DUNCKLEE & DUNHAM


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Duncklee & Dunham was incorporated in 1996 to offer the highest quality and most responsive environmental services possible.  Our firm is a small business enterprise, licensed in North Carolina as a professional geologic corporation with projects across the United States.  Based in Cary, North Carolina, the firm offers a team of highly experienced professionals together forming a group that takes great pride in serving the needs of our clients using both traditional and innovative methods. 

Duncklee & Dunham is an NCDENR Inactive Hazardous Sites Branch—Superfund Section approved Registered Environmental Consultant (REC) with three Registered Site Managers (RSMs).  As an REC, Duncklee & Dunham is certified by DENR to prepare and implement Voluntary Cleanup Contracts.  Each of our three RSMs has over 20 individual years of environmental consulting experience.

Our primary service categories, which are described in more detail in the following section, are as follows:

·       Soil and Ground Water Assessments, including the use of Innovative Assessment Methods, for all State and Federal Regulations such as RCRA, CERCLA, State Lead Voluntary and UST Programs

·     Brownfields Inventory and Assessment Services for Public and Private Clients

·       Design of Soil and Ground Water Remediation Systems including the use of Underground Injection, In-Situ Chemical Oxidation, and Other Innovative  Systems

·        Phase I and II Environmental Site Assessments using the AAI Rule and ASTM Standard

·        Regulatory Auditing, Permitting, and Compliance Issues for all Environmental Media, Federal, and State Regulations

·         Emergency Response follow up Site Assessments

·         Natural Attenuation Corrective Action Plans

·         Community Relations and Public Awareness Issues

·         Landfill Ground Water Assessment Services

·         Expert Witness Testimony and Litigation Support

Duncklee & Dunham believes the use and further development of innovative assessment and remediation technologies is a key to more cost effective remedial solutions.  The use of innovative methods along with traditional methods is helping us overcome one of the biggest challenges we face in site remediation—adequate assessment to overcome site media and plume heterogeneity.  With the shape of the contaminant plume and soil matrix better defined, we are able to effectively target innovative remedial methods.

GIS methods are being utilized by Duncklee & Dunham to more efficiently perform Brownfields Inventories for municipalities that have been awarded US EPA Brownfields Grants.

Furthermore, the varied nature of our staff’s experience brings a higher level of sophistication to our scope of services.  This varied experience is evidenced by our staff having served in the following roles:

·              Regulator in the NC DENR Brownfields Program

·               Private Brownfields Developer

·               Regulator in the NC DENR Underground Injection Program

·               Geology Professor at East Carolina University

·               Regulator in the NC DENR Hazardous Waste Branch

·               Hydrogeologist in the Mining Industry

·               Chemist with Private Analytical Laboratory

Over half of our professional staff has over 15 years of individual experience in the environmental field.   We have three senior staff members with over 20 years of individual environmental experience and one staff member with 35.   All of our letters and reports are peer reviewed by our senior staff, further utilizing our experience on our clients behalf.

The level of expertise of our senior staff is evidenced by their in-house use by some of the world’s leading companies based in the Research Triangle,/Raleigh, North Carolina area.  Duncklee & Dunham currently has senior staff level professionals working in-house at one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies and another at the world’s largest private brownfields development firm.

Additional unique qualities of our firm include the number of long-term clients we serve and the high percentage of repeat business awarded.  We are currently serving three clients who have been under contract with our staff members since the 1980’s. 

 

 

 
 
 
 
Latest News at Duncklee & Dunham
 

January  2010

Dave Duncklee remains active in the Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists (AEG), currently serving as treasurer on the Carolinas Section board, as short course committee chair on the AEG Charleston 2010 national meeting, and as co-chair of the national AEG continuing education committee. Dave has also recently been approved by the Interstate Training and Regulatory Council (ITRC) to participate in the newly formed Environmental Molecular Diagnostics team.

November  2009

Duncklee & Dunham's Jay Bennett and Bryson Trexler are using innovative techniques to develop site specific soil clean-up levels and develop a ground water variance for site metals restoration. The site is under the REC program and currently being managed on a fast track basis to accommodate expedited clean-up of soil and groundwater once plant modifications are made.

Duncklee & Dunham is preparing to implement full scale injection plan involving sodium persulfate into shallow groundwater under and adjacent to a former manufacturing building. A corrective action plan and an injection permit were submitted and approved under the Ga DEP HIS program.

November  2009

Congratulations to Jayson Kilcoyne on his promotion to Project Environmental Scientist II. His efforts are currently concentrating on the assessment and remediation of agrichemical and petroleum UST projects.

October  2009

In partnership with a local law firm, Duncklee & Dunham has recently provided pro bono professional assistance to Hope Elementary Charter School in Raleigh, North Carolina. Work was conducted to assess and dispose approximately three tons of soil, potentially contaminated with lead-based paint, from the school property. The closure report was submitted to the school in October 2009.

April  2009

Duncklee & Dunham is performing our third GIS brownfield inventory project for a local NC municipality. This project is being performed for several hundred parcels and will be completed in approximately five weeks time start to finish.

March 2009

Duncklee & Dunham has completed a 1,700 parcel GIS brownfields inventory for a local NC municipality. Muti-parcel Phase I ESAs are currently being performed under this US EPA brownfields grant funded project. To our knowledge, this is the second GIS brownfields inventory completed in NC, both of which have been performed by the firm. Dr. Trexler is currently working with US EPA Region 4 to finalize a QAPP so that phase II assessment tasks can be implemented using the brownfield grant funds.

February 2009

In a joint effort with Rodak Engineering, Duncklee & Dunham is in the process of performing over one hundred SPCC plans across the US. Duncklee & Dunham has prepared over 900 spill plans across the US over the past ten years.

December  2008
 
Cary Office - Office renovations are complete and the Duncklee & Dunham office is back to a full house. Feel free to stop by and take a look. See the Contact page for a before and after photo!


 


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    511 Keisler Drive - Suite 102
    Cary, NC 27518
    (919) 858-9898
   
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