On behalf of the US Army Corps of Engineers, Honolulu District, USACE New Orleans awarded Environmental Chemical Corporation a five-year, $150-million ID/IQ contract for debris removal, debris reduction, and site management services. Work under the contract will be awarded following any natural or man-made disaster within the State of Hawaii and Pacific Region.
Managed by ECC's Honolulu regional office, and assisted by five offices throughout the Pacific Basin, the contract involves emergency-response services for clearing, screening, reducing, transporting, and properly disposing of natural and man-made debris at disaster sites. As needed, ECC will also perform demolition services as part of cleanup efforts.
Types of debris ECC may be required to handle include (but are not limited to): vegetation, slide material (clay, sand, rock), lumber, concrete, asphalt, masonry, metals, and pesticides. All household hazardous wastes (HHW) will be managed by ECC's specially trained hazardous-waste-management team.
The current $150-million ID/IQ contract is a follow-on to the USACE Honolulu District's $90-million ID/IQ debris removal and management contract awarded to ECC in 1999.
Manjiv Vohra, ECC’s president and CEO, said, commented, "We are excited to continue our seven-year relationship with the Honolulu District. We are committed to supporting the District's environmental and emergency-management mission."
Under the former contract, ECC recently provided emergency-response debris-removal and management services after Typhoon Chata'an struck Guam on July 5, 2002. ECC provided all management, supervision, labor, and equipment in processing, transporting, and disposing of 160,000 cubic yards (cy) of green waste, 24,000 cy of household appliances, 26,000 cy of scrap metal, and 56,000 cy of construction and demolition materials.