area....
Farallon’s client had been in negotiations with the City of Oakland to redevelop a portion of the Former Oakland Army Base from vacant land into an economically viable commercial property for multiple...
When multiple attempts to treat recalcitrant contaminants with conventional technologies failed, Farallon proposed using surfactant injection to increase mobility and recoverability of light nonaqueous-phase...
To delineate the extent of the contaminated soil and groundwater, Farallon initially completed a subsurface investigation. Farallon then conducted a remedial alternative and cost-benefit analysis feasibility...
Farallon has been leading an investigation to evaluate releases of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the Lower Issaquah Valley in Washington State. Following initial detections of...
Farallon was retained by a property owner to install the patented Farallon VOC Monitoring Probe and conduct sampling at a dry cleaning facility in a retail shopping center. Because of the potential risk of...
The Phase I ESA identified extensive petroleum staining on the unpaved surface and in the vicinity of a truck wash pad on the property. Farallon sampled and analyzed the extent of petroleum staining observed...
A client’s former maintenance and fueling operations resulted in petroleum hydrocarbon contamination beneath a historic school building. Farallon evaluated various remediation approaches and, after...
Farallon successfully completed the cleanup of a pesticide-contaminated site in a residential area of Seattle. The property had been used to store and distribute pesticides, including DDT, chlordane, and...
Over the past 20 years we have developed a top-tier team of technical professionals including experts in contaminant fate and transport characterization, modeling, and remediation engineering who have successfully developed and implemented cost-effective approaches for remediation and cleanup. Today, we employ a premier team of leading consulting experts in the industry for characterization and cleanup of releases associated with chlorinated solvents, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, petroleum hydrocarbons, and landfill gas mitigation.
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