Rockaway Terminal
The site of a former fuel oil terminal contains as much as 13 feet of free phase oil residing on the water table only 500 feet from the Rockaway River.
AKRF coordinated a public-private partnership with the Borough of Rockaway and a developer to design the strategy to remediate the environmental impacts and obtain the redevelopment approvals from the municipality and NJDEP.
We facilitated a grant from the New Jersey Economic Development Authority to pay for 100% of the site assessment and up to 75% of remediation costs. We designed the ground water extraction and treatment system to establish hydraulic control over the free product residuals to prevent further migration towards the river while removing free phase mass using a total fluids collection and treatment approach.
Over a four–year period, the contiguous body of oil that was over three acres in size was significantly reduced and inhibited from further migration towards the river.
