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Confidential Site

Location: Florida

Client: National homebuilder (confidential client) / Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed, P.A.
Need: Contamination assessment and remediation activities were performed by a large, Florida-based environmental consulting firm at a former trap and skeet shooting range. Client required litigation support and expert witness services to support a damages claim against the consultant.
Scope: The claim against the consultant included damages for:
  • Incomplete assessment of site contaminants.
  • Installation and operation of multiple, ineffective remediation systems.
  • Carrying costs for vertical construction based on a flawed projection of site remediation time frame.
  • Costs associated with retaining additional environmental consulting services and the re-creation of data.
Consultant/defendant was unaware that arsenic and PAHs - in addition to lead and other contaminants - are typically found at trap and skeet shooting ranges, and therefore failed to perform adequate testing. Additionally, consultant installed two dewatering/pump-and-treat systems, ostensibly to remediate arsenic, without full plume delineation. It wasn't until after shutdown of the second system that additional plume delineation was performed, indicating that pump-and-treat would likely never have resulted in site-wide groundwater quality restoration. HSA Golden's project-specific activities included:
  • Review available project contracts, field notes, laboratory data, documents, correspondence, and depositions.
  • Provide guidance regarding standard of care.
  • Prepare summary reports.
  • Provide deposition testimony.
  • Expert services successfully supported client's/plaintiff's claim against the consultant.
  • Claim settled for significant (undisclosed) amount immediately prior to commencement of arbitration proceedings.
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