Traveling westbound on a two-lane highway, a trucker loses control of his rig and crashes through the guardrail, fortunately unhurt. The 18-wheeler lands upright on a small creek adjacent to a farmer's cornfield. Both saddle tanks are ripped open and the diesel fuel from two fully filled tanks spill into the stream. ERTS was called by the trucking company to manage the cleanup of the diesel fuel spill. Immediately, ERTS contacted a network contractor and explained the scope of the work. An ERTS project manager was dispatched to the spill site and working with the contractor made sure the job was done with a limited number of personnel and the proper equipment. This standard procedure for ERTS saved the trucking company over $5,000.00 in the cleanup phase of the project. In addition, the PM made sure the local fire dept. didn't over bill for manpower and equipment. A Fire Dept. in Ohio can bill out personnel and equipment charges for haz mat responses. We made sure after the fire dept. contained the spill, they didn't charge the customer for additional services. The PM met with the Fish & Game Warden, the Regional EPA Administrator and made sure all their specifications were satisfied. Our expertise in communications with local, state and federal agencies assured the customer that there would be no future liabilities or fines. The ERTS PM met with the landowner and appraised him of the situation and encouraged him to observe the cleanup. Phase ll of the project - disposal was also managed by ERTS. By discussing options with the customer, ERTS was able to provide an excellent source of disposal at a major landfill in the same county the spill took place. Managing the disposal with no markup on the cost saved the client another $1,500.00. The results, a typical scenario, where ERTS saves our client's several thousands of dollars on a diesel fuel spill.

               A call comes into ERTS on a Friday afternoon in the late summer. Brakes on a 18-wheeler traveling on the hills of Northern West Virginia overheat and a fire results. The local fire dept. responds and puts out the fire with heavy doses of water. The cargo of soaps and detergents to be delivered to a local Dollar Store, mix with the water to create a sizable mass that traverses a church yard and a playground parking lot as it descends to the local creek. ERTS sends a corporate administrator and technician to the job site. The ERTS personnel working with the local authorities; Mayor's office, Police & Fire and WVa. EPA access the situation and coordinate the clean up with the authorities During the cleanup activities (Phase I) a straw bale filtration system was utilized for the storm water discharge outfalls. In addition a industrial cleaning company provided a portable vacuum system that eliminated the need to transport a large Haz Mat vac truck over the WVa mountains. This systematic approach saved our client $6,500.00 on the cleanup phase. On phase II, ERTS looked at options for removal and disposal of the straw bales based on the most cost effective method. Through our national contacts, ERTS saved the client over a $2,000.00 by having the waste properly disposed of in an adjacent state.

               The chances of a company having hydraulic fluid from one of its truck release twice in one month at an identical location sounds unreal, but it happened!! At a Central Pennsylvania location, a client of ERTS's delivered specialties vehicles to a manufacturing site and sprayed the parking lot with hydraulic fluid not once but on two occasions. ERTS was contacted on our toll free emergency number and we dispatched one of our network contractors. ERTS has over a 100-haz mat contractors in our nation wide network. Our contractor in the Central Pa looked at the ramifications of the release and marked the area off. State and local authorities concurred with ERTS management that phase 1 was not imminent. As we discussed options for the cleanup, and second released occurred within days and the cleanup was magnified. A project manager and technician from ERTS went to the spill site and discussed cleanup options with our client, contractor, mfg. company's management and state authorities. The surface where the release permeated was a crusher-run stone that required a mechanical devise to break through it. By recommending using a technician with a 60 lbs. sledgehammer instead of a backhoe and operator ERTS saved our client several thousand dollars. The resulting waste was loaded on dump trucks and disposed of in a regional landfill. By providing active management on the cleanup and disposal, ERTS gave our client options, which saved them thousands of dollars, and pleased all parties involved in the incident.