Contaminated Soils
From sites with current or legacy industrial activity, where excavated material may require controlled handling, treatment, or disposal to meet regulations.
Recover what you can. Control what you can’t.
Contaminated soils show up fast on civil and infrastructure jobs—brownfield redevelopment, fuel-impacted excavations, rail and port upgrades, industrial site work, and municipal projects where the material history is anything but clean. The result is usually the same: expensive hauling, uncertain disposal routes, and a constant risk of delays when the soil doesn’t meet reuse requirements.
Get Consistent with Contaminants
In civil construction, contaminated soils often come from legacy land use or site activity, including fueling areas, old industrial footprints, rail yards, maintenance yards, ports, and redevelopment sites. These materials can include a mix of native soil and imported fill, plus debris like asphalt fragments, brick, concrete, organics, and general jobsite waste. Contamination types can vary by site, but commonly include petroleum hydrocarbons, PAHs, metals, and site-specific industrial compounds.
The key challenge isn’t just contamination, it’s inconsistency. One pile can contain reusable coarse material and problematic fines all mixed together. Treating everything as waste is the simplest decision, but rarely the most cost-effective one.
Worth a Wash
Fueling & Maintenance Areas
In civil jobs, contaminated soil can be an outcome of cardlock stations, fleet yards, laydown areas, and shop zones where small drips and overfills add up over time.
Transportation & Industrial Corridors
Found in road shoulders, ditch lines, interchanges, and access roads. These areas collect sediment and runoff for years, often mixing fine silts with asphalt fragments and legacy residues.
Redevelopment & Demolition Footprints
Older industrial sites frequently contain imported fill mixed with brick, concrete, ash, slag, and general debris. Variability across sites can force conservative handling.
Stormwater Infrastructure Cleanouts
Catch basins, settling ponds, ditch clean-outs, and sumps. These materials are usually fine-heavy, mixed with organics and trash, and they often come with stricter handling expectations.
A Clearer Path to Sustainability
Contaminated soil management is often judged by where the tonnes end up. Soil washing can reduce landfill dependency by recovering usable material from what would otherwise be exported. That means fewer outbound trucks, fewer disposal loads, and less reliance on virgin aggregate coming back in to replace what you threw away. It’s a real, jobsite-level shift toward recovery and reuse, with a cleaner chain of custody and fewer surprises.
Explore What’s Possible with Soil Washing
Learn how washing can turn hydrovac waste into defined outputs
Caught up on Contaminants?
Turn high-cost material into a controlled process. Whether you’re exploring feasibility or ready to design, we’ll walk through the details and the next steps. Let’s talk soil washing.