PWT’s Montana office has moved to 54 North Last Chance Gulch, Helena, to accommodate three new employees supporting additional EPA Remedial Action Contract 2 Work Assignments and other additional clientele in Montana.

PWT, as a team member with prime contractor the Arcanum Group, was awarded a five-year contract to provide comprehensive administrative and technical support services to the General Services Administration, Public Buildings Service, Rocky Mountain Region, Region 8. The Public Buildings Service provides building leasing and management services to the civilian federal government nationwide. GSA Region 8 manages more than 16 million square feet of space in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Montana, South Dakota and North Dakota. The more than 90 employees on this contract will work at the Denver Federal Center in Lakewood providing contracting, landscape design, graphic arts, project management, administrative support, and real estate support services. The contract runs through September 2016.

PWT was awarded the Hazardous Material Control Center contract for the Fort Carson Army Base in Colorado Springs. PWT supports Fort Carson’s mission by acquiring and managing hazardous materials needed for base operations, with the additional goals of improving cost efficiency, reducing public health risks, and improving environmental stewardship methods associated with the use of these specialized materials. The contract runs through September 2014.

On August 13, PWT employees had a party and a purpose. The PWT summer picnic was at Clement Park in Littleton, but before the party, several employees helped clean and paint weathered picnic tables and benches and picked up trash at the park. Participants included Levi Todd, Dorthea Hoyt, Dan Zigich, Robin Witt, Brian Witt, Tai-Dan Hsu, Chuck Champion, Zac Champion, and Diane Richter. Photo, front to back: Robin Witt, Diane Richter, and Chuck Champion.

PWT has opened a new office in downtown Helena to support PWT’s growing number of projects in Montana.

Catherine LeCours has  joined PWT as a senior project manager working out of the new office in Helena. She is responsible for environmental investigation, design, and remediation services at Environmental Protection Agency Superfund sites in Montana. LeCours has a B.S. in environmental health and brings to PWT more than 13 years of experience as a project manager for the Montana Department of Environmental Quality. She has worked closely with the Environmental Protection Agency on cleanup at 13 Federal Superfund sites in Montana.

LeCours can be reached at PWT’s Helena office in the Power Block Building at 7 W. 6th Ave., or by calling 406-422-6915.

PWT, a Colorado company headquartered in Wheat Ridge, has been awarded the 5-year contract option period for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 8 Remedial Action Contract 2 (RAC2).  The $233‑million, 5-year base-period and 5-year option-period contract for environmental remediation services was awarded in 2006.

“We are pleased to continue our professional relationship with EPA with the extension of this contract,” said Ding-Wen Hsu, PWT owner, “and we appreciate EPA’s efforts to support small business on this type of procurement.”

During the 5-year base period, PWT has provided technical and management services on 23 Work Assignments for environmental cleanup and oversight at Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA, also known as Superfund) sites throughout EPA Region 8, which includes Colorado, Montana, Utah, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming, and Region 9 crossover work in California.  Contract work also supports states and communities in preparing for responses to releases of hazardous substances, as well as counter-terrorism.

This work includes the following projects:

• PWT implemented a remedial action for a 3-year, $6.6 million project on a mine-tailings site in Leadville, Colorado. PWT was the prime contractor for implementation of a of first-of-its-kind in-situ remediation of large areas of mine tailings, and acquisition and management of construction subcontractors.
• PWT finalized the performance-based design and implemented remedial action for a pump-and-treat system to treat contaminated groundwater on a $4.7 million project near Bountiful, UT.  The system consists of four extraction wells, 7,000 feet of groundwater extraction piping, and a treatment system using activated carbon.
• PWT provides technical oversight services for the remedial action at a complex, urban industrial waste site contaminated with waste oils disposed in large waste pits on a $2.2 million project near Fresno, California. Work included review of all technical design and remedial action plans, soil and groundwater sampling, waste pile excavation and cover construction, and soil vapor extraction and vadose zone monitoring.
• PWT developed remediation alternatives for the Record of Decision, prepared cost estimates for the preferred remedy,  and provided extensive community involvement, regulatory negotiations, and sampling evaluation on a $370K project at an abandoned mine/smelter site near East Helena, Montana.