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Energy and Utilities

From small operations to numerous expansive facilities, our team delivers environmental compliance solutions for water, wastewater, energy, and telecommunication clients.

Trusted Environmental Solutions

Our dedicated team offers a full range of services to support our utility clients, including:

  • Due diligence for facility expansion and on-going compliance
  • Site investigations and remediation
  • Industrial and construction stormwater compliance
  • Facility audits
  • Drinking water Lead in Copper Rule Revisions (LCRR) and per- and polyfluoroalkly substances (PFAS) compliance support
  • Water rights
  • Water well management services
  • Sea-level rise/vulnerability assessments 
  • Industrial hygiene services
  • Air quality permitting and compliance
  • Tank inspection, permitting, and reporting

We work with communities and operations at power plants, substations, gas facilities, and water and wastewater treatment plants, ensuring stakeholder needs are met while maintaining strict health and safety compliance.

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Water

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Wastewater

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Telecommunications

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Healthcare

Healthcare

We support clients with industrial hygiene, remediation, and waste stream management services.

We support clients with industrial hygiene, remediation, and waste stream management services.

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Transportation & Infrastructure

Transportation & Infrastructure

We support the following industries:

  • Rail operators
  • Marine transport
  • Trucking companies
  • Cargo Transportation

 

We support the following industries: Rail operators Marine transport Trucking companies Cargo Transportation  

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Metals

Metals

We support the following industries:

  • Automobile repair centers and scrap yards
  • Metals recycling
  • Battery recycling
  • Mining
  • Steel and ironworks manufacturing

 

We support the following industries: Automobile repair centers and scrap yards Metals recycling Battery recycling Mining Steel and ironworks manufacturing  

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Pharmaceutical & Life Sciences

Pharmaceutical & Life Sciences

We provide services for active facilities and legacy sites that includes auditing, permitting, hazardous materials and waste management, site characterization, and remediation.

We provide services for active facilities and legacy sites that includes auditing, permitting, hazardous materials and waste management, site characterization, and remediation.

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Chemical Manufacturing and Recycling

Chemical Manufacturing and Recycling

We support the following industries:

  • Chemical manufacturing
  • Wood products
  • Semiconductors
  • Electronics manufacturing
  • Construction materials manufacturing
  • Food processing
  • Aerospace products
  • Solar panels
  • Industrial tool manufacturing
  • Hazardous waste disposal & recycling

 

We support the following industries: Chemical manufacturing Wood products Semiconductors Electronics manufacturing Construction materials manufacturing Food processing Aerospace products Solar panels Industrial tool manufacturing Hazardous waste disposal & recycling  

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Petrochemical

Petrochemical

Our experts support both upstream and downstream operations and facilities with various services including emergency response support.

Our experts support both upstream and downstream operations and facilities with various services including emergency response support.

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Representative Projects

Clients turn to Terraphase for trusted expertise, strategic guidance, and impactful, high-value solutions.

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California Utility Equipment Hazardous Material Survey

Terraphase conducts bi-weekly asbestos-containing material (ACM) and lead-based paint (LBP) inspections for a California utility client’s decommissioned substation equipment. The

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City of San Mateo Wastewater Treatment Plant Expansion Construction Support

Terraphase was awarded an environmental consultant contract with the California City of San Mateo Department of Public Works for the

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Northern California Water/Wastewater Utility Compliance Services

Terraphase has supported a Northern California utility district through multiple contracts, providing a broad range of environmental and compliance services.

Lead Practitioners

Our experts are ready to assist. Connect with our senior practitioners for customized solutions to your project needs.

James Hay, LHG, CPG

James Hay, LHG, CPG

Executive Committee Member at Large, Principal Hydrogeologist
Michael Piechowski, LG, LHG

Michael Piechowski, LG, LHG

Principal Hydrogeologist
Arnab Chakrabarti, PE, PMP

Arnab Chakrabarti, PE, PMP

Director of Client Development, Principal Engineer
James P. Bryson, PG

James P. Bryson, PG

Senior Principal Geologist

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Christopher Alger, PG, CHG, CEG

Senior Principal Engineering Geologist

Christopher’s Profile

Christopher Alger, PG CHG, CEG, is a Principal Engineering Geologist at Terraphase and brings over 35 years of scientific investigation, design and consulting experience in a multidisciplinary problem-solving practice that spans contaminant hydrogeology and site remediation to geotechnical engineering for landslide and slope failure studies.

In his subsurface site characterization and remediation practice, Chris has developed creative solutions to accelerate remediation, regulatory closure, and redevelopment of impaired properties in California and throughout the United States.

Chris has designed and implemented a wide range of remediation technologies, including soil vapor extraction systems for volatile chemicals, in situ fixation injection for hexavalent chromium, in situ and ex situ bioremediation, air sparging, ozone injection, groundwater extraction and treatment, dewatering systems, and excavation programs.

Chris is routinely engaged to provide expert review and opinions in peer review and litigation projects for insurance and attorney clients involved with multi-party disputes nationwide. Chris continues to provide expert services for dry cleaner litigation and resolution, superfund defense, RCRA facility operations and closure, cost recovery, and CERCLA claims. His work in this capacity has included preparing declarations, expert reports, remedial cost estimates, depositions, and other expert witness services. Chris’s geotechnical engineering work has involved mapping of Landslides and rockfalls in the San Francisco Bay Area, Yosemite National Park, and Utah’s Wasatch Range. He has served as the engineering geologist responsible for pre-construction geotechnical investigations, oversight of client and third-party residential and commercial grading projects, and geologic hazard investigations.

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