Creating Solutions to

Environmental Challenges

The clandestine production of illegal drugs has been recognized as a severe threat to health and the environment. Illegal drug manufacturing within a structure without the proper safety devices, as found in a professional laboratory, often leads to gross surface contamination of chemicals and most often finished product. Many counties and states lay the burden of proof on the shoulders of the property owner to show the structure is safe for re-occupancy.

Synergy Environmental Management’s staff experience includes dozens of clandestine drug lab property assessments. Synergy Environmental Management helps property owners by working with the local environmental health and hazardous materials departments to ensure compliance and resolution in a timely manner. Synergy Environmental Management services include:

• Sampling for product and associated chemicals to determine the extent, if any, of contamination and to recommend methods to eliminate the contamination.

• State/County/City agency coordination to ensure client cooperation.

• Remediation contractor oversight during the cleanup stage

• Final Clearance Sampling to insure the cleanup was performed properly

These are just a few of the common ingredients used to produce Meth. 

Every pound of methamphetamine produced generates five or more pounds of hazardous waste. Much of this waste is dumped down drains and toilets or on the ground, creating many additional contaminated sites. Such dumping has created septic tanks full of dangerous waste and chemically-contaminated drain fields, soils and surface waters.