Asisted in the development and implemetation of a NRDA Closure plan, remediation, and significant civil engineering design, construction and operation for tailings and waste capture. Conducted multiyear assessment of environmental impacts and development of mitigation proceedings and a 25-year monitoring plan for fish, wildlife and water quality recovery.
Provided expert testimony, reviewed permitting documents and assessments done by state and federal agencies for due diligence and expert testimony (confidential).
The Casino project was a copper-gold-molybdenum porphyry deposit located 300 km northwest of Whitehorse. Western Copper Corporation (WCC) has the mineral rights to the Casino property. WCC proposed development of a gold heap leach and conventional flotation milling open pit mining operation with a 30-year life. The proposed development is subject to the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Act (YESSA). The assessments also included the potential environmental and socioeconomic effects and proposed mitigation measures. Dr, Wolf supervised one hundred and seventy-seven staff and subcontractors directly or indirectly on this project.
Keith Wolf participated in CERCLA (i.e., Superfund-ordered) remediation planning and assessments for wood pile and pole company operations. Duties included hazardous sediment sampling, under US EPA HAZWOPPER (MTCA, CERCLA legislation and guidelines). Lab preparation of biological and physical environmental samples was also included as specific scope items.
Keith participated in development of thke EIS, NRDA and cleanup plan and assessment of this former naval operations base in San Francisco Bay. Duties included hazardous 5 sediment sampling, under US EPA HAZWOPPER (MTCA, CERCLA legislation and guidelines). Radiological certification and lab preparation of biological and physical environmental samples comprised specific scope items.
Keith participated in CERCLA (i.e., Superfund-ordered) remediation planning and assessments for wood pile and pole company operations. Duties included hazardous sediment sampling, under US EPA HAZWOPPER (MTCA, CERCLA legislation and guidelines). Lab preparation of biological and physical environmental samples was also included as specific scope items.
Keith Wolf participated in CERCLA (i.e., Superfund-ordered) remediation for wood pile and pole company operations. Duties included hazardous sediment sampling, under US EPA HAZWOPPER (MTCA, CERCLA legislation and guidelines). Lab preparation of biological and physical environmental samples was also included as specific scope items.
Keith supported long-term biological studies of effects of dredging at the BP Oil Company Ferndale Refinery marine facilities. His work utilized keystone species of the commercially harvested Dungeness crabs (C. magister) to assess the impact and rate of recovery from dredge operations. Keith used standard trawls, scuba diving, and systematic habitat assessments to quantify the results of proposed mitigation actions. He also used underwater video surveys to document existing conditions in the study areas and took infauna and epifauna samples using standard corers and a specially designed diver-operated airlift suction sampler. This program was conducted for multiple years before and during dredging and continued for three years following construction to monitor habitat recovery processes.
Keith supported the characterization of marine sediments in adjacent waters of the ARCO Cherry Point Refinery Marine Terminal under the refinery’s federal and state NPDES permits. Keith provided consultation on the preparation of draft and final sediment sampling and analysis plans and conducted reconnaissance to assess conditions for sampling, obtained samples with a Van Veen grab sampler and scuba diving where locations were not accessible for grab sampling. Assisted with interpretation of lab results and reporting. Biological Resource Assessment and Impact Evaluation, Pier Dredging Project.
Keith Wolf supported this biological assessment for consultation under the Endangered Species Act for an expansion of the ARCO Marine Terminal in the SE Strait of Georgia. He evaluated impacts to baseline conditions for federally listed and candidate species under the Endangered Species Act in the project action areas. The project scope also included Pacific Herring (Clupea pallasii) as an ecological keystone species critical to federally listed salmonids. Keith obtained a concurrence letter as part of the permitting process from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in consultation with the National Marine Fisheries Service.