PFAS

We recognize our clients’ need to focus on their core operations and business while balancing the risk of emerging contaminants.

If mitigation measures become essential, our technical staff are here to assess the most viable treatment approach through bench and pilot scale studies to guide full-scale operations.

We value building trust with our clients, maintaining lasting partnerships, and providing solutions that minimize risks at the heart of our approach.

We develop and implement practical, proven, cost-effective and tailored PFAS responses across nine core areas:

• Expert witness, client advocacy and business advisory support
• Consumer product stewardship and risk reduction
• Pollution prevention and mitigation
• Site investigation and waste management
• PFAS release and facility risk management
• Soil and groundwater assessment and remediation
• Human health and ecological risk assessment
• Drinking water treatment wastewater and biosolids solutions
• Firefighting system assessment, design/engineering and AFFF (Aqueous Film-Forming Foam) replacement and disposal

Comprehensive risk mitigation

• Water / Wastewater treatment and Biosolids
  Adaptive planning, characterization, innovative treatment design, biosolids management, PFAS water and wastewater treatment technologies


• Fire protection engineering
  Define fire system requirements and AFFF replacement alternatives


• Treatment / Remediation Action
  Plans, feasibility studies, cost estimates and management strategies, containment, treatment system design and construction, AFFF emergency response, design and construction supervision of engineered repositories


• Compliance
  Product stewardship, air permitting, stakeholder engagement, fire protection, redesign, AFFF replacement


• Assessment
  Site characterization, product assessment, human health/ecological risk assessment


• Waste management
  AFFF/PFAS waste management and disposal, excess construction, soil management, AFFF environmental management advice, waste reduction and risk evaluations


• Advisory
  Due diligence, portfolio liability assessments, supply chain analyses, strategic planning, community stakeholder engagement, risk communications, client advisory and risk management including product stewardship


• Digital
  Data management, data visualization, data analytics and data mining

It's important to remember that regulations related to PFAS compounds are emerging and incomplete, which can cause uncertainty, and liabilities related to PFAS chemicals are being defined through litigation. By understanding these dynamic and interconnected processes, GHD ensures effective risk management across facilities, products, and industries.