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The news of Hurricane Sandy commanded headlines in October when the natural disaster devastated parts of the Caribbean, and the East Coast of the U.S. Within 24 hours, TMC Environmental mobilized to impacted areas with response resources assisting in relief efforts in New York City and Northern New Jersey. Due to lack of available fuel, onsite space limitations and complete blackout conditions, TMC set up a remote incident command center and mobilized over 100 response personnel to conduct emergency and disaster response operations on a 24 hour basis. Emergency lighting and pumping systems were delivered with initial response resources. The impact of the flooding resulted in failure of building systems and electrical services from underground transformers. TMC's team engineered the relief effort and provided disaster response services in coordination with property owners, building engineers and regulatory agencies to stabilize and complete cleanup of many facets including millions of gallons of sea water, oil and hazardous materials removal and maintaining water level depression.
Specifically in New York, TMC was initially engaged to dewater more than 5 million gallons of sea water from a 250,000 sq. ft. building located in Manhattan. In addition, TMC was requested to assume responsibility for the remediation of the building.
TMC moved sequentially through the building deploying manpower to collect oil manually, apply degreaser, pressure wash and steam clean all surfaces in multiple areas and levels. During this operation, water and oil was collected from shafts, building areas, sump pits and elevators. Water was collected with vacuum trucks, hydraulic, pneumatic, electric submersible and gas driven high volume centrifugal pumps. Oil was skimmed and decanted within the vacuum trucks and frac tanks. Oil was loaded into transporters and shipped to disposal facilities that remained on call to receive waste from TMC in support of Sandy relief efforts. Ultimately the effort resulted in safe building conditions for residency and commercial use.
TMC responded on multiple fronts which included Long Island, Manhattan, Brooklyn, NY, Linden, NJ and Perth Amboy, NJ. From Wall Street in Manhattan to the oil terminals in New Jersey and the waterfront, TMC worked diligently to restore life back to normal. TMC's crews worked day and night to bring the oil terminals back online in order to get much needed gas and fuel to the local communities. TMC worked 12-hour shifts for days to decontaminate marine vessels involved with cleanup of numerous oil spills impacting local waterways caused by Hurricane Sandy.
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