Forensic analysis
Ramboll has extensive experience using forensic analysis to assist clients in identifying the relative contributions of various potential sources to PFAS detected in the environment as a key element in liability assessments, apportionment, and allocation of costs and liabilities. This work has included:
- Evaluation of historical and operational records, including operational history reconstruction and supply chain evaluations
- Chemical fingerprinting, including multivariate statistical analyses to distinguish between multiple sources
- Evaluation of region-specific and site-specific anthropogenic background concentrations
- Chemical fate and transport evaluation and environmental modeling in air, stormwater and groundwater
- Designing degradation studies to characterize the environmental fate of specific PFAS
- Hydrogeological and geological assessments
- Innovative sampling and data analysis methods