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Take part in the 2025 Sediments Conference in Tampa, Florida, from ...
The annual Environmental Compliance Conference returns to North Carolina in Raleigh-Durham ...
Join SCS Engineers at the Alabama Coastal Foundation’s 11th Annual Sustainability ...
Join SCS Engineers at the 27th Annual EUEC Conference March 25–27, ...
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EPA alert
On December 4, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized amendments ...
SCS Engineers Executives
SCS Engineers is excited to announce our new Senior Vice Presidents: ...
Brightline redevelopment
  Recycling land and properties helps build opportunities for creating and ...
Rare earth elements
  In the United States, increased production of renewable energy products, ...
carbon capture and sequestration
  SCS Engineers’ authors Kacey Garber, PG, and Charles Hostetler, PhD, ...
capturing and sequestering CO2
Pelican Renewables LLC (Stockton, California) will receive $45,221,386 in CarbonSafe grant ...
Methane monitoring
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency USEPA Landfill Technology Workshop will ...
2024 EPA Update
EPA updated its Compliance and Emissions Data Reporting Interface (CEDRI) for ...
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Graphyte Carbon Removal
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SCS innovates

SCS is an employee-owned environmental consulting and construction firm that designs and implements sustainable environmental solutions. SCS is a full-service provider. We study challenges and design solutions; we remediate, build and operate environmental and energy projects and systems; and we monitor a wide range of environmental control systems. Our core capabilities are solid and hazardous waste management, landfill gas, site remediation, renewable energy, and regulatory compliance for air, water, and soil.

As technologies continue to evolve, SCS evolves. We remain at the forefront applying new processes and technologies to improve environmental compliance, reduce project risk, and provide our clients the ability to foresee and adapt business to environmental, social, economic, and regulatory change. Continuous improvement, our in-the-field experience, and our deep involvement in the industries we serve help us deliver smart and simple solutions that work.

  • 2024
    SCS Energy
    2013

    RMC’s drone with LiDAR improves renewable natural gas and biogas facility designs, improving ROI.

  • 2023
    SCS RMC® Pro
    2023

    Pro provides a holistic view of all LF systems.

  • 2022
    SCS RMC® GIS
    2022

    SCS RMC® GIS augmented provides you with subsurface X-ray vision

  • 2021
    SCS MobileTools® + SCSeTools
    2021

    SCS WDT™, a MobileTools feature for collecting and reporting flare data wirelessly. SCS enhances SCSeTools with GIS - see inside your LFG wells, check liquids, pumps from your office.

  • 2020
    SCS Technology
    2020

    SCS RMC® augmented 3D-5D - visualize actual or conceptual site conditions.
    SCSeTools® launches groundwater monitoring.

  • 2019
    Intelligent Drones
    2019

    Ignition Perspective SCADA software and national drone services integrated with SCS RMC®

  • 2018
    Solid Waste Management
    2018

    SCS financially viable recycling, SMM, and organics programs spread nationwide with solid waste master planning.

  • 2017
    SCS Expands Existing Expertise
    2017

    SCS expands existing expertise for managing treatment of liquid wastes at landfills to mining, oil and gas, utility and manufacturing sectors.

  • 2016
    SCS Financial Modeling
    2016

    Cities and communities in the states of AZ, CA, FL, MO, NC, OK, TX, VA, and WA are profiting from SCS Financial Modeling by evaluating actual expenditures and projecting long-term conditions for major waste management programs.

  • 2015
    Landfill Technologies
    2015

    SCSeTools® wireless technology to streamline OM&M landfill data for compliance and maximum capture.

    SCS Remote Monitoring and Control® expands RMC functionality.

  • 2014
    Oil & Gas
    2014

    SCS announced as a finalist as the Engineering Company of the Year in the 2013 West Coast Oil and Gas Awards for demonstrated expertise in utilizing new and advanced tracer technologies.

  • 2013
    Low-Flow Monitoring
    2013

    SCS became one of the first environmental engineering firms to use custom manufactured Low-Flow Monitoring devices to more accurately measure gas production per well and offer better control flow and more efficient pressure.

  • 2012
    CDR Facility + Plasma Arc Gasification
    2012

    In 2012, SCS Designed and built the first Class III waste (trash + C&D debris) MRF in FL. In 2012, SCS helped secure the first Plasma Arc Gasification Facility permit issued in CA.

  • 2011
    LFGE + Biomethane Plant
    2011

    SCS constructed the first LFGE facility in Mississippi. SCS designed/built the first biomethane plant at a wastewater treatment plant in CA to inject digester gas into natural gas pipelines.

  • 2009
    Bioreactor Landfill
    2009

    SCS obtained the first Research, Development, and Demonstration (RDD) permit for a bioreactor landfill in EPA Region 9.

  • 2008
    Greenhouse Gas
    2008

    SCS develops, Technologies and Management Options for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Landfills, for CalRecycle -- CARB references as the specific guidance for operators to comply with AB 32 landfill methane rule.

  • 2005
    Brownfields + Waste Characterization
    2005

    SCS obtains first permit issued in SC to re-develop an industrial waste landfill as industrial park.

    SCS performed the first statewide waste characterization study in CA.

  • 2005
    RDD Permit
    2005

    SCS obtained the first Research, Development, and Demonstration (RDD) permit for leachate re-circulation at a landfill in EPA Region 3.

  • 2004
    Design-Build Powerplant
    2004

    SCS Designed and built the first LFG-fueled microturbine power plant in the state of FL.

  • 2001
    Feasibility
    2001

    SCS Feasibility study for a diaper recycling facility; the first study of its kind in California.

  • 2000
    e-Waste Collection
    2000

    SCS designed one of the first e-Waste Collection events in California.

  • 1990’s
    RCRA Corrective Action
    Mid 90's

    SCS performed one of the first RCRA Subtitle C Corrective Actions in EPA Region 9. This project was redeveloped into the California Speedway NASCAR track.

  • 1996
    U.S. Patent
    1996

    SCS employee received a U.S. Patent for inventing the first fully-permitted method for on-site condensate disposal for a landfill closure. An injection-based system for incinerating contaminants in LFG condensate within an LFG flare.

  • 1996
    Leachate Collection
    1996

    Designed 1st landfill leachate collection sump of its kind in the U.S. on compressed phosphatic clay slimes: reinforced concrete sump, horizontal HDPE access, removable horizontal leachate pump, & extensive foundation geogrid.

  • 1996
    Leachate Management
    1996

    SCS designed the first onsite leachate treatment/disposal system of its kind in the U.S. including a 750,000 gallon leachate storage tank and reduced ammonia concentrations through a nitrification/de-nitrification process.

  • 1993
    RCRA Training
    1993

    SCS designed the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Subtitle D Training Manual for Regional EPA and State regulatory staff. Note: SCS proposed composite liners long before the promulgation of Subtitle D.

  • 1992
    MRF
    1992

    SCS Designed the first materials recovery facility in the state of FL. The MRF served Walt Disney World in Orlando, FL.

  • 1990
    RI/FS
    1990

    SCS Performed the first state lead PRP RI/FS under Superfund in Virginia.

  • 1989
    Leachate Monitoring
    1989

    SCS prepared for the California Waste Management Board authoritative document titled Procedural Guidance Manual for Sanitary Landfills: Volume I Landfill Leachate Monitoring and Control Systems.

  • 1989
    Design-Permit + Corrective Measures
    1989

    Designed & permitted the first new landfills per Virginia 1988 Solid Waste Management Regulations.

    SCS planned one of the first RCRA Subtitle C corrective actions in EPA Region 7.

  • 1988
    RCRA Subtitle C
    1988

    SCS Performed one of the first RCRA Subtitle C corrective actions in EPA Region 4.

  • Late 80’s
    LFG Migration + Tracing Odors
    Late 80s

    SCS Tracer pioneers use of tracer gas technologies to assess and study LFG migration issues.

    SCS Tracer pioneers use of tracer gas science to assess landfill odors and to use the data as a basis for control strategies.

  • 1987
    Remedial Investigation
    1987

    SCS performed the first federal lead Potentially Responsible Party Remedial Investigation & Feasibility Study under Superfund in EPA Region 7.

  • Late 80’s
    Clean Closure
    Clean Closure

    SCS Obtained the first RCRA clean closure in VA under a health-based approach for a site where contaminants were not removed to background levels.

  • 1985
    Superfund
    1985

    One of the first Superfund remedial designs in the nation by SCS. Superfund site in Hillsborough, NJ. Led to the site being among the first to be de-listed from the NPL.

  • 1982
    Coal Combustion and PCB’s
    1982

    SCS ground breaking projects for the electric utility industry on the proper management of PCBs and continue to be authoritative references to the present day.

  • Late 70's
    Post-Closure
    Late 70s

    SCS designed & secured permits for one of the first commercial buildings constructed on a former landfill site in the U.S. SCS LFG O&M expertise integral to permit issuance, and continues to be a key element of site operations to the present day.

  • 1978-79
    Landfill Design
    1978-79

    In 1978, SCS wrote the EPA Sanitary Landfill Design and Operation Manual.

    In 1979, SCS wrote the EPA Sludge Landfill Design and Operation Manual.

  • 1977
    EPA: Protocol
    1977

    SCS Wrote the EPA’s national protocol for sorting municipal solid waste.

  • 1971
    EPA: Educational Film
    1971

    SCS designed the U.S. EPA educational film, Sanitary Landfill — You’re the Operator.

  • 1970
    Corporation Established
    1970

    SCS Engineers was founded.

SCS Address

Corporate Headquarters

3900 Kilroy Airport Way Ste 100
Long Beach, CA 90806-6816

Telephone

1 (800) 767-4727
1 (562) 427-0805 | FAX
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