ENVIRONMENTAL AND
PERMITTING Compliance
Permitting, compliance monitoring and regulatory support for municipal, commercial and industrial clients across the United States.
Professional Affiliations
Active members of the Water Environment Federation, Partners for Environmental Progress and the Geological Society of America
Agency Partnerships
Established relationships with state environmental agencies, EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on permitting and compliance matters
Multi-State Experience
Environmental permitting and compliance experience spanning Alabama to multi-state pipeline projects in Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio and Kansas
Full Service Approach to
ENVIRONMENTAL PERMITTING and COMPLIANCE
Environmental permitting and compliance is rarely a one-time transaction. A permit is issued, then a facility must function inside its conditions for years, through inspections, monitoring, reporting and violation notices. McFadden Engineering has established relationships with local, state and federal regulatory agencies and navigates the permitting process on our clients’ behalf, saving time and capital, while also providing the ongoing compliance monitoring, audits and best management practice (BMP) implementation that keep a facility in good standing long after a permit is issued.
QUESTIONS CLIENTS SHOULD CONSIDER
If any of these sound familiar, that’s exactly the kind of problem our engineering approach is built to solve.
SOLUTIONS-ORIENTED Engineering APPROACH
Permitting and compliance work is only as good as the regulatory relationships and technical detail behind it. McFadden’s engineers handle both, so a permit application holds up under agency review and the compliance program that follows keeps a facility compliant and violation-free.
Step 1 – Assess
We evaluate a facility’s operations, discharge points and project scope against applicable federal, state and local regulations to determine exactly which permits and compliance measures apply.
Step 2 – Design and Plan
We develop the best management practices, monitoring plans, spill prevention plans or permit application materials specific to the project, rather than a generic template.
Step 3 – Permit and Coordinate
McFadden manages the permit application and coordinates directly with the state environmental agency, EPA, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and other regulatory agencies on our clients’ behalf, saving time and capital.
Step 4 – Monitor and Maintain Compliance
Once a permit is issued, our team provides the ongoing compliance monitoring, sampling and BMP inspections that keep a facility in compliance for the life of the permit, not just when it’s granted.
We prepare and manage permit applications for facilities discharging treated wastewater or stormwater to surface water, into the subsurface or withdrawing water for drinking water or industrial process use.
Land disturbance and industrial activities carry their own permitting and planning requirements. We prepare construction general permits and develop the spill prevention and BMP plans that keep a site or facility in compliance during and after construction.
Once contamination is identified and delineated, the McFadden team designs a remediation strategy customized to the site’s actual conditions, from straightforward excavation to more complex in-place treatment when contamination reaches groundwater or sits beneath a structure.
Larger capital projects, including pipelines, dredging operations, port and industrial facility work, carry environmental review requirements that can stall a project if they aren’t managed correctly. McFadden provides the environmental assessments, watershed and wetlands evaluations, and Corps of Engineers permitting these projects require.
We prepare and manage permit applications for facilities discharging treated wastewater or stormwater to surface water, into the subsurface or withdrawing water for drinking water or industrial process use.
For municipal and utility clients, McFadden brings engineering discipline to public water and wastewater infrastructure, from treatment plant upgrades to the permitting and compliance work municipal systems must maintain year over year.
For clients with small to medium flow wastewater systems, McFadden offers training, maintenance and full facility management, giving facilities without a dedicated operations team access to engineering-backed day-to-day support.
Using in-house lab equipment and modeling software, McFadden builds water quality and hydraulic models to evaluate a facility’s problem before committing to a design direction, reducing the risk of over- or under-sizing a solution.
MCFADDEN ENGINEERING
INDUSTRIES SERVED
Environmental permitting and compliance needs cross every industry McFadden works with.
Municipalities and Utilities
NPDES and UIC permitting, stormwater compliance and MS4 permitting support for public systems
Heavy Industrial
Ongoing compliance monitoring, spill prevention planning and permitting for steel mills and pipeline construction projects
Food and Beverage Processing
Pretreatment evaluation and NPDES permitting for high-organic-load discharges
Need Help With Environmental Permitting or Compliance?
Contact McFadden’s engineering team about your permitting or compliance needs, from a single NPDES application to ongoing compliance monitoring for a multi-state capital project.
Frequently Asked Questions
McFadden prepares and manages NPDES permits, industrial general NPDES permits, UIC permits, water withdrawal permits, construction general permits and Corps of Engineers permitting for activities in waterways, including dredging.
Both. McFadden prepares and manages permit applications and provides ongoing compliance monitoring, stormwater monitoring, spill plan inspections and BMP implementation for the life of the permit.
Yes. In addition to our core work across Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Mississippi, McFadden has completed environmental permitting and compliance work for pipeline projects in Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio and Kansas.