Environmental Resources Management Consulting

Our Mission is to provide our clients with comprehensive, effective and timely environmental risk solutions through the application of science, insurance and law. ErMCs major strength is in our full service capacity, we can plan, implement and manage a successful consulting project involving legal, insurance, forensic and engineering components. The bundling of these services means that the integrity of your project can be maintained from inception to completion on every level. Company History - Environmental Resources Management Consulting was created for the express purpose of estimating the reclamation liability associated with the bankruptcy of Horizon Natural Resources (HNR) and its coal-subsidiaries for American International Group (AIG). Those first estimates became the basis for the creation of a work-out plan established by the Bankruptcy Court and eventually led to a zero-loss situation for AIG. After developing a successful outcome for AIG, ErMC2 turned its attention to the coal and aggregate industry to provide full service engineering services nationwide. ErMC2's professionals have over 150 years of experience in mining, permitting, mine management and production.Areas of expertise include: ENGINEERING Mining Services for the coal and aggregate industry include mine permitting and design, reserve modeling, and mineral property evaluation. Our specialties lie in mining engineering issues such as regulatory compliance, mine planning, ventilation & roof support designs, refuse storage facilities, coal waste impoundments, & seal design. Civil Highly experienced in sedimentology, construction inspection and management, mapping, surveying, soil mechanics, slope stability analyzation, hydraulic design, modeling, and analysis. Environmental Experienced in diversion ditches; wetland management; refuse impoundment design involving stability, seepage analysis, and breakthrough considerations; and air and soil sampling. Experienced in performance of Underground Storage Tank removal oversight, reporting, and investigating. Geotechnical We provide subsidence prediction and remediation; foundation investigations on dams, mines, and impoundments; pillar sizing and design; groundwater investigations; stability analysis of fills and road cuts; rock mechanics and reinforcement; roof control; GIS mapping; reserve analysis; and geologic modeling. ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTSWe are skilled in assessing risks and then planning and implement a tailor-made loss avoidance or mitigation program that will reduce client exposure to risks and the steep costs associated with them in a wide variety of industrial, environmental and credit-related fields. This largely comes into play in Phase I, II, and III assessments as well as reclamation liability assessments for insurance and banking agencies. STREAM CONSULTINGThis branch specializes in watershed hydrology, management, modeling, drainage control, soil and groundwater chemistry and impoundment design and inspection, water sampling, baseline monitoring, US Army Corps of Engineers 404 and 401 water quality permits, stream assessment, KPDES permitting, and stream mitigation planning and oversight. REMEDIATIONWe are familiar with the operation, development, and maintenance of various remediation systems including dual phase extraction, air-sparge/soil vapor extraction, bioremediation, groundwater recovery, and programmable automated skimmer. MANAGEMENT CONSULTINGWe perform business valuations, productivity improvements, environmental compliance, project risk analysis, maximization of product quality, evaluation and acquisition of major assets, mineral resource valuations, facility and equipment appraisals, financial modeling, restructuring planning, resource planning and optimization, customized run-off planning, asset disposal and crisis management, property and mineral tax assessment, and property sales and appraisals.RECLAMATIONServices include incremental bonding and release analysis, reclamation liability studies, reclamation bond expertise, and reclamation management and oversight CLAIMS MANAGEMENTWe provide highly customized claims management services to the insurance and financial industries. We are especially experienced in developing run-off plans. Claims management services include due diligence, feasibility studies, market analysis which are focused on quality and based on individual needs and objectives.