As industry has addressed many of the source areas of contamination, focus has moved downstream. As a company born in the Gulf Coast, we have a great deal of experience working in soft, wet soil conditions in, and around, bodies of water. RECON has substantial experience in remediation of surface waters including streams, rivers, lakes, ponds, bayous, and bays. Specific techniques involve stream diversion, cofferdam installation, mechanical dredging, sediment solidification, stabilization, dewatering, water treatment, and wetlands mitigation. Specialized equipment and techniques include marsh buggy excavators, crane mats, sheet piling, silt and turbidity curtains, temporary dikes, and bridges.
RECON performed emergency actions at this 38-acre coastal property in Southern California. The site contained 750,000 cubic yards of waste within several lagoons. Heavy rains produced stress cracks and leakage in the side berms supporting the waste.

GT Omniport, a multimodal facility located in Port Arthur, Texas, is an industrial park and liquids terminal offering rail, truck, barge, pipeline and deepwater ship transloading services. The environmental remediation and civil service construction project included soil preparation, demolishing the concrete and steel structures, clearing, grubbing, crushing concrete, beneficial reuse of of crushed concrete, and soil stabilization using RECON’s patented blend of reagents.