JWI’s Environmental Forensics practice provides expertise to industry, attorneys, and government organizations in identifying how and when contamination took place, its extent and impact, and when appropriate – determining a defensible methodology for allocation of damage or damages. We typically provide this expertise by providing expert testimony or evaluating the strategy and strength of analysis/testimony from other experts.

Environmental Forensics investigations typically involve the integration of various forms of information: from historical documents and operations designs to field data, chemical/isotopic signatures, and contaminant fate models. These efforts use the best information available in developing a defensible basis for identifying sources of contamination and Potentially Responsible Parties (PRPs) from various types of contamination releases into the environment (soil, sediment, structures, water, and/or air). In addition to evaluating existing information, JWI can design, develop, and implement a sampling and analysis plan for augmenting existing data and improving the site characterization in order to make more robust forensics conclusions.