What Is Environmental Excavation?

What Is Environmental Excavation?

You may already be familiar with excavation — the process of removing soil, rock, and debris to prepare land for construction work. In environmental excavation, often the goal is to remove contaminated soil or reshape land and waterways to restore natural systems. For...
Case Study: Little Chiques Creek

Case Study: Little Chiques Creek

As part of the eastern boundary of the borough of Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, the Little Chiques Creek also surrounds a 24-acre municipal park, forming a slow-moving, horseshoe-shaped oxbow section of stream. This portion of the creek had been modified in the past with a...