Project Overview
A diesel release ran along a curb line at a commercial facility in Ignacio, Colorado — product on hardscape, moving toward a drainage path, with the clock running.
DEKON took the call and had a crew on site and working the same afternoon. Containment went down first, then recovery, then the surfaces. The crew worked past 4:00 PM into overtime on day one rather than leaving product sitting overnight, came back the following day to finish decontamination, and manifested the waste out two days after that.
Two field days, start to final rinse. The whole job — boom, absorbent, recovery, power-wash, drums, manifest — ran on DEKON’s own crew and equipment, with no subcontractor mobilization to wait on.
Project Information
Project Type
Diesel Spill Emergency Response & Cleanup
Location
Ignacio, Colorado · commercial facility, curb line and hardscape
Response
Same-day mobilization — crew on site and working the afternoon of the call
Duration
2 field days (June 1–2, 2026), waste manifested and disposed June 4
Labor
66 field labor hours — field supervisor, equipment operator, and technicians
Equipment
Tracked skid steer · 5-yard dump trailer · heated pressure washer · crew and tool trailers — all DEKON-owned
Waste
5 CY contaminated soil and 3 × 55-gallon drums of contaminated water, non-hazardous manifest to a permitted facility
Key Challenges & DEKON’s Solutions
- Free product moving along a curb line toward a drainage path — containment could not wait for a next-day mobilization
- Release on hardscape: staining and residue remain after the liquid is recovered
- Two waste streams from one event — impacted soil and contaminated wash water
- Call came in mid-afternoon; stopping at quitting time would have left product down overnight
- Out-of-state work — Colorado, not New Mexico, with different tax treatment and no NM GRT
- Small-volume job that still requires a full manifest and documentation trail
- Same-day mobilization with absorbent boom and socks deployed along the curb before recovery began
- Mechanical recovery by skid steer and hand, followed by heated power-wash and a caustic citrus degreaser on the hardscape
- Streams segregated at the source — soil to a 5-yard dump trailer, wash water drummed into three 55-gallon open-top steel drums
- Crew worked into overtime on day one to finish containment and recovery, returning next day for decontamination
- Colorado tax treatment applied correctly on the invoice — no NM gross receipts tax billed on out-of-state work
- Full documentation package regardless of size: two field work orders, JSA, bill of lading, and non-hazardous waste manifest
Scope of Work Delivered
- Same-day emergency mobilization from the Farmington yard with crew, skid steer, and containment materials
- Containment — absorbent boom and socks deployed along the curb line to stop migration toward the drainage path
- Product recovery — 35 bags of absorbent media and absorbent pads worked and recovered, impacted soil removed by skid steer and hand to a 5-yard dump trailer
- Hardscape decontamination — heated pressure-wash with a caustic citrus degreaser to lift residual staining from curb and pavement
- Waste containerization — three 55-gallon open-top steel drums for contaminated wash water, segregated from the soil stream
- Manifested disposal of soil and drummed water to a permitted facility under a non-hazardous waste manifest
- Documentation — daily field work orders, job safety analysis, bill of lading, manifest, and a photo appendix documenting arrival through demobilization
Why This Project Demonstrates DEKON’s Capabilities
This is the job most operators actually have. Not a highway closure and a regulatory file — a release on a yard, on a weekday afternoon, that needs to be contained before it reaches a drain and documented well enough that nobody revisits it.
What makes it work is being able to go the same day. A response contractor who mobilizes tomorrow is a contractor watching product spread overnight. DEKON owns the crew trucks, the skid steer, the dump trailer, and the heated washer, so the response is a dispatch decision rather than a rental queue.
The other half is documentation proportionate to the event. A two-day cleanup still generated field work orders, a JSA, a bill of lading, a manifest, and a photographed record from arrival to final curb condition — because that file is what closes the event out.
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