Scarifying & Media-Blasting

Clean Harbors provides turnkey offsite transportation and landfill or incineration disposal services for soil and other contaminated media generated from remediation activities. Clean Harbors can also assist remediation contractors and project managers with support services including groundwater disposal, investigation derived waste (IDW) disposal, rolloff container management, and many other related services.

Waste Types Handled and Disposal Methods

Clean Harbors Scarifying and Media-Blasting Services remove staining or near surface contamination from porous and non-porous surfaces. Our processes can also be used to prepare surfaces such as concrete, for sealing with chemical resistant sealers in process floor space, and for secondary tank containments. By removing only the contaminated portions of surfaces, unnecessary demolition, reconstruction, transportation and disposal expenses are avoided.

Evaluation of Techniques

Clean Harbors evaluates the type and extent of contamination and then selects the best available technology.

Proper Pre-cleaning Sampling

Pre-cleaning samples are taken at various locations and depths. These steps provide a baseline that measures the effectiveness of the cleaning technique if the first pass is not sufficient in reaching the established goals.

Cross Contamination Elimination

Engineering controls and proper decontamination techniques for both personnel and equipment ensure that no fugitive emissions or contaminates leave the work zone.

Post-Cleaning Sampling and Evaluation

Clean Harbors performs post-cleaning sampling and confirms the effectiveness of the operations after the work is completed, but before demobilization begins.
Report Generation

Clean Harbors can provide customers with reports summarizing the operations performed along with the final results, without incurring the cost of a third party.

Sodium Bicarbonate (Baking Soda) Blasting

Clean Harbors Sodium Bicarbonate (Baking Soda) Blasting is a cleaning and surface preparation technique, an environmentally friendly replacement to conventional sand or grit blasting, and an alternative to chlorinated solvent applications.

Utilizing compressed air at high volumes and medium pressure, specially engineered Sodium Bicarbonate is used to remove many surface contaminants or coatings.  Since Sodium Bicarbonate is not harmful to the environment, the residue is easily disposed.  read more »

• Marine applications
• Architectural applications
• Food processing industry
• Industrial plants