Working for an international environmental consulting firm at the time, ECL principal Fraser Hamilton was assigned to direct and manage the closure of USTs at a site in Louisville, Kentucky.  It ended up costing over a million dollars to deal with what the regulators called the biggest area of soil and groundwater contamination from a UST site seen to date. Mr. Hamilton was the onsite construction manager and project manager for this project.  The plume of contaminated soil and groundwater extended underneath the pad of a new Dillard's store.  The owner was afraid that the proposed groundwater extraction would result in settling that would cause his expensive Italian marble floor to crack.

The scope of work expanded from environmental assessment and remediation to foundation design and construction oversight.  Once the foundation was installed, 137 wells and nearly a mile of pipe was installed.  A custom PLC system was designed and constructed to control valves, a thermal oxidizer and a groundwater treatment system.  Manual control of the PLC was possible from anywhere.