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Ryan McFatridge was awarded the CSXT Hazmat 2010 Field Service Award at their Public Safety and Environmental Conference

At CSX Transportation's annual Public Safety and Environmental Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, Ryan McFatridge was awarded the CSXT Hazmat 2010 Field Service Award.

CSXT's Regional Hazardous Material Manager, Bill Baker, selected McFatridge for this award. During the ceremony, Baker cited McFatridge's desire to perform above and beyond set expectations, outstanding onsite safety practices, and impeccable quality of work as deciding factors in his selection.

"It takes a team to succeed at anything, and it's the relationship that Summit has built with CSX that has allowed us to provide the level of service CSX has come to expect from us. It really has been a group effort between the Summit team and Bill that led to the many accomplishments of 2010," comment McFatridge.

A single recipient from each of eight hazmat regions is chosen each year, making this a highly coveted award among CSXT's environmental service contractors. Including McFatridge, Summit Contracting employees have won the award a total of five times.

Summit was also awarded the Performance Quality Award through CSXT's Emergency Response Preferred Provider Program in 2003. Summit Contracting provides a variety of environmental services for CSXT, including 24-hr hazmat response, specialty tank car services, and site remediation.

Impacting the Bottom Line Evansville Business Magazine

Summit Contracting's clients often look to them for answers when it comes to complex projects

"Summit really shines where our competition shies away," says Don Sawyer, vice president and general manager of civil operations. According to Sawyer, Summit Contracting's civil division focuses on complex projects where their crew's years of experience can be put to use. "Our people have been in the earthmoving business for a very long time, allowing us to make suggestions to our clients that impact their bottom line."

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Preparing for Growth

Summit makes strategic personnel changes as market positively responds to new focus as an Environmental and Specialty Civil Services Company

The market has positively responded to Summit Contracting, LLC's new focus as an environmental services and specialty civil services company. As Summit prepares for anticipated growth, we have made several strategic personnel changes providing elevated focus on critical areas of our business. The following changes were made effective Monday, January 3, 2011:

Mark Winchester, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, formerly VP and GM of Business Development

Andy Shoulders, Senior Vice President of Finance and Administration, formerly VP and GM of Environmental Contracting

Jamie Bergeron, General Manager Environmental Services, formerly General Manager Environmental Remediation

Matt Weisheit, Manager Industrial Services, formerly Emergency Response Manager

Jim Reed, Manager Corporate Health and Safety, formerly Manager of Environmental Health and Safety

Andy Wehr, Manager Field Operations, formerly Estimator and Project Manager

Tom Stone, Field Manager Emergency Response, formerly Emergency Response Manager

Robert Paulin, Manager High Pressure Cleaning, New Hire

Jeff Wickham, Senior Estimator and Project Manager, formerly Estimator and Project Manager

Jeff Crawley, Contract Administrator, New Hire

Chris Rettkowski, National Account Manager, New Hire

We are confident these changes will allow Summit to continue to provide the superior standard that has come to be expected of our services. We are looking forward to growing relationships with new clients, while fostering opportunities existing clients have given us to serve them in new capacities. 

Not Just Local Evansville Business Magazine

Summit Contracting offers environmental and specialty contracting services nationwide

"The environmental and specialty contracting company founded in Evansville in 1998 has grown into much more than a local player. Summit has since performed work in 37 states and three countries. In 2009 alone, Summit provided services in 23 states." Read more 

National ER Agreement Renewed

Temple-Inland announces the renewal of their national emergency response agreement with Summit Contracting

In a meeting in late November, Temple-Inland and Summit Contracting renewed their national emergency response contract, allowing Summit to continue to manage the response efforts to environmental issues that may arise at their 64 US locations.

Summit began building their relationship with Temple-Inland more than 10 years ago, leading to the first national emergency response agreement that was signed in 2004.

In addition to emergency response, Summit will be working with Temple-Inland on a corporate level to provide services for industrial cleaning operations, and groundwater/soil remediation.

The Summit Team is excited about this renewed parternship, and is looking forward to providing many more years of service at Temple-Inland facilities.

LST 325 Leak Successfully Contained

No contaminated water entered city's water filtration plant

Summit Contracting crew members used boom to contain an oil leak on the Ohio River, which was determined to have come from a starboard holding tank on the LST 325. A mixture of oil, diesel and water seeped from the tank while the ship was docked at Evansville's Marina Point, less than 2,000 feet upstream from the Evansville Water and Sewer Utility's filtration plant.

According to Kenny Adams, Executive Director at the LST 325, "Summit's service was superb. Once the oil sheen was detected, our crew took precautionary measures such as listing the ship 15 degrees to slow the leak and deploying absorbent boom we had on hand. However, once Summit arrived on the scene, I was confident the spill was being handled according to protocol."

The leak was discovered on Thursday, September 23, when an oily sheen was detected around the hull of the ship. A crew of five Summit personnel responded and immediately deployed skirted boom around the contaminated area, and also at the water filtration plant in front of the intake area in order to keep the contaminated water from entering the plant. Absorbent boom was then deployed to absorb the contaminants on the river's surface. It was estimated that less than 20 gallons of the mixture was released.

"The absorbent boom had captured the contaminants from the water by Friday evening," said Tom Stone, Summit's Emergency Response Coordinator. 

Click here to find out more about Summit's 24-hr hazmat response services.

Summit Employee Pictured on LATimes.com

Summit crew fills key roles in BP oil spill cleanup

A Summit crew has been stationed in the Gulf for a significant period of time during the BP oil spill cleanup. Employees, such as Codie Durham, pictured on the LA Times website, have played critical roles in the oil burning operations. They have been engaged in activities such as building ignition devices, deploying flame-resistant boom, captaining ignition vessels and communicating with overhead air support to determine burn locations.

A team of two shrimp boats, connected by flame-resistant boom, emcompass u-shaped sections of oil creating burn boxes. Igniter vessels light the fires by deploying ignition devices created from two half-gallon jugs filled with diesel gel and bound together by foam and tape, while small spotter planes fly overhead and provide coordinates for burn locations.

Oil burning efforts in the Gulf have been arguably the most dangerous, yet the most successful of the clean up initiatives. In the three months succeeding the explosion of the BP oil rig, 329 fires were ignited and more than 10.3 million gallons of oil were burned.

Clean, green company courierpress.com

Summit earning a name for its environmental work

"Whether its an overturned truck on U.S. 41 or a 400,000 gallon spill of fuel on the Mississippi River, there is an Evansville company that can handle it."

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Wrecking crew brought in to open Emge hot spot courierpress.com

A crane with a wrecking ball was brought in Tuesday afternoon to attack what fire officials believed was the last hot spot of fire in the walls of the former Emge meat packing plant.

"Crews from Evansville-based Summit Environmental Services and firefighters from throughout the area worked through the night Monday and into early afternoon Tuesday to extinguish hot spots smoldering in the walls of the building."

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Summit employees spend time off the clock to clean up the Evansville river bank

Summit Contracting employees participated in collecting garbage along the Evansville Riverfront during the River Sweep, on June 19. Some employees walked the river bank and collected garbage, while project managers, Eric Friend, Andy Wehr and Mark Lovelace skimmed the shore line from a work boat to gather floating debris.

This was Summit's first year participating in the River Sweep, but it was not hard to recruit volunteers. Summit employees are passionate about improving the environment. It is not just their job, they take it to the next level and donate their personal time to volunteer as well.

This year, the Vanderburgh County event drew over 200 volunteers and the trash collected filled approximately 200 garbage bags. Regionally, more than 3,000 miles of shoreline was cleaned in Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.