BIOLOGICAL SERVICES
Dredge Permitting and Contaminated Sediment Support Services
From the homeowner wanting to dredge their personal dock to the large agency looking for programmatic sediment management support, Pi’s unique combination of capability and flexibility enables effective solutions.
Projects
An Environmental Constant
Pi provides permitting support for CEQA/NEPA, the 401/404 Clean Water Act, the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs), eelgrass and Caulerpa surveys, and National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) monitoring.
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SURVEYS
How we do it.
Unlike other firms in southern California, we maintain a variety of internal equipment to support investigations and surveys that range from standard grain size analysis to full suite toxicological analysis.
Experience
Our staff have leveraged their collective years of experience working on sediment projects and improved on the methods, accuracy, and costs associated with these types of projects regionally.
Effective Solutions
We routinely work with large engineering firms, local, state, and federal agencies, and private clients looking for consultation or support for their sediment related management concerns.
Consultation & Sediment Related Management Concerns
CEQA/NEPA
If your project is in the CEQA/NEPA planning stage, has an existing NPDES permit, or you are looking to characterize potential dredged material for suitability and disposal alternatives analysis,
Management
Pi Environmental can help you accomplish your management goals and help make the technically complicated understandable..
As a women-owned small business, Pi is equally comfortable as the project lead or as a trusted subcontractor.
Commonly Contracted Services
Dredged material characterization (TIER I, II, & III)
Outfall characterizations (NPDES)
Grab sampling (SQO Part I, PSEP)
Push core collections
Diver-collected core options
Receiving envelope sampling
TMDL special studies