Envirocon is honored to have been awarded Environmental Business Journal's Remediation & Restoration Project Merit Award for our efforts at the Milltown Reservoir Sediments Operable Unit site near Missoula, Montana. Between October and December of 2007, Environmental Business Journal accepted nominations for the annual "EBJ Business Achievement Awards." Winners were then selected by a committee of EBJ staff and EBJ editorial advisory board members and released in early January 2008. The 2007 EBJ Business Achievement Awards were presented in a ceremony and awards banquet at EBJ's Environmental Industry Summit in Coronado, near San Diego, California. Envirocon President, Mr. Jack Gilbraith, was selected as a panelist during the summit to discuss market activity in oil & gas, mining and other resource extraction industries, globalization leading to concentration in environmental service providers, business development and client retention in private sector markets. Envirocon also won EBJ's 2003 Silver Medal for achieving 20% revenue growth during 2003, exceeding the $100-million level. For more information on the awards and to see a complete list of winners visit http://ebiusa.com/EBJAwards.html.

The Milltown Dam project was won through a competitive-bid process that required Envirocon to develop a comprehensive design-construct plan for remediation of a highly complex Superfund site subject to significant regulatory, political and community scrutiny. The Milltown Dam was originally constructed to provide hydropower electricity for a large regional sawmill in 1907. In 1908, a 100-year flood resulted in an over-bank condition that washed tailings from a major copper mining operation approximately 100 miles upstream from Milltown. A portion of the sediment that settled at Milltown, estimated to equal 2.6 million cubic yards, has resulted in poor groundwater quality in the community and increased levels of arsenic found in drinking water. Envirocon's scope of work includes the following: construction of a 3,700-foot-long bypass structure in the Clark Fork River; construction and operation of a rail-car unloading facility; construction of a 6,000-foot-long sheet pile enclosure system; excavation and placement of a 500,000-cubic-yard soil "pre-load" layer; excavation, rail transport, and disposal of 2.6 million cubic yards of soils and sediments; demolition and removal of existing Milltown Dam and powerhouse structures; and construction.