CDIM is pleased to announce that Kylie Cush, PG recently joined the firm. After spending five years at a national engineering firm honing her skills in geologic investigation, site cleanup and soil vapor mitigation, Kylie joined CDIM in March 2022. Kylie holds client service and quality as paramount values and will augment CDIM’s existing remediation capabilities.
Did you know that ASTM International published a 2021 revision to the standard E1527 for preparation of Phase 1 Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs)?
CDIM created a presentation on the subject to assist clients and fellow environmental professionals understand the revisions and the impacts on future Phase 1 ESAs. Click the photo below to download the full presentation. Updated May 11, 2022
CDIM exits the year with cautious optimism for the year to come. We learned a lot this year and grew as individuals and as a firm. One of our staff welcomed a baby, another a new dog, three staff gained new houses, and one moved to a new city. We hired a controller and continued to improve our business processes and grow our skills, with particular gains in hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, sediment remediation, and environmental and civil design for new development in San Francisco. Our firm continued its growth trajectory and was able to continue its tradition of year-end support to the SF Downtown Streets Team, SF CASA and the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. The end of 2021 feels an awful lot like the end of 2020, and we exit the year heartened by the same knowledge that working hard and true together for our clients and ourselves on projects we enjoy is the best thing we can do to usher in a grand 2022!
We wish peace and prosperity to our families, friends, colleagues, and clients in the coming year, and we also wish you time this holiday season to reflect on the things that matter most.
Thank you,
The CDIM Team
The year is ending and we write now to wish you all happy holidays and great fortune in 2021. Our hope and sincere belief is that life will come roaring back in 2021—bringing with it a renaissance of community, celebration, culture and innovation. We are grateful for the health and perseverance of all those around us over the past year, and especially for our clients and network of partner firms and organizations that enabled us to continue to function productively.
CDIM continued its annual tradition of making year-end donations to local charities. Each of the organizations below connects back to one of our team members, and we encourage those with the resources and desire to consider them in their charitable giving.
San Francisco Court Appointed Special Advocates advocates for abused and neglected children in foster care. www.sfcasa.org
Downtown Streets Team provides a work experience program that empowers individuals and acts as a stepping stone into employment, housing and a better life. www.streetsteam.org
Samaritan House is the largest food distribution agency in San Mateo County. www.samaritanhousesanmateo.org
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network's vision is to create a world in which all patients with pancreatic cancer will thrive. www.pancan.org
San Francisco Marin Food Bank provides meals to those in need in San Francisco. www.sfmfoodbank.org
We are grateful to all of our clients and partners for trusting us this past year. We wish you all a peaceful close to 2020 and prosperity and joy in the year to come.
Thank you,
The CDIM Team
Dear Friends, Family, Colleagues and Clients:
I write now to provide an end of summer update on the goings on at CDIM. In summary, we are muddling through the pandemic like most others, but we are happy to be healthy and productive and we are thankful for the opportunity to provide continued support our trusted clients.
Since we started CDIM, my partner Mary and I have been grateful for the three years of economic tailwinds that have helped our firm slowly grow. But 2007 had taught us that economic calamity was always on the horizon. And about that we were not wrong!
CDIM has made use of cloud and remote work technology since our inception and as a result were able to quickly disband from the office to our homes in response to COVID19. We revamped our safety program, bought new technology and home workstations, learned a new vocabulary (fomites, distancing, KF94, PCR and seroprevalence), and focused on how to best support our clients in a very different environment.
The following are the high points since the San Francisco Shelter-in-Place went into effect on March 17:
One of our staff members bought their first home and became engaged to be married!
CDIM acquired and outfitted a 17-foot Boston Whaler watercraft to enable us to provide nearshore water quality monitoring and sampling in the San Francisco Bay. Through this process, our staff learned a ton about maritime insurance, vessel safety, and compliance requirements from Coast Guard and OSHA for work in/over water.
We were awarded a $1-million, 3-year contract to provide environmental characterization regulatory compliance, water and air quality, and environmental engineering services to the San Francisco Public Works Department.
We continued to support our development clients by designing two drainage systems, one storm water treatment system, and two stormwater control plans. One of the systems required us to acquire necessary measurement and excavation equipment to install test pits and determine a site-specific design infiltration rate for a storm water BMP.
We performed two soil and groundwater investigations, evaluated vapor intrusion at an industrial property, designed the excavation of PCB-contaminated pipe, performed three environmental compliance audits at industrial facilities, designed and implemented an air monitoring program, evaluated the integrity of hazardous waste tanks, designed 15 curb ramps, prepared a grading and drainage plan for an industrial development, performed 4 asbestos/ PCB building material assessments, and represented projects/clients to numerous local building and health departments, USEPA, airport commission, air districts, RWQCBs and the DTSC.
What has kept us focused over the past five months is clear-eyed hard work and a continued drive to provide high quality service to our essential clients.
The end of the pandemic is not yet in sight. But even if it continues into 2021, CDIM is obligated to maintain our own productivity in order to maintain the strength of the commercial network to which we belong (clients, subcontractors, suppliers and all the people/families that rely on them). I am optimistic that we will emerge with a new appreciation for community and increased fortitude against whatever is the next challenge we face.
We encourage those in our network to mask up, distance, take care of others, carry-on with productive and essential activities, and help others to do the same.
Thank you,
Scott Bourne, PE
Principal
Along with the rest of our community, CDIM is adapting to the COVID-19 situation. Paramount is protection of the heath and well-being of our employees. We are operating at 100% using digital tools and continue to faithfully support all clients on all office work. In compliance with County, State and Federal mandates, as well as OSHA guidance, CDIM continues to provide field support services necessary to maintain critical infrastructure and essential business. In this dynamic time, CDIM is obligated to maintain our own productivity in order to maintain the strength of the commercial network to which we belong (clients, subcontractors, suppliers and all the people/families that rely on them). We encourage those in our network to distance, take care of others, carry-on with productive and essential activities, and request that others do the same.
