Great Lakes Environmental Center, Inc. (GLEC) is an established national contracting firm offering applied environmental sciences, research, and compliance assistance focused on water quality and the protection of aquatic ecosystems. GLEC has grown steadily in each year of its existence, delivering services and solutions to government and commercial clients throughout North America.
The dedicated employee-owners at GLEC often set the standard in their respective fields by consistently applying our core philosophies of scientific excellence, corporate responsibility, environmental stewardship, and dedication to fulfilling client needs. Our unique experience serving both regulatory agencies and the regulated community translates into viable, insightful, and creative solutions to complex environmental challenges.
The dedicated employee-owners at GLEC often set the standard in their respective fields by consistently applying our core philosophies of scientific excellence, corporate responsibility, environmental stewardship, and dedication to fulfilling client needs. Our unique experience serving both regulatory agencies and the regulated community translates into viable, insightful, and creative solutions to complex environmental challenges.
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GLEC is a recognized national leader in field and laboratory-based water quality research and assessment work for both industry and regulatory agencies. GLEC researchers conduct surface water and groundwater quality assessments on any scale, from large integrated national studies to monitoring programs at the watershed, lake, and tributary level.
The environmental engineers at GLEC bring a broad range of expertise in water resource modeling expertise to help solve complex water quality problems in surface water and groundwater systems. GLEC's approach to assessing the sources, transport and fate of chemicals in aquatic ecosystems is based upon integrating research, data collection and modeling.
Water quality-based effluent limitations are routinely derived from national ambient water quality criteria for the protection of aquatic life or "ALC". NPDES permit limits do not usually consider actual site conditions, so U.S. EPA allows ALC to be adjusted to local water conditions through site-specific water quality criteria, which are often less costly to meet than federal or state water quality standards.
Bioaccumulation and bioconcentration studies are often integral to the evaluation of hazards to human and aquatic life and useful for compliance with NPDES or other regulatory requirements. GLEC has the resources to conduct laboratory and on-site field bioaccumulation/ bioconcentration studies that measure the effects of pollutants on the survival, growth, and behavior of aquatic species.
GLEC's approach to sediment quality and sediment toxicity testing is based upon an integrated approach that assesses sediment quality by combining laboratory in-life exposure of aquatic organisms with chemical monitoring and field based bioassessment techniques. Our sediment toxicity assessment methods follow written standard operating procedures based on established ASTM and EPA guidelines.
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Kristen Hasbrouck
Jul 10, 2020
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