Tim McCormack Joins
KTA
2-1-10 - Seattle, WA
KTA is excited to
announce that Tim McCormack has joined KTA. This is a tremendous
addition to our firm and will substantially increase our expertise
with large scale environmental cleanups. Tim is a registered
professional geologist and licensed hydrogeologist with 20 years of
hydrogeologic, remediation, environmental engineering, and
project/program management experience throughout the United States.
Tim has managed large-scale remediation, feasibility study, and
compliance programs for rail yards, aerospace companies, manufacturing
and industrial facilities, landfills, and large oil companies. He has
extensive experience with providing cost-effective alternatives,
managing multi-disciplinary teams, strategic planning, decision
analysis, and regulatory interaction and negotiation. He has managed
and participated in contract support, feasibility studies, and
remedial investigations at Pacific Northwest industrial Superfund
sites. He has managed the cleanup of Brownfield redevelopment projects
and has successfully complied with and closed sites
under MTCA regulations. He is well
versed with regulatory and compliance requirements, including RCRA,
CERCLA, and numerous state regulatory programs. Tim has managed and
completed projects involving geologic and hydrogeologic site
characterization, ground water flow system analysis, subsurface
contamination assessments, well field design, and evaluation and
design of remedial actions. In addition, he has evaluated and provided
remedial alternatives for contaminated soil, ground and waste water,
and sediments. Don't hesitate to call Tim if you have any
questions regarding these matter. He can be reached at
206.447.1450 or
TMcCormack@KTAinc.net.
KTA Providing Petroleum Tank Services at Fort Lewis
12-1-09 - Olympia, WA
KTA has been retained to assess the compliance of over 1,500 tanks at
Fort
Lewis, which is just south of
Tacoma, WA. These tanks include a variety of petroleum products and
range from 100 to over 1,000,000 gallons. We anticipate that this
effort will be followed up in the Spring with an update of the
Integrated Contingency Plan, which includes a Facility Response Plan
and Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure Plan. KTA originally
developed the Integrated Contingency Plan in 2004. It was submitted
to EPA and received approval with no comments! As always, KTA really
enjoys working with the great people at Fort Lewis.
KTA Provides Multimedia Environmental Compliance Support for Metals
Processing Company with Operations in Seattle, Portland and California
12-1-09 - Seattle, WA
KTA has been retained to provide a variety of environmental compliance
support for a metals processing company. The support is being
provided at their facilities in Washington, Oregon and California.
The support involves several Federal and implementing State regulatory
programs including: (1) RCRA hazardous waste management, (2) EPCRA
reporting, (3) SPCC Planning and (4) CAA air permitting.
KTA Continues to Support Utility with Large Power Product Facilities
in Northern Washington
11-1-09 - Seattle, WA
KTA has completed our annual facility response plan support for one of
the largest utilities in the Northwest. Our support involves updating
the plans and conducting training for two backup power stations that
both include over 1,000,000 gallons of petroleum. KTA has provided
this support for the past 5 years.
KTA Developing More Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure (SPCC)
Plans for Utilities and Industrial Facilities.
11-1-09 - Portland, OR
KTA has recently completed a number of SPCC Plans for industrial and
power
production facilities in western United States. We are also preparing
to develop several more SPCC Plans for other power production
facilities in other parts of the United States. KTA uses an SPCC Plan
template that we developed several years ago. The template meets all
US EPA requirements and includes a management system to ensure
compliance over the long term. The management plan is tailored to
meet the company specific operational procedures.
KTA Continues to Support Stormwater Matters
throughout the Northwest
9-1-09
- Seattle, WA KTA is currently supporting 5 stormwater matters in
Washington and Oregon. The efforts involve implementing compliance systems
for industrial facilities and developing stormwater plans and monitoring systems
for the Puget Sound Naval Air Station. For the industrial facilities, KTA
develops Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans and develops/implements Best
Management Practices. This support is currently being provided to
facilities attempting to enhance their compliance programs as well as facilities
being sued under the Clean Water Act citizen suit provision.
KTA Retained to Support the Development of Solar
Power Production Facilities throughout the United States
8-1-09 - Seattle, WA KTA has been
retained by a confidential International
Energy Development
Company to support the development of Solar
Power Production facilities throughout he
United States.
KTA's expertise and
reputation in the Wind Power arena resulted in our selection for these new
matters. KTA is excited about this new opportunity. We are thrilled
to have the opportunity to support matters so important to our country.
KTA Celebrates 8 Years of Operations
5-1-09 -
Seattle, WA KTA began it's 9th year of operation on April
21, 2009. Ken Taylor of KTA says, "I can't believe it has been
8
years since I started KTA in our home's dining room.... I guess time
flies when you are having fun." Since then KTA has opened
offices in Seattle, Olympia, Portland, Boise, and Denver, added many
outstanding employees and supported over 100 clients with a variety of
challenging and interesting environmental matters. According to
Ken, "When I started KTA I had three goals: 1.) to provide very
high quality environmental services at a reasonable price, 2.) to
conduct activities in manner that our clients, our employees and
our teaming partners not only thought of KTA as a ethical and
technically sound organization, but were able to develop
friendships based on trust and respect with KTA and 3.) to support some very
interesting projects. I am amazed to the degree we have been
able to accomplish these goals. During a recent government
contract procurement, we were asked to have at least three letters
sent directly from our clients to the government describing our past
performance and cost-effectiveness (this was intended to allow for
honest feedback that KTA would not otherwise see). To drive home
the point regarding our past performance, KTA asked 15 of our clients
to submit such letters. All 15 of clients voluntarily submitted
letters and we later found out that every one of the letters indicated we
had outstanding past performance. This made me so proud of our
company, our employees and our teaming partners. It also gave me
great appreciation for our clients, whom I consider to be friends."
"Regarding being able to do interesting
work.... we have been able to support an incredible array of projects
ranging from: (1) leading the cleanup efforts at military, government and
corporate NPL sites to (2) day-to-day environmental support we provide
to hospitals, one of country's largest retailers, the world's largest
parcel shipment company and the world's 2nd largest wood products
company to (3) developing Environmental Assessment documents for
International Wind and Solar Energy Development Companies. We
have been amazed and so impressed as we meet people
and conduct environmental projects on potential wind and solar power
production sites
spread around the United States. We have been surprised when we
recovered a 100 year old shoe, 50 feet beneath the city of Seattle
shoreline with a drill rig. We smiled when performing a
historical environmental investigation for a property that included Jimi Hendrix's original home. What a job. We sure
appreciate all our clients and friends and look forward to more years
of being challenged, amazed, surprised and yes, to continue smiling!"
KTA Continues to Develop Environmental Studies for
Wind Power Sites Throughout the United States
5-1-09
- Denver, CO
KTA continues to enjoy the
opportunity to provide environmental support services for
a confidential client who has and is developing new wind power
projects throughout the United
States. KTA has provided support for several large projects in
OR, WA, CA, AZ, MT, WY, CO, ILL, IN, OH and NY. KTA's efforts are led by
Ken Taylor from our Seattle office, Terri Raudenbush
from our Boise office, Lenora Westbrook from our Olympia office, and
Marv Lewallen of our Portland office. KTA enjoys developing the various environmental studies as
well as working with our client's outstanding project
managers on this exciting alternative energy resource.
KTA Continues Support of National Retail
Organization
4-1-09 -
Seattle, WA
KTA continues to lead
environmental consulting services for a national retail organization.
Our support covers a wide range of environmental matters.
Support is provided for a geographic area that expands throughout the
United States. KTA's expertise in providing tailored
environmental solutions for our clients is key to the support provided
to this highly respected organization.
KTA Completes Environmental Investigation at Former Naval
Facilities
3-5-09 -
Portland, OR
KTA recently completed
investigations for potential environmental contamination at a former
Naval Radar facility in Northern
Washington and a Naval Air
Station on the Oregon Coast. Both investigations involved
collection and evaluation of potential groundwater contamination.
In both cases, environmental impacts from the former operations were
determined to be very minimal. The Naval Air Station is a
particularly interesting
Site as it was the former Blimp Storage Facility for the Pacific
during World War II.
