Press Releases

In early 2011, EarthFax Engineering, Inc. was contracted to evaluate the adequacy of the existing firewater system at a refinery and tank farm located in Salt Lake City, Utah. The purpose of the study was to determine areas of the refinery and tank farm where flow and pressure improvements where required to meet industry standards promulgated by the American Petroleum Institute and the National Fire Protection Association.

  EarthFax Engineering, Inc. has completed the preparation of a storm water runoff control master plan for the rural community of Loa located in southeastern Utah. Loa is a town of approximately 600 residents that has routinely experienced flooding in the eastern portion of the town during summer thunderstorms and snowmelt runoff events.

EarthFax Engineering, Inc. (“EarthFax”) recently completed preparation of a Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasures Plan (“Plan”) for a major university located in northern Utah. The Plan was written to comply with Federal regulations promulgated to prevent discharges of oil to navigable waters of the United States and adjoining shorelines.

EarthFax has successfully completed work to provide geological and geotechnical engineering services to a petroleum pipeline company that operates a 16-inch diameter crude oil pipeline in northeastern Utah.

EarthFax Engineering, Inc. ("EarthFax") was awarded contracts to provide geotechnical hazard evaluation and mitigation design services to a natural gas pipeline company.  This work was completed for replacement of approximately 26 miles of 16-inch diameter pipeline located in northern Utah and southwest Wyoming.

The city of Escalante, Utah moved into a new fire station today. Engineering design and construction inspection services for the facility were provided by EarthFax Engineering, Inc. The 6,200 square foot facility houses three fire trucks, one tanker truck, one ambulance, and three pickup trucks. It also includes office space, a conference room, and a storage mezzanine. Design services provided by EarthFax included site grading and utility design, and supervision of all architectural, mechanical, and electrical designs.

Richard White, President of EarthFax Engineering, Inc., has been reappointed by U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Gary Locke to the Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee. This appointment is effective through October 2012, when the ETTAC current charter expires.

On December 1, 2010 upset of a valve station on a 10-inch diameter crude oil pipeline resulted in a release of more than 21,000 gallons of oil onto the ground near Red Butte Gardens in Salt Lake City, Utah.  Oil filled the valve-station vault and ran downhill toward Red Butte Creek but it was contained by a snow bank and emergency-response efforts before it reached the creek.

EarthFax Engineering, Inc. ("EarthFax") has begun design studies to assist in determining the best means to remove hydrocarbon- hydrocarbon-impacted sludge and sediment from the Northwest Oil Drain Canal, a major canal that conveys storm water and treated industrial and sewage effluent from Salt Lake City to the Great Salt Lake.  Historic pollutant discharge sources to the canal from 1921 to the late 1950s include two refineries, a railroad, and a wastewater treatment plant for Salt Lake City.

On June 11, 2010 a 10-inch diameter crude oil pipeline ruptured, releasing more than 33,000 gallons of oil into Red Butte Creek located in Salt Lake City, Utah.  The cause of the release is still under investigation.  Oil flowed directly to the creek and went downstream for approximately 3 miles to a 30-acre storm-water detention pond situated in an urban park in Salt Lake City.  From there it flowed to the Jordan River, which flows through the middle Salt Lake County and empties into the Great Salt Lake.

EarthFax recently completed civil engineering designs for a central Utah pozzolan mine located adjacent to U.S. Interstate Highway 70 ("I-70").  Project work included roadway design for an un-surfaced haul road from the mine to I-70 and hydraulic design for reduction of storm water flow beneath I-70.

EarthFax Engineering, Inc. ("EarthFax") is providing environmental engineering services to a major rocket motor manufacturer to investigate, remediate as necessary, and close three former solid-waste burial sites, a burn pit, and a salvage area.

EarthFax recently provided geotechnical and geologic investigation, engineering design, and inspection services during construction of a series of soldier pile walls along the south side of Weber Canyon in northern Utah.  The project was undertaken to protect a 16-inch diameter crude oil pipeline by increasing slope stability along a 1,700-foot stretch of the canyon wall that was unstable and had experienced several recent and historic landslides.

EarthFax Engineering, Inc. ("EarthFax") recently completed a project to investigate, remediate as necessary, and close a former drum burial site at a rocket-motor manufacturing facility in northern Utah.  Excavation of approximately 15,000 cubic yards of waste and debris at the site took place in 1985 and 1986 as an interim corrective action prior to official approval of a RCRA Facility Investigation plan.

On January 7, 2009 EarthFax Engineering, Inc. ("EarthFax") was requested by its client to mobilize to the Red Wash oil and gas field located approximately 28 miles southeast of Vernal, Utah to assist with emergency response activities related to a release of oil.