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Bhate has over 18 years of experience and sustained excellent performance for public and private sector customers. Bhate’s clients include the Army, Air Force, Navy, NASA, USPS, industrial manufacturing companies, utility companies, development companies, and state and local government agencies. Responsiveness and technical distinction are the foundation of our business. Key factors for our success include:

  • Bhate is a single-source engineering, science, and construction consultant. Having worked in 48 states and 14 countries/territories, Bhate has demonstrated our ability to provide consulting services under a wide range of site conditions and regulatory environments, simultanelously.
  • Bhate is responsive. In our business, responsiveness is a discriminator. Bhate has developed the technical and managerial capability with a proven track record of executing projects in a timely and cost-effective manner. Equally important, Bhate personnel work together to maintain consistent communications with our clients, keeping them informed of project findings and milestones, without any surprises.
  • Bhate provides quality work. Accuracy and attention to detail are critical in bringing quality to our studies, field activities, and construction projects. Our conscientious and competent personnel achieve this accuracy. To maintain these high standards of competence, Bhate personnel participate in a mandated continuing education and training program. After performing several thousand projects, Bhate owes its reputation to our commitment to our customers and to our people.
  • Bhate has a highly qualified professional staff. Bhate’s staff consists of experienced engineers, geologists, scientists, technicians, IT, and construction personnel. Our staff displays the highest technical standards and business ethics. Technical proficiency and a deep sense of pride in our work is the basis for our reputation and over 90% repeat clientele.
  • Bhate is experienced with regulators. We have developed strong relationships with regulators nationwide, based on mutual respect that enables us to expedite restoration schedules.
 
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    INVESTIGATIONS / STUDIES  
   
Bhate has a wealth of experience in evaluating site conditions and risk considerations to develop cost-effective solutions for our customers. Bhate is brought into projects because of our knowledge of regulations, success at negotiating favorable cleanup levels, and our ability to carry out the remedial solution.
 
       
 
 
 
Services include:
  • RCRA Investigations (RFI/CMS)
  • CERCLA Investigations (PA/SI/RI/FS)
  • Surface Geophysics, including electromagnetic (EM), ground-penetrating radar (GPR), conductivity, and resistivity to detect buried features and subsurface anomalies
  • Down-hole geophysics (single point resistivity, spontaneous potential, gamma)
  • Cone penetrometry (CPT)
  • Membrane Interface Probe (MIP) Contaminant Delineation
  • Soil boring and monitoring well installation
  • Slug tests and long-term aquifer tests
  • Field-scale pilot studies
  • System optimization studies/RPO
  • Low-level radiation screening and assessment
  • Flood Zone Studies
  • Phase I/II Assessments
  • Asbestos/Lead/Radon testing
  • GPS
  • Data interpretation techniques: CADD, GIS, and models
  • Risk Assessments
  • Data validation and ERPIMS
  • FOST/FOSL
 
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    COMPLIANCE  
   
Our knowledge of regulations has been strengthened by our continuous contact with state and federal regulators. Our project experience and in-depth interaction with regulatory agencies has increased our working knowledge of CERCLA, TSCA, RCRA, CWA, CAA, SDWA, and Final NCP. Through our extensive experience with DOD and non-DOD facilities, we have gained a thorough knowledge of each of these key environmental statutes and the regulations derived from them.
 
       
 

 

 

 
Services include:
  • NEPA process (DOPAA/EA/FONSI/EIS)
  • Waste Minimization/Pollution Prevention
  • Facility Response Plans (RFP)
  • Integrated Contingency Plan (ICP)
  • Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasures (SPCC) Plans
  • Permit applications (NPDES, RCRA, Subpart X)
  • Emission estimates and inventories
  • Environmental compliance audits and assistance
  • Community-Right-To-Know Reporting (EPCRA)
  • Fueling O&M manuals
  • Hazardous waste management plans
  • Solid waste management including landfill siting, landfill closure plans and solid waste management plans
  • SARA Title III Support
  • Hazardous Materials Training
  • Plans & Specifications for PCBs, lead-based paint, asbestos removal and remediation
  • Pesticide management
  • Wetlands and Stream Assessments and Evaluations
  • CWA Individual and Nationwide Section 404 permits relating to stream and wetland impacts
  • Feasibility studies for aquatic erosion restoration
  • Stream and aquatic ecosystem restoration
  • Stream assessments
 
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    DESIGN / REMEDIATION  
   
Bhate has prepared over 75 design packages for DOD, state, and private clients. Bhate’s remedial design experience benefits our clients by accelerating the design process to quickly identify the right remedial solution, lowering costs by adapting proven off-the-shelf designs from other similar projects, and applying proven innovative approaches and strategies. Bhate is experienced in providing “life cycle” cost evaluations to assist the customer in making the best remedial decision. Bhate focuses on evaluating site conditions and risk considerations to develop cost-effective solutions for our customers.
 
       
 
 
 
Services include:

Design
  • SVE/AS/Multi-Phase Systems
  • In-Situ Treatment (ORC, iSOC, HRC, PHOSter)
  • Airstripping and activated carbon absorption systems
  • Bioventing
  • Landfarming
  • Wastewater treatment designs
  • Streambank stabilization systems
  • Stormwater retention and management
  • Landfill covers and caps
  • Underground vault closure
  • Abatement (lead and asbestos)
Remediation/Construction/O&M
  • SVE/AS/Bioventing/Multi-phase
  • ORC, iSOC, HRC, and PHOSter
  • Airstripping and activated carbon absorption systems
  • Groundwater extraction/treatment
  • Landfill caps/covers
  • Bioremediation
  • Asbestos/lead abatement and demolition
  • UST/AST removal, upgrades, and replacement
  • LTM/LTO
  • Remedial Process Optimization (RPO)
 
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    OE / UXO SERVICES  
 
 
Bhate identifies, handles, and disposes of Ordnance Explosives (OE)/Unexploded Ordnance (UXO)/Chemical Warfare Materiels (CWM). We provide removal capabilities for any ordnance or CWM encountered on projects. Bhate is prepared to provide assistance in the area of OE characterization analysis, anomaly avoidance during assessment on contaminated ranges, quality assurance review of weapons safety programs, and UXO location, identification, removal, and disposal.
 
     
 
Services include:
  • Anomaly Surveys (geophysics)
  • Burial Site Identification
  • GPS Surveying and GIS Mapping
  • Historical Review
  • UXO Avoidance, Clearance, Characterization, Remediation, & Response Actions
  • Cleanup of Sites Contaminated with Surface and Buried UXO
  • Cost, Schedule, and Risk Controls
  • Construction Support
  • Unexploded ordnance screening and identification
 
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    CONSTRUCTION  
   
To compliment Bhate’s environmental services, we have performed a variety of construction-related services associated with facility support, renovation and remodeling, new additions, demolition and abatement, and construction management. Our construction planning services include site selection, zoning evaluation, environmental planning, designing, and long range O&M planning for operation.
 
       
 
 
Services include:
  • Cost estimating
  • Design and specifications
  • Construction management
  • Traditional engineering construction services
  • General Contractor
  • Construction and operating permits
  • Asbestos and Lead abatement and renovation
  • Environmental oversight during construction
  • Historic Building Renovation
 
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    INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY  
   
Bhate brings the power of technology to our clients. Bhate’s information technology expertise pulls together various information resources including engineering processes, office automation systems, document management, graphics networks, GPS, GIS, and CADD. As a small disadvantaged business, Bhate can support your subcontracting plan via our full-service laboratory procurement, data validation, ERPIMS, and GIS and/or CADD deliverables.
 
       
   
Services include:
  • Laboratory Management
  • Database Management and Design
  • Data validation and ERPIMS systems
  • Geographic Information Systems/CADD
  • Remote access to files and project data via our “secure” FTP site
  • Web Design, programming, and implementation
 
       
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