Technical Solutions

 

Facilities & Infrastructure

HNC brings management support for buildings, utilities, and transportation assets based on 40 years of experience in the industry.  Relevant experience includes:

·       Municipal water and wastewater facilities

·       Industrial processing facilities

·       Mine and mineral processing plants

·       Food & Beverage plants

·       Roads, Rail, and Air facilities

Water, Wastewater, Produced Water

HNC brings management support based on 40 years of experience within this realm. This experience includes groundwater, surface water, drinking water, storm water, municipal and industrial wastewater, and oilfield wastewater (produced water).  Projects I have conducted or led include:

·       Filtration system design at water and wastewater facilities in Texas

·       Water distribution modeling for large cities

·       Acid drainage treatment plant at mine site in Colorado

·       Storm water program in historic Montana mining district

·       Design/build of 25 million gallon storm water system at a Texas refinery

·       Design/build of a biological treatment system at a major snack food plant in Arizona

·       Fugitive plastics capture and recycling design/build at a polyethylene plant Texas

·       Produced water treatment study at a shale basin in Argentina

·       Produced water treatment design/build at a coal-bed-methane facility in Wyoming

Environmental Management & Remediation

Hunter Nolen started working in environmental remediation on a wood treating site on the Ellis 1 Unit, maximum security prison in Huntsville, Texas in 1987. The site was historically used by inmate “trustees” to treat construction timber for use on the prison grounds. Here and elsewhere, the early days of industrial processing did not typically include good waste management practices. At the time of my experience at Ellis 1, the field of environmental remediation was still nascent (CERCLA “Superfund” law had only been in effect since 1980) and the buzz words of the day were “delineating the nature and extent of contamination.”  Working as a young project manager with some of the most seasoned and renowned hydrogeologists, geochemists, and toxicologists in the industry ingrained in me a project management style of “mining” brainpower from project participants while respectfully guiding them to deliver their expertise logically, on time, and on budget.  During the U.S. savings & loan crisis of the late 1980s, I managed some of the largest environmental due diligence projects in the country, motivated by the young CERCLA regulations. Starting in 1988 I managed remediation at numerous federal Superfund sites in multiple US states across the western half of the US and Gulf Coast. From this range of experience, HNC brings remediation management solutions to clients.

Legal/Litigation Technical Support

HNC provides technical review of legal disputes in the engineering and natural science arena to assist attorneys in understanding the important technical characteristics of their case.

 

Regulatory Support

HNC provides support to clients needing to engage with regulatory agencies. Some examples include:

·       Transferring RCRA waste permits from a seller to a buyer of a large Texas paper mill

·       Establishing discharge criteria for a Montana mine water system

·       Defining environmental liabilities with regulators in a California land sale

·       Establishing groundwater control authority for an Indiana food manufacturer

·       Resolving regulatory issues in many cases of soil, sediment, and water contamination