Unlike many of
our competitors which develop their own protocols or follow no set
standards, BlackRock follows the standard procedures developed by
the American Society for Testing and Materials
(ASTM). By utilizing
ASTM’s industry-accepted standards, BlackRock can ensure clientele
that our work is valid and is legally defendable. The following
provides a partial list of some of the more common ASTM standard
procedures utilized by BlackRock:
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E1689-95 Standard Guide for Developing Conceptual Site Models for
Contaminated Sites
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E1739-95e1 Standard Guide for Risk-Based Corrective Action Applied
at Petroleum Release Sites
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E1943-98 Standard Guide for Remediation of Ground Water by Natural
Attenuation at Petroleum Release Sites
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D2487-00 Standard Classification of Soils for Engineering Purposes
(Unified Soil Classification System)
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D5782-95(2000) Standard Guide for Use of Direct Air-Rotary Drilling
for Geoenvironmental Exploration and the Installation of Subsurface
Water-Quality Monitoring Devices
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D5783-95(2000) Standard Guide for Use of Direct Rotary Drilling with
Water-Based Drilling Fluid for Geoenvironmental Exploration and the
Installation of Subsurface Water-Quality Monitoring Devices
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D5784-95(2000) Standard Guide for Use of Hollow-Stem Augers for
Geoenvironmental Exploration and the Installation of Subsurface
Water-Quality Monitoring Devices
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D5872-95(2000) Standard Guide for Use of Casing Advancement Drilling
Methods for Geoenvironmental Exploration and Installation of
Subsurface Water-Quality Monitoring Devices
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D6151-97 Standard Practice for Using Hollow-Stem Augers for
Geotechnical Exploration and Soil Sampling
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D6282-98 Standard Guide for Direct Push Soil Sampling for
Environmental Site Characterizations
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D6001-96e1 Standard Guide for Direct-Push Water Sampling for
Geoenvironmental Investigations
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D6169-98 Standard Guide for Selection of Soil and Rock Sampling
Devices Used With Drill Rigs for Environmental Investigations
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D1452-80(2000) Standard Practice for Soil Investigation and Sampling
by Auger Borings
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D1586-99 Standard Test Method for Penetration Test and Split-Barrel
Sampling of Soils
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D4220-95(2000) Standard Practices for Preserving and Transporting
Soil Samples
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D4840-99 Standard Guide for Sampling Chain-of-Custody Procedures
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D5787-95(2000) Standard Practice for Monitoring Well Protection
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D5521-94e1 Standard Guide for Development of Ground-Water Monitoring
Wells in Granular Aquifers
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D4750-87(2001) Standard Test Method for Determining Subsurface
Liquid Levels in a Borehole or Monitoring Well (Observation Well)
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D5088-90 Standard Practice for Decontamination of Field Equipment
Used at Nonradioactive Waste Sites
In short, by
combining the best available technologies, positive relationships
with regulatory agencies and an unyielding desire to satisfy our
clients, BlackRock ranks among the best in Pennsylvania to meet the
dynamic challenges of environmental compliance.
